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Selected USGS Reports on Occurrence and Distribution of Contaminants in Drinking Water (2/28/2005)

 

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Arsenic
 

Focazio, M.J., Welch, A.H., Watkins, S.A., Helsel, D.R., and Horn, M.A., 2000, A retrospective analysis on the occurrence of arsenic in ground-water resources of the United States and limitations in drinking-water-supply  characterizations: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources  Investigations Report 99-4279, 21 p.

Montgomery, D.L., Ayotte, J.D., Carroll, P.R., Hamilton, P., 2003, Arsenic concentrations in private bedrock wells in southeastern New Hampshire: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 0051-03, 6 p.

Ryker, S.J., 2003, Arsenic in ground water used for drinking water in the United States in Welch, A.H., and Stollenwerk, K.G., eds., Arsenic in Ground Water: Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 165-178.

Warner, K.L., 2001, Arsenic in glacial drift aquifers and the implication for drinking water; lower Illinois River basin: Ground Water, v. 39, no. 3, p. 433-442.

Warner, K.L., Martin Jr., A., and Arnold, T.L., 2003, Arsenic in Illinois ground water; community and private supplies: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 03-4103, 12 p.

Disinfection-By-Products
 

Crepeau, K.L., Fram, M.S., Bush, N, 2004, Method of analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey California District Sacramento Laboratory; determination of trihalomethane formation potential, method validation, and quality-control practices: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5003, 22p.

Fujii, R., Ranalli, A.J., Aiken, G.R., Bergamaschi, B.A., 1998, Dissolved organic carbon concentrations and compositions, and trihalomethane formation potentials in waters from agricultural peat soils, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California; implication for drinking-water quality: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4147, 75 p.

Green, W.R., 1997, Source characterization of disinfection byproduct precursors in two Arkansas water-supply reservoirs: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 118-97.

Peterman, P.H., Orazio, C.E., and Gale, R.W., 2000, Detection of tetrabromobisphenol A and formation of brominated 13C-bisphenol A's in commercial drinking water stored in reusable polycarbonate containers [abs.]

Rostad, C., 2002, Fate of disinfection by-products in the subsurface, in Aiken, G.R., and Kuniansky, E.L., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Artificial Recharge Workshop, Sacramento, CA, April 2-4, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-0089, p. 27-30.

Speiran, G.K., 2000, Dissolved organic carbon and disinfection by-product precursors in waters of the Chickahominy River basin, Virginia, and implications for public supply: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 00-4175, 60 p.

Emerging Contaminants
 

Frick, E.A., Henderson, A.K., Moll, D.M., Furlong, E.T., and Meyer, M.T., 2001, Presence of pharmaceuticals in wastewater effluent and drinking water, metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, July-September 1999 [abs.] in Hatcher, K.J, ed., Proceedings – Georgia Water Resources Conference Athens, GA, March 26-27, 2001: Athens, GA, University of Georgia, v. 2001, p. 282.

Henderson, A.K., Moll, D.M., Frick, E.A., and Zaugg, S.D., 2001, Presence of wastewater tracers and endocrine disrupting chemicals in treated wastewater effluent and in municipal drinking water, metropolitan, Atlanta, 1999 in 2nd International Conference on Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Water, Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 9-11, 2001: National Ground Water Association, p. 110.

Lee., K.E., Barber, L.B., Furlong, E.T., Cahill, J.D., Kolpin, D.W., Meyer, M.T., Zaugg, S.D., 2004, Presence and distribution of organic wastewater compounds in wastewater, surface, ground, and drinking waters, Minnesota, 2000-02: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5138, 47 p.

Moll, D.M., Frick, E.A., Henderson, A.K., Furlong, E.T., and Meyer, M.T., 2002, Presence of pharmaceuticals in treated wastewater effluent and surface water supply systems, metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, July-September 1999 [abs.]: International Conference on Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Water, Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 9-11, 2001, v. 2, p. 82.

Herbicides & Pesticides
 

Adams, C.D., Randtke, S.J., Thurman, E.M., and Hulsey, R.A., 1990, Occurrence and treatment of atrazine and its degradation products in drinking water in Proceedings , AWWA Annual Conference, v. 1990, Annual Conference of the American Water Works Association, Cincinnati, OH, June 17-21, 1990: Denver, CO, p. 871-894.

