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PUBLICATIONS AND DATA PRODUCTS

Fact Sheets:

• Occurrence of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) in public and private wells, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
  by J.D. Ayotte, B.R. Mrazik, D.M. Argue, and F.J. McGarry
  FS2004-3119

• Arsenic Concentrations in Private Bedrock Wells in Southeastern New Hampshire
  by D.L. Montgomery, J.D. Ayotte, P.R. Carroll, and Patricia Hamlin
  FS051-03
  
• New Hampshire's Stream-gaging Network: Status and Future Needs
  by S.A. Olson
  FS-050-03

• Digital Data Set of Generalized Lithogeochemical Characteristics of Near-Surface Bedrock in the New England Coastal Basins
  by D.L. Montgomery, G.R. Robinson, Jr., J.D. Ayotte, S.M. Flanagan, and K.W. Robinson
  FS-003-02

• Use of Passive Diffusion Samplers for Monitoring Volatile Organic Compounds in Ground Water
  by P.T. Harte, M.J. Brayton, and Wayne Ives
  FS-088-01

• Simulation of the Effects of Streambed-Management Practices on Flood Levels in Vermont
  by S.A. Olson
  FS-064-00

• Monitoring the Effectiveness of Urban Best Management Practices in Improving Water Quality of Englesby Brook, Burlington, Vermont
  by Laura Medalie
  FS-114-00

• Sleepers River, Vermont-- A Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budgets Program Site
  by J.B. Shanley
  FS-166-99

• USGS Programs in Vermont
  U.S. Geological Survey
  FS-047-99

• USGS Programs in New Hampshire
  U.S. Geological Survey
  FS-030-99

• National Water-Quality Assessment Program: New England Coastal Basins
  by J.D. Ayotte and K.W. Robinson
  FS-060-97

Open-File Reports:

• Analysis of Mercury Wet-Deposition Data Collected with a Newly Designed Sampler, Boston, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area, 2002-04
  by Ann Chalmers, M.A. Nilles, D.P. Krabbenhoft, and Eric Prestbo
  OFR 2005-1368

• A Computer Program (ZONECONC) for Tabulating Concentration Statistics Using Results from the U.S. Geological Survey Modular Three-Dimensional Ground-Water Flow and Transport Model
  by P.T. Harte
  OFR 2005-1422

• Analysis of Mercury Wet-Deposition Data Collected with a Newly Designed Sampler, Boston, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area, 2002-04
  by Ann Chalmers, M.A. Nilles, D.P. Krabbenhoft, and Eric Prestbo
  OFR 2005-1368

• Results of a Monitoring Program of Continuous Water Levels and Physical Water Properties at the Operable Unit 1 Area of the Savage Municipal Well Superfund Site, Milford, New Hampshire, Water Years 2000-03
  by P.T. Harte
  OFR 2005-1303

• The New Hampshire Watershed Tool: A Geographic Information System Tool to Estimate Streamflow Statistics and Ground-Water Recharge Rates
  by S.A. Olson, R.H. Flynn, C.M. Johnston, and G.D. Tasker
  OFR 2005-1172

• Approximate Potentiometric Surface of the Bedrock Aquifer at Great Bay, Southeastern New Hampshire, 2001
  by R.M. Roseen, J.R. Degnan, L.K. Brannaka, T.P. Ballestero, and T.J. Mack
  OFR 03-278

• A Geographic Information System Tool to Solve Regression Equations and Estimate Flow-Frequency Characteristics of Vermont Streams
  by S.A. Olson, G.D. Tasker, and C.M. Johnston
  OFR 02-494

• Geophysical Characterization of Fractured Bedrock at Site 8, Former Pease Air Force Base, Newington, New Hampshire
  by T.J. Mack and J.R. Degnan
  OFR 02-279

• Fracture-Correlated Lineaments at Great Bay, Southeastern New Hampshire
  by J.R. Degnan and S.F. Clark, Jr.
  OFR 02-013

• Lithogeochemical Character of Near-Surface Bedrock in the New England Coastal Basins
  by G.R. Robinson, Jr., J.D. Ayotte, D.L. Montgomery, and L.A. DeSimone
  OFR 02-007 (metadata and dataset)

• User's Manual for the New England Water-Use Data System (NEWUDS)
  by M.A. Horn
  OFR 01-328

• Bedrock Geologic Map of the Windham Quadrangle, Rockingham and Hillsborough Counties, New Hampshire 1999
  by G.J. Walsh and S.F. Clark, Jr.
  OFR 99-0008

• Inventory of Selected Freshwater-Ecology Studies from the New England Coastal Basins (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island), 1937-97
  by Steven Tessler, J.F. Coles, and K.M. Beaulieu
  OFR 99-467

• Geohydrologic, Ground-Water Quality, and Streamflow Data for the Stratified-Drift Aquifers in the Lower Merrimack and Coastal River Basins, Southeastern New Hampshire
  by S.M. Flanagan and P.J. Stekl
  OFR 89-390

