Publications by type - Scientific Investigations Reports
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2013
- SIR 2012-5257: Arsenic concentrations, related environmental factors, and the predicted probability of elevated arsenic in groundwater in Pennsylvania
- SIR 2013-5045: Investigations of groundwater system and simulation of regional groundwater flow for North Penn Area 7 Superfund site, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
2012
- SIR 2012-5116: A benthic-macroinvertebrate index of biotic integrity and assessment of conditions in selected streams in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1998-2009
- SIR 2012-5142: Estimation of baseline daily mean streamflows for ungaged locations on Pennsylvania streams, water years 1960--2008
- SIR 2012-5042: Groundwater quality and simulation of sources of water to wells in the Marsh Creek valley at the U.S. Geological Survey Northern Appalachian Research Laboratory, Tioga County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2012-5049: Methods for evaluating temporal groundwater quality data and results of decadal-scale changes in chloride, dissolved solids, and nitrate concentrations in groundwater in the United States, 1988-2010
- SIR 2012-5093: Nutrient and suspended-sediment trends, loads, and yields and development of an indicator of streamwater quality at nontidal sites in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, 1985-2010
- SIR 2012-5106: Occurrence of pharmaceuticals, hormones, and organic wastewater compounds in Pennsylvania waters, 2006-09
- SIR 2011-5153: Quality of Major Ion and Total Dissolved Solids Data from Groundwater Sampled by the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, 1992-2010
2011
- SIR 2010-5057: Development of flood-inundation maps for the West Branch Susquehanna River near the Borough of Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2011-5014: Distribution of trace metals at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, Berks and Chester Counties, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2011-5109: Estimated Suspended-Sediment Loads and Yields in the French and Brandywine Creek Basins, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Water Years 2008-09
- SIR 2011-5164: Pathogenic Bacteria and Microbial-Source Tracking Markers in Brandywine Creek Basin, Pennsylvania and Delaware, 2009-10
- SIR 2010-5261: Water Budgets and Groundwater Volumes for Abandoned Underground Mines in the Western Middle Anthracite Coalfield, Schuylkill, Columbia, and Northumberland Counties, Pennsylvania-- Preliminary Estimates with Identification of Data Needs
2010
- SIR 2010-5054: Changes in Groundwater Flow and Volatile Organic Compound Concentrations at the Fischer and Porter Superfund Site, Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
- SIR 2010-5195: Determination of Time-of-Travel, Dispersion Characteristics, and Oxygen Reaeration Coefficients during Low Streamflows: Lower Tacony/Frankford Creek, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2010-5212: Factors Affecting Specific-Capacity Tests and their Application--A Study of Six Low-Yielding Wells in Fractured-Bedrock Aquifers in Pennsylvania
- SIR 2010-5087: Groundwater-quality monitoring program, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1980-2008
- SIR 2010-5155: Surface-water quality and quantity, aquatic biology, stream geomorphology, and groundwater-flow simulation for National Guard Traning Center, Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, 2002-05
2009
- SIR 2009-5110: Bathymetry and Sediment-Storage Capacity Change in Three Reservoirs on the Lower Susquehanna River, 1996-2008
- SIR 2009-5101: Evaluation of Water-Chemistry and Water-Level Data at the Henderson Road Superfund Site, Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1991-2008
- SIR 2008-5240: Factors Affecting Water Quality in Selected Carbonate Aquifers in the United States, 1993-2005
- SIR 2009-5129: Groundwater-Quality Assessment, Pike County, Pennsylvania, 2007
- SIR 2009-5139: Pesticides in Ground Water in Selected Agricultural Land-Use Areas and Hydrogeologic Settings in Pennsylvania, 2003-07
- SIR 2009-5020: Physical and Vegetative Characteristics of a Newly Constructed Wetland and Modified Stream Reach, Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 2000-2006
2008
- SIR 2008-5030: Effects of Land-Use Changes and Ground-Water Withdrawals on Stream Base Flow, Pocono Creek Watershed, Monroe County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2008-5154: Geophysical Logs, Aquifer Tests, and Water Levels in Wells in and Near the North Penn Area 7 Superfund Site, Upper Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 2002-2006
- SIR 2008-5039: Modeling to Predict Escherichia coli at Presque Isle Beach 2, City of Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2008-5102: Regression Equations for Estimating Flood Flows at Selected Recurrence Intervals for Ungaged Streams in Pennsylvania
- SIR 2008-5185: Regression Method for Estimating Long-Term Mean Annual Ground-Water Recharge Rates from Base Flow in Pennsylvania
- SIR 2008-5041: Spatial Distribution of Ground-Water Recharge Estimated with a Water-Budget Method for the Jordan Creek Watershed, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
2007
- SIR 2007-5061: Effects of Historical Coal Mining and Drainage from Abandoned Mines on Streamflow and Water Quality in Newport and Nanticoke Creeks, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 1999-2000
- SIR 2006-5263: Ground-Water Resources and the Hydrologic Effects of Petroleum Occurrence and Development, Warren County, Northwestern Pennsylvania, by Theodore F. Buckwalter and Michael E. Moore
- SIR 2006-5243: Interpretation of Borehole Geophysical Logs, Aquifer-Isolation Tests, and Water-Quality Data for Sites 1, 3, and 5 at the Willow Grove Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base, Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: 2005
- SIR 2007-5085: Natural Gases in Ground Water near Tioga Junction, Tioga County, North-Central Pennsylvania-Occurrence and Use of Isotopes to Determine Origins, 2005
2006
- SIR 2006-5261: Arsenic, Boron, and Fluoride Concentrations in Ground Water in and Near Diabase Intrusions, Newark Basin, Southeastern Pennsylvania, by Lisa A. Senior and Ronald A. Sloto
- SIR 2006-5014: Borehole geophysical logging and aquifer-isolation tests conducted in well MG-1693 at North Penn Area 5 Superfund Site near Colmar, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2006-5178: Changes in Streamflow and Water Quality in Selected Nontidal Basins in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1985-2004
- SIR 2006-5141: Effects of Streambank fencing of pasture land on benthic macroinvertebrates and the quality of surface water and shallow ground water in the Big Spring Run Basin of Mill Creek watershed, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1993-2001
- SIR 2006-5125: Estimated ground-water availability in the Delaware River basin, 1997-2000
- SIR 2006-5090: Evaluation of geophysical logs and aquifer-isolation tests, Phase III, August 2002 to March 2004, Crossley Farm superfund site, Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2006-5104: Factors Affecting Occurrence and Distribution of Selected Contaminants in Ground Water From Selected Areas in the Piedmont Aquifer System, Eastern United States, 1993-2003
- SIR 2006-5216: Fecal-Indicator Bacteria in the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers and Selected Tributaries, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 2001-2005
- SIR 2006-5059: Ground-Water Quality in Unmined Areas and Near Reclaimed Surface Coal Mines in the Northern and Central Appalachian Coal Regions, Pennsylvania and West Virginia
- SIR 2006-5130: Low-flow, base-flow, and mean-flow regression equations for Pennsylvania streams
- SIR 2006-5159: Monitoring and modeling to predict Escherichia coli at Presque Isle Beach 2, City of Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2006-5042: Physical and Vegetative Characteristics of a Relocated Stream Reach, Constructed Wetland, and Riparian Buffer, Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 2000-04
- SIR 2006-5244: Selected Streamflow Statistics and Regression Equations for Predicting Statistics at Stream Locations in Monroe County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2006-5167: Simulation of ground-water flow and areas contributing recharge to extraction wells at the Drake Chemical Superfund Site, City of Lock Haven and Castanea Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania
2005
- SIR 2005-5038: Comparison of methods for estimating ground-water recharge and base flow at a small watershed underlain by fractured bedrock in the Eastern United States
- SIR 2005-5147: Development of regional curves relating bankfull-channel geometry and discharge to drainage area for streams in Pennsylvania and selected areas of Maryland
- SIR 2005-5169: Drought-sensitive aquifer settings in southeastern Pennsylvania
- SIR 2005-5042: Effects of historical coal mining and drainage from abandoned mines on streamflow and water quality in Bear Creek, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania-March 1999-December 2002
- SIR 2005-5226: Effects of removing Good Hope Mill Dam on selected physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of Conodoguinet Creek, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2005-5043: Effects of spray-irrigated treated effluent on water quantity and quality, and the fate and transport of nitrogen in a small watershed, New Garden Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2005-5156: Environmental setting, water budget, and stream assessment for the Broad Run watershed, Chester County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2005-5091: Hydrogeologic setting and conceptual hydrologic model of the Spring Creek basin, Centre County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2005-5195: Hydrogeology and simulation of source areas of water to production wells in a colluvium-mantled carbonate-bedrock aquifer near Shippensburg, Cumberland and Franklin Counties, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2005-5069: Interpretation of geophysical logs, aquifer tests, and water levels in wells in and near the North Penn 7 Superfund site, Upper Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 2000-02
- SIR 2005-5039: Occurrence of fecal-indicator bacteria and protocols for identification of fecal-contamination sources in selected reaches of the West Branch Brandywine Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2005-5162: Streamflow statistics for the Paradise and Pocono Creek watersheds and selected streamflow-gaging stations on Monroe County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2005-5113: Water budgets for selected watersheds in the Delaware River Basin, eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey
2004
- SIR 2004-5259: Changes in streamflow and water quality in selected nontidal sites in the Chesapeake Bay Basin, 1985-2003
- SIR 2004-5124: Determining sources of water and contaminants to wells in a carbonate aquifer near Martinsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania, by use of geochemical indicators, analysis of anthropogenic contaminants, and simulation of ground-water flow
- SIR 2004-5291: Effects of Abandoned Coal-Mine Drainage on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Mahanoy Creek Basin, Schuylkill, Columbia, and Northumberland Counties, Pennsylvania, 2001
- SIR 2004-5193: Evaluation of borehole geophysicallLogs at the Sharon Steel Farrell Works Superfund site, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
- SIR 2004-5009: Fecal-indicator bacteria in the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July-September 2001