Blomquist, J.D., Denis, J.M., Hetrick, J.A., Jones, R.D., and Birchfield, N.B., Pesticides in selected water-supply reservoirs and finished drinking water, 1999-2000; summary of results from a pilot monitoring program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0456, 65 p.

Hamilton, K.G., and Stringer, E.A., 1991, Quality of ground water used for drinking at 22 schools in Tennessee with supply systems classified as non-community, non-transient: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 91-0534, 1 sheet.

Kolpin, D.W., Starner, J.K., an Goolsby, D.A., 1998, Herbicides in ground water of the Midwest: a regional study of shallow aquifers, 1991-94: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 076-98.

Liu, S., Yen, S.T., Kolpin, D.W., 1996, Pesticides in ground water; do atrazine metabolites matter?: Water Resources Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, p. 845 - 853.

Manning, M.A., 2000, Concentrations of selected pesticides in treated and untreated drinking water from Lake Bruin, Louisiana, April-December 1999 in Ballweber, J.A. ed., Proceedings – Mississippi Water Resources Conference, Thirtieth Mississippi Water Resources Conference, Raymond, MS, April 18-19, 2000: Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute, p. 349-356.

Phillips, P.J., and Eckhardt, D.A., Smith, M.A., and Rosenmann, L., 2000, Pesticides and their metabolites in selected surface-water public supplies in New York State, 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 00-4119, 16 p.

Ryker, S.J., and Williamson, A.K., 1996, Pesticides in public supply wells of Washington State: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-122-96.

Wangsness, D.J., 2002, Human exposure to pesticides via drinking water; the missing link in International Conference on Pesticide Exposure and Health, Bethesda, MD, July 8-12, 2002: Society for Occupational and Environmental Health.

Warner, K.L., Terrio, P., King, R.B., Groschen, G., Arnold, T.L., Morrow, W.S., Friedel, M., and Harris, M.A., 2000, Potential drinking water concerns in ground and surface water in the Illinois River Basin in Illinois Water Supplies; Is the Well Running Dry? Chicago, IL, July 18-20, 2000: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, p. 12-13.

Nitrate
 

Eddy-Miller, C.A., and Gerhard, G., 1999, Results of nitrate sampling in the Torrington, Wyoming, wellhead protection area, 1994-98: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4164, 8 p.

The quality of Our Nation's waters: nutrients and pesticides: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1225.

Radionuclides
 

Focazio, M.J., Szabo, Z., Kraemer, T.F., Mullin, A.H., Barringer, T.H., and DePaul, V.T., 2001, Occurrence of selected radionuclides in ground water used for drinking water in the United States; a targeted reconnaissance survey, 1998: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4273, 40 p.

Focazio, M.J., Szabo, Z., DePaul, V.T., Kraemer, T.F., and Mullin, A.H., 2000, National occurrence of Ra-224 [abs.] in Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section, 35th Annual Meeting, New Brunswick, NJ, March 13-15, 2000: Boulder, CO, v. 32, no. 1, p. 18

Kay, R.T., 1999, Radium in ground water from public-water supplies in northern Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 0137-99, 4 p.

Landa, E.R., Miller, C.L., and Brich, R.F., 1988, Radioactive and nonradioactive solutes in drinking water from Rn-charging devices: Health Physics, v. 54, no. 1, p. 99-106.

Landmeyer, J.E., and Reuber, E.J., 2001, Reconnaissance investigation of the uranium-series radionuclide radon-222 in drinking water wells in the South Carolina Piedmont [abs.] in Adams, D.B., Burke, K.B., Hemingway, B.S., Keay, J., Yurewicz, M., compilers, U.S. Geological Survey Appalachian Regional Integrated Science Workshop, Gatlinburg, TN, Oct. 22-26, 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0406, p. 75.

Szabo, Z., and DePaul, V., 1998, Radium-226 and radium-228 in shallow ground water, southern New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-062-98, 6 p.

Volatile Organic Compounds, including MTBE
 

Clawges, R., Rowe, B., and Zogorski, J., 2001, National survey of MTBE and other VOCs in community drinking-water sources: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-064-01, 4 p.

Delzer, G.C., and Ivahnenko, T., 2003, Occurrence and temporal variability of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and other volatile organic compounds in select sources of drinking water; results of the focused survey: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 02-4084, 65 p.  

Delzer, G.C., and Ivahnenko, T., 2003, A review of literature for methyl tert-butyl ether in sources of drinking water in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0322, 16 p. 