Scientific Investigations Reports (SIRs) and Water-Resources Investigations Reports (WRIRs):

• Effects of a remedial system and its operation on volatile organic compound-contaminated ground water, Operable Unit 1, Savage Municipal Well Superfund Site, Milford, New Hampshire, 1998-2004
  by P.T. Harte
  SIR 2006-5083
  
  
• Hydrogeologic framework and water quality of the Vermont Army National Guard Ethan Allen Firing Range, Northern Vermont, October 2002 through December 2003
  by S.F. Clark, Jr., Ann Chalmers, T.J. Mack, and J.C. Denner
  SIR 2005-5159
  
  
• Effects of urbanization on stream quality at selected sites in the seacoast region in New Hampshire, 2001-03
  by J.R. Deacon, S.A. Soule, and T.E. Smith
  SIR 2005-5103
  
  
• Geology and Preliminary Hydrogeologic Characterization of the Cell-House Site, Berlin, New Hampshire, 2003-04
  by J.R. Degnan, S.F. Clark Jr., P.T. Harte, and T.J. Mack
  SIR 2004-5282
  
  
• Simulation of Solute Transport of Tetrachloroethylene in Ground Water of the Glacial-Drift Aquifer at the Savage Municipal Well Superfund Site, Milford, New Hampshire, 1960-2000
  by P.T. Harte
  SIR 2004-5176
  
  
• Quality of water in the fractured-bedrock aquifer of New Hampshire
  by R.B. Moore
  SIR 2004-5093
  
  
• Generalized estimates from streamflow data of annual and seasonal ground-water-recharge rates for drainage basins in New Hampshire
  by R.H. Flynn and G.D. Tasker
  SIR 2004-5019
  
  
• Estimation of Total Nitrogen and Phosphorus in New England Streams using Spatially Referenced Regression Models
  by R.B. Moore, C.M. Johnston, K.W. Robinson, and J.R. Deacon
  SIR 2004-5012
  
  
• Water quality of selected rivers in the New England Coastal Basins in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, 1998-2000
  by K.W. Campo, S.M. Flanagan, and K.W. Robinson
  WRIR 03-4210
  
  
• Nutrient and chlorophyll relations in selected streams of the New England Coastal Basins in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, June-September 2001
  by M.L. Riskin, J.R. Deacon, M.L. Liebman and K.W. Robinson
  WRIR 03-4191
  
  
• Water-quality trends in New England rivers during the 20th century
  by K.W. Robinson, J.P. Campbell, and N.A. Jaworski
  WRIR 03-4012
  
  
• Effectiveness of the New Hampshire Stream-gaging Network in Providing Regional Streamflow Information
  by S.A. Olson
  WRIR 03-4041
  
  
• A Stream-gaging Network Analysis for the 7-Day, 10-Year Annual Low Flow in New Hampshire Streams
  by R.H. Flynn
  WRIR 03-4023
  
  
• Development of Regression Equations to Estimate Flow Durations and Low-Flow-Frequency Statistics in New Hampshire Streams
  by R.H. Flynn
  WRIR 02-4298
  
  
• Flow-Frequency Characteristics of Vermont Streams
  by S.A Olson
  WRIR 02-4238
  
  
• Trace Elements and Organic Compounds in Streambed Sediment and Fish Tissue of Coastal New England Streams, 1998-99
  by A.T. Chalmers
  WRIR 02-4179
  
  
• Geophysical Investigations of Well Fields to Characterize Fractured-Bedrock Aquifers in Southern New Hampshire
  by J.R. Degnan, R.B. Moore, and T.J. Mack
  WRIR 01-4183
  
  
• Shallow Ground-Water Quality in the Boston, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area
  by S.M. Flanagan, D.L. Montgomery, and J.D. Ayotte
  WRIR 01-4042
  
  
• Relation of Arsenic, Iron, and Manganese in Ground Water to Aquifer Type, Bedrock Lithogeochemistry, and Land Use in the New England Coastal Basins
  by J.D. Ayotte, M.G. Nielsen, G.R. Robinson, Jr., and R.B. Moore
  WRIR 99-4162
  
  
• Water-Quality Assessment of the New England Coastal Basins in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island: Environmental Settings and Implications for Water Quality and Aquatic Biota
  by S.M. Flanagan, M.G. Nielson, K.W. Robinson, and J.F. Coles
  WRIR 98-4249
  
  
• Ground-Water Resources in New Hampshire: Stratified-Drift Aquifers
  by Laura Medalie and Richard Bridge Moore
  WRIR 95-4100
  
  
• Geohydrology and Water Quality of Stratified-Drift Aquifers in the Middle Merrimack River Basin, South-Central New Hampshire
  by J.D. Ayotte and K.W. Toppin
  WRIR 92-4192
  
  
• Geohydrology and Water Quality of Stratified-Drift Aquifers in the Lower Merrimack and Coastal River Basins, Southeastern New Hampshire
  by P.J. Stekl and S.M. Flanagan
  WRIR 91-4025

