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The Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Study

GENERAL

Garabedian, S.P., Coles, J.F., Grady, S.J., Trench, E.C.T., and Zimmerman, M.J., 1998, Water-quality assessment of the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins, 1991-95: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1155, 32 p. 

Grady, S.J., and Garabedian, S.P., 1991, National Water Quality Assessment Program: The Connecticut River and Long Island Coastal Rivers:  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-159, 1 sheet.

Mullaney, J.R., and Zimmerman, M.J., 1997, Nitrogen and Pesticide Concentrations in an Agricultural Basin in North-Central Connecticut:  U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4076, 13 p. (abstract)

Robinson, G.R., Jr., Peper, J.D.,  Steeves, P.A., and DeSimone, L.A., 1999, Lithogeochemical character of near-surface bedrock in the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames river basins:  Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4000, 1 CD-ROM. (abstract)

Zimmerman, M.J., Grady, S.J., Trench, E.C.T., Flanagan, S.M., and Nielsen, M.G., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames Rivers study unit: Analysis of available data on nutrients, suspended sediments, and pesticides, 1972-92: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4203, 162 p. (abstract)

SURFACE WATER

Zimmerman, M.J., 1997, Trends in nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in Southern New England streams, 1974-92: U.S. Geological Survey Water Fact Sheet 001-97, 4 p.

Zimmerman, M.J., 1998, Pesticides in Surface Water in the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins, 1992–95:  Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4247, 83 p. (abstract)

Trench, E.C.T., 2000, Nutrient sources and loads in the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River  Basins,U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 99-4236, 66 p. (abstract)

GROUND WATER

Grady, S.J., 1997, Volatile organic compounds in ground water in the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-029-97, 6 p. 

Grady, S.J., and Mullaney, J.R., 1998, Natural and human factors effecting shallow ground-water quality in surficial aquifers in the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4042, 81 p. (abstract)

Mullaney, J.R., and Grady, S.J., 1997, Hydrogeology and Water Quality of a Surficial Aquifer Underlying an Urban Area, Manchester, Connecticut:  U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4195, 40 p. (abstract) (PDF version)

SEDIMENT

Breault, R.F., and Harris, S.L., 1997, Geographical distribution and potential for adverse biological effects of selected trace elements and organic compounds for streambed sediment in the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins Study Unit, 1992-94: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4169, 24 p.

Harris, S.L., 1997, Inorganic and organic constituents and grain-size distribution in streambed sediment and ancillary data for the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins, 1992-94: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-397, 48 p. (abstract)

BIOLOGY

Coles, J.F., 1996, Organochlorine compounds and trace elements in fish tissue and ancillary data for the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins Study Unit, 1992-94: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-358, 23 p. (abstract)

Coles, J.F., 1998, Organochlorine compounds in fish tissue from the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins NAWQA Study Unit:  Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4075, 23 p. (abstract)

Coles, J.F., 1999, Length-Age Relations and PCB Content of Mature White Suckers from the Connecticut and Housatonic River Basins:  Northeastern Naturalist, 1999, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 263-275. (abstract)

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