Grady, S.J., 2003, A national survey of methyl tert-butyl ether and other volatile organic compounds in drinking-water sources; results of the random survey: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 02-4079, 85 p.

Grady, S.J., 1999, Assessment of MTBE in drinking water in 10 eastern states: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 80, no. 46, p. 420-421.

Grady, S.J., and Casey, G.D., 2001, Occurrence and distribution of methyl tert-butyl ether and other volatile organic compounds in drinking water in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, 1993-98: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4228 123 p.

Koch, B., Dale, M., Zogorski, J., Delzer, G., Grady, S., Ivahnenko, T., Clawges, R., and Tratnyek, P., 2003, Occurrence of MTBE and VOCs in drinking-water sources of the United States: Denver, Colorado, American Water Works Association Research Foundation Report #90954F, 189 p. and CD-ROM.

Mahler, B.J., Canova, M.G., and Gary, M.O., 2002, Occurrence of selected volatile organic compounds and soluble pesticides in Texas public water-supply source waters, 1999-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS 0020-02, 4 p.

Moran, M.J., Grady, S., and Zogorski, J.S., 2001, Occurrence and distribution of volatile organic compounds in drinking water supplied by community water systems in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, 1993-98: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 0089-01, 4 p.

Moran, M.J., Lapham, W.W., Rowe, B.L., and Zogorski, J.S., 2004, Volatile organic compounds in ground water from rural private wells, 1986 to 1999: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, p. 1141 - 1157.

 Moran, M.J., Lapham, W.W., Rowe, B.L., and Zogorski, J.S, 2002, Occurrence and status of volatile organic compounds in ground water from rural, untreated, self-supplied domestic wells in the United States, 1986-99: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4085, 51 p.

Moran, M.J., Zogorski, J.S., Squillace, P.J., 2004, Occurrence and implications of methyl tert-butyl ether and gasoline hydrocarbons in ground water and source water in the United States and in drinking water in 12 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, 1993-2002: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 03-4200, 26 p.

Rowe, B., Grady, S., Zogorski, J.S., Koch, B., and Tratnyek, P., 2001, Initial findings; national survey of MTBE, other ether oxygenates, and other VOCs in community drinking-water sources: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0399.

Shapiro, S.D., Busenberg, E., Focazio, M.J., and Plummer, L.N., 2004, Historical trends in occurrence and atmospheric inputs of halogenated volatile organic compounds in untreated ground water used as a source of drinking water: Science of the Total Environment, v. 321, p. 201-217.

Shapiro, S.D., Busenberg, E., Plummer, L.N., and Focazio, M.J., 2003, Data from archived chromatograms on halogenated volatile organic compounds in untreated ground water used for drinking water in the United States, 1997-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-0352, 31 p.

Shapiro, S.D., Plummer, L.N., Focazio, M.J., Busenberg, E., Kirkland, W., and Fernandez Jr., M., 2003, Occurrence of volatile organic compounds in drinking water from the United States; results from archived chromatograms and water samples, 1989-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 02-4173, 20 p.

Shelton, J.L., Burow, K.R., Belitz, K., Dubrovsky, N.M., land M., and Gronberg, J. 2001, Low-level volatile organic compounds in active public supply wells as ground-water tracers in the Los Angeles Physiographic Basin, California, 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4188, 29 p.

Squillace, P.J., and Moran, M.J., 2000, Estimating the likelihood of MTBE occurrence in drinking water supplied by ground-water sources in the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00 - 343, 10 p.  

Waterborne Pathogens & Indicators, and Algae
 

Banks,W.S.L., and Battigelli, D.A., 2002, Occurrence and distribution of microbiological contamination and enteric viruses in shallow ground water in Baltimore and Harford counties, Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 01-4216, 39 p.

Bickford, T.M., Lindsey, B.D., and Beaver, M.R., 1996, Bacteriological quality of ground water used for household supply, Lower Susquehanna River Basin, Pennsylvania and Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4212.

Davis, J.V., 2000, Microbiological quality of public-water supplies in the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system, Missouri [abs.] in Wilde, F.D., Britton, L.J., Miller, C.V.., and Kolpin, D.W., compilers, Effects of Animal Feeding Operations on Water Resources and the Environment; Technical Meeting, Fort Collins, CO, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-0204, p. 40.

Francy, D.S., Myers, D.N., Helsel, D.R., 2000, Microbiological monitoring for the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program: Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4018, 31 p.

