Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Monitoring and Assessing our Nation's Water Quality |
Creator | Mallard, Gail E.; Hamilton, Pixie A. |
Subject | Water quality management; Water quality; Sediments (Geology) -- Analysis; |
Coverage | Rio Grande; Mississippi River; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Columbia River; |
Description | The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has monitored the water quality in the Rio Grande Basin as part of the redesigned National Stream Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN) since 1995 (Hooper and others, 1997). The NASQAN program was designed to characterize the concentrations and transport of sediment and selected chemical constituents found in the Nation's large rivers including the Mississippi, Colorado, and Columbia in addition to the Rio Grande. In these four basins, the USGS currently (1998)... |
Publisher | U. S. Geological Survey |
Date | 2002 |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | Mallard, Gail E.; Hamilton, Pixie A., Monitoring and Assessing our Nation's Water Quality: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 076–02, 7 p. |
Language | eng |
Rights | Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS |
Identifier | http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wwdl-er/id/174 |