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Water-Resources Investigations in Wisconsin, 1993 WATER-RESOURCES INVESTIGATIONS IN WISCONSIN, 1993 By D.E. Maertz U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open-File Report 93-129 Madison, Wisconsin 1993 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Dallas L. Peck, Director For additional information write to: Copies of this report can be purchased from: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey Books and Open-File Reports Section Water Resources Division Denver Federal Center 6417 Normandy Lane P.O. Box 25425 Madison, Wisconsin 53719-1133 Denver, Colorado 80255 CONTENTS Program Page Basic data collection 001 Collection of basic records surface water.............................................................................................. 1 00101 Discharge ratings for tainter and roller gates at lock and dam no.7 on the Mississippi River at La Crosse, Wisconsin......................................................................................... 10 002 Collection of basic records ground water............................................................................................ 11 00201 Detection of faults and fractured bedrock using electromagnetic and seismic geophysical techniques, Copper Falls State Park, Mellen, Wisconsin .............................................. 13 003 Collection of basic records water quality ............................................................................................ 15 00302 Collection of basic records Dane County program..............................................................................16 00351 Reservoir sampling................................................................................................................................. 17 004 Collection of basic records sediment................................................................................................... 18 006 FEMA flood-insurance study .................................................................................................................20 007 Wisconsin water-use data file .................................................................................................................21 Interpretive studies 035 Low flow at outfall sites .........................................................................................................................22 093 Ground-water-quality appraisal of Wisconsin's aquifers .......................................................................23 109 Regional flood-frequency study for urban and rural streams in Wisconsin ...........................................24 110 Effects of acid precipitation on lakes in northern Wisconsin .................................................................27 129 Long-term effects of acid precipitation on lakes in northern Wisconsin................................................ 27 116 Effects of acid precipitation on lakes in northwestern Wisconsin ..........................................................29 123 Water resources of Wisconsin Indian reservations................................................................................. 31 133 Lake water-quality monitoring, chemical and biological monitoring of selected lakes .........................33 13301 Lake water-quality monitoring, statewide lake-stage and secchi-disc monitoring................................. 35 138 Lake assessment Fowler Lake............................................................................................................. 36 145 Occurrence, transport, and simulation of PCB's in the Lower Fox River, Wisconsin ...........................37 151 NAWQA national - relations between land- and water-management practices and contaminant effects on aquatic organisms....................................................................................39 153 Assessment of the hydrology and water quality of Powers Lake, Wisconsin ........................................40 15401 Ground-water control of the chemical evolution of Kevins Lake, Michigan .........................................41 <S 155 Hydrology and water quality at smallmouth bass streams in southwest Wisconsin ..............................42 158 Evaluation of the sand and gravel aquifer in the preglacial bedrock valley of southern Waukesha County, Wisconsin.............................................................................................. 43 159 Assessment of the hydrology and water quality of Wind Lake..............................................................44 160 Balsam Lake water and phosphorus budgets ..........................................................................................45 161 PCB and other contaminant loads to Green Bay, Lake Michigan ..........................................................46 164 Superfund remedial response support, EPA Region V ...........................................................................47 \s 166 Best management practice evaluation ....................................................................................................48 170 Hydrologic investigations of wetland restoration and creation projects ................................................49 ^ 171 Determination of sediment-reduction goals in priority watershed projects............................................ 50 ^ 17201-10 Trends in water quality and stream habitat for priority watersheds .......................................................51 v 17211 A method for analyzing the effects of storm-water discharge on pollutant concentrations in urban streams.......................................................................................................... 52 17301 Wisconsin lakes, assessment of the hydrology and phosphorus loading to Fish and