Circulars:

• Water quality in the New England Coastal Basins, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, 1999-2001
  by K.W. Robinson, S.M. Flanagan, J.D. Ayotte, K.W. Campo, Ann Chalmers, J.F. Coles, and T.F. Cuffney
  Circular 1226

Professional Papers:

• The Effects of Urbanization on the Biological, Physical, and Chemical Characteristics of Coastal New England Streams
  by J.F. Coles
  PP-1695
  
  

• Factors Related to Well Yield in the Fractured-Bedrock Aquifer of New Hampshire
  by R.B. Moore, G.E. Schwarz, S.F. Clark, Jr., G.J. Walsh, and J.R. Degnan
  PP-1660

Journal Articles:

• Robinson, G.R., Jr., and Ayotte, J.D., 2006, The influence of geology and land use on arsenic in stream sediments and ground waters in New England, USA: Applied Geochemistry, v. 21 p1482-1497 [REPORT AVAILABLE ONLINE at http://nh.water.usgs.gov/Publications/2006/appgeochem.092006.pdf, 1.16MB PDF FILE].
  
  

• Harte, P.T., Konikow, L.F., and Hornberger, G.Z., 2006, Simulation of solute transport across low-permeability barrier walls: Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, v. 85, p. 247-270 [REPORT AVAILABLE ONLINE at http://nh.water.usgs.gov/Publications/2006/contamhyd2006.pdf, 1,378KB PDF FILE].
  
  

• Ayotte, J.D., Baris, D., Cantor, K.P., Colt, J., Robinson, G.R., Jr., Lubin, J.H., Karagas, M., Hoover, R.N., Fraumeni, J.F., Jr., and Silverman, D.T., 2006, Bladder cancer mortality and private well use in New England: an ecological study (PDF file, 524KB): Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, v. 60, p.168-172. [doi:10.1136/jech.2005.038620].
  
  
• Gao, Ning, Armatas, N.G., Shanley, J.B., Kamman, N.C., Miller, E.K., Keeler, G.J., and others, 2006, A mass balance assessment for mercury in Lake Champlain (PDF file, 217KB): Environmental Science and Technology, v. 40, no. 1, p. 82-89 [doi:10.1021/es050513b].
  
  
• Majer, Vladimir, Krám, Pavel, and Shanley, J.B., 2005, Rapid regional recovery from sulfate and nitrate pollution in streams of the western Czech Republic – comparison to other recovering areas (PDF file, 279KB): Environmental Pollution, v. 135, p. 17-28. [doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2004.10.009].
  
  
• Ayotte, J.D., Argue, D.M., and McGarry, F.J., 2005, Methyl tert-Butyl Ether occurrence and related factors in public and private wells in southeast New Hampshire (PDF file, 326KB): Environmental Science and Technology, (2005), v. 39, no. 1 [doi: 10.1021/es049549e.]
  
  
• Shanley, J.B., Kram, Pavel, Hruska, Jakub, and Bullen, T.D., 2004, A biogeochemical comparison of two well-buffered catchments with contrasting histories of acid deposition (PDF file, 281KB): Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, Focus, (2004), v. 4, no. 2-3, p. 325-342.
  
  
• Ayotte, J.D., Montgomery, D.L., Flanagan, S.M., and Robinson, K.W., 2003, Arsenic in groundwater in eastern New England: Occurrence, controls, and human health implications (PDF file, 497KB): Environmental Science and Technology, (2003), v. 37, no. 10 [doi: 10.1021/es026211g].
  

Abstracts:

• Wet deposition of mercury to the Boston metropolitan area
  Chalmers, Nilles, Krabbenhoft, Prestbo and Olson, 2003

• SPARROW water-quality modeling: Application of the National Hydrography dataset (.pdf)
  Johnston and Moore, 2003

• NHD Watershed: Tools and Applications
  Steeves and Johnston, 2003

• Distribution of total and methyl mercury in water, sediment, and fish tissue in New England streams
  Chalmers and Krabbenhoft, 2001

• Identifying Fracture Zones in Crystalline Bedrock Aquifers in New Hampshire
  Degnan and Moore, 2001

• Relating Well Yields to Site Characteristics in Fractured Bedrock in New Hampshire
  Moore, Schwarz, Clark, Walsh, and Degnan, 2001

• Linked Behavior of Mercury and Organic Carbon Transport in an Upland Landscape During Snowmelt 2001
  Shanley, Schuster, Reddy, Roth, Taylor, Aiken, 2001

• Arsenic and Radionuclides in Bedrock Ground Water, Eastern New England
  Ayotte, Flanagan, and Montgomery, 2001
  

Water Resource Data Reports:

Outreach/Educational Products:

Newsletters:

• Water Science Center Newsletter 2006 (PDF format, 14 MB)

• District Newsletter 2001, in HTML or PDF format (3 MB)

• District Newsletter 1999 (PDF format, 320 KB)