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National Water-Quality Assessment Program

Discrete and Continuous Water-Quality Data and Hydrologic Parameters from Seven Agricultural Watersheds in the United States, 2002?09

Data Series 603

U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey

Discrete and Continuous Water-Quality Data and Hydrologic Parameters from Seven Agricultural Watersheds in the United States, 2002?09

By Kathleen A. McCarthy, David C. Lampe, and Paul D. Capel

National Water-Quality Assessment Program

Data Series 603

U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Department of the Interior KEN SALAZAR, Secretary U.S. Geological Survey Marcia K. McNutt, Director

U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2011

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Suggested citation: McCarthy, K.A., Lampe, D.C., and Capel, P.D., 2011, Discrete and continuous water-quality data and hydrologic parameters from seven agricultural watersheds in the United States, 2002?09: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 603, 10 p.

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Contents

Abstract ...........................................................................................................................................................1 Introduction.....................................................................................................................................................1 Study Sites and Environmental Setting.......................................................................................................1 Sample Collection, Analytical Methods, and Quality Assurance...........................................................1 Water-Quality and Hydrologic Data.............................................................................................................2

Discrete Water-Quality Data................................................................................................................2 Continuous Hydrologic and Water-Quality Data..............................................................................2 References Cited............................................................................................................................................7 Appendix 1. Discrete Water-Quality Data Collected During the U.S. Geological Survey

National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Agricultural Chemicals Team Studies.......9 Appendix 2. Quality Assurance Data Collected During the U.S. Geological Survey National

Water-Quality Assessment Program's Agricultural Chemicals Team Studies........................9 Appendixes 3?9. Continuous Hydrologic and Water-Quality Data Collected During the U.S.

Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Agricultural Chemicals Team Studies..................................................................................................................9 Appendix 3. Merced River Basin, California.....................................................................................9 Appendix 4. Sugar Creek Basin, Indiana...........................................................................................9 Appendix 5. South Fork Iowa River Basin, Iowa...............................................................................9 Appendix 6. Morgan Creek Basin, Maryland..................................................................................10 Appendix 7. Bogue Phalia Basin, Mississippi.................................................................................10 Appendix 8. Maple Creek Basin, Nebraska.....................................................................................10 Appendix 9. Granger Drain Basin, Washington..............................................................................10

Figures

Figure 1. Map showing location of the study areas where samples were collected............ 2

Tables

Table1. Pesticides measured during the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Agricultural Chemicals Team studies........................... 3

Table2. Pesticide transformation products measured during the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Agricultural Chemicals Team studies.................................................................................... 4

Table3. Nutrients measured during the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Agricultural Chemicals Team studies........................... 5

Table4. Major ions, field parameters, organic carbon, and physical parameters measured during the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Agricultural Chemicals Team studies........................... 5

Table5. Environmental compartments with continuous data measured during the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Agricultural Chemicals Team studies..................................................................... 6

Table6. Parameters measured using continuous data-collection monitors..................... 7

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