Frick, E.A., and Gregory, M.B., 2001, Indicator-bacteria concentrations in a river with designated uses of drinking water and recreation, metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, 1999-2000; an example from a headwater Piedmont watershed [abs.] in Adams, D.B., Burke, K.B., Hemingway, B.S., Keay, J., Yurewicz, M., compilers, U.S. Geological Survey Appalachian Regional Integrated Science Workshop, Gatlinburg, TN, Oct. 22-26, 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0406, p. 115.

Sheets, C.J., and Kozar, M.D., 1997, Bacteria in water from domestic wells in fractured bedrock 
within the Kanawha-New River Basin in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina: The 
Ohio Basin Consortium For Research & Education: 13th Annual Scientific Symposium, 
November 2-4, 1997, session III, p. 3.

Standley, L.J., Kaplan, L.A., and Smith, D., 2000, Molecular tracers of organic-matter sources to drinking-water supplies [abs.] in Wilde, F.D., Britton, L.J., Miller, C.V.., and Kolpin, D.W., compilers, Effects of Animal Feeding Operations on Water Resources and the Environment; Technical Meeting, Fort Collins, CO, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-0204, p. 93.

Stoeckel, D.M., Mathes, M.V., Hyer, K.E., Hagedorn, C., Kator, H., Lukasik, J., O'Brien, T.L., Fenger, T.W., Samadpour, M., Strickler, K.M., Wiggins, B.A., 2004, Comparison of seven protocols to identify fecal contamination sources using Escherichia coli [abs.]: Environmental Science and Technology v. 38, no. 22, p. 6109-6117.

Multiple Contaminants
 

Bexfield, L.M., and Anderholm, S.K., 2002, Spatial patterns and temporal variability in water quality from City of Albuquerque drinking-water supply wells and piezometer nests, with implications for the ground-water flow system: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 01-4244, 101 p.

Bexfield, L.M., Lindberg, W.E., and Anderholm, S.K., 1999, Summary of water-quality data for City of Albuquerque drinking-water supply wells, 1988-97: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-0203, 90 p.

Clawges, R.M., Oden, T.D., and Vowinkel, E.F., 1998, Water-quality data for 90 community water supply wells in New Jersey, 1994-95: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-0625, 31 p.

Ferrari, M.J., 2002, Occurrence and distribution of selected contaminants in public drinking-water supplies in the surficial aquifer in Delaware: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0327, 62 p.

Heakin, A.J., 2000, Water quality of selected springs and public-supply wells, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 1992-97: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4063, 61 p.

Mahler, B.J., 2000, Determining the occurrence of pesticides and volatile organic compounds in public water-supply source waters in Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 0010-00, 2 p.

Mahler, B.J., Canova, M.G., and Gary, M.O., 2002, Occurrence of selected volatile organic compounds and soluble pesticides in Texas public water-supply source waters, 1999-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 0020-02, 4 p.

McCaffrey, L.P., and Willis, J.P., 1997, Distribution and origin of fluoride in rural drinking water supplies in the western Bushveld areas of South Africa [abs]. in Wanty, R.B., Marsh, S.P., and Gough, L.P., eds., 4th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry, Vail, CO, Oct. 5-10, 1997: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-0496, p. 62.

Ogle, K.M., Peterson, D.A., Spillman, B., and Padilla, R., 1999, Water quality of the Rob Roy Reservoir and Lake Owen, Albany County, and Granite Springs and Crystal Lake Reservoirs, Laramie County, Wyoming, 1997-98: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4220.

Schaap, B.D., 1998, Quality of ground water used for selected municipal water supplies in Iowa, 1982-96: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0003, 67 p.

Squillace, P.J., Scott, J.C., Moran, M.J., Nolan, B.T., and Kolpin, D.W., 2002, VOCs, pesticides, nitrate, and their mixtures in groundwater used for drinking water in the United States: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 39, no. 9, p. 1923-1930.

Stackelberg, Paul E., Kauffman, Leon J., Baehr, Arthur L., and Ayers, Mark A., 2000, Comparison of nitrate, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds in samples from monitoring and public-supply wells, Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer system, southern New Jersey: USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4123, 78 p.

Thiros, S.A., and Manning, A.H., 2004, Quality and sources of ground water used for public supply in Salt Lake Valley, Salt Lake County, Utah, 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4325, 95 p.

Warner, K.L., 2000, Analysis of nutrients, selected inorganic constituents, and trace elements in water from Illinois community-supply wells, 1984-91: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4152, 47 p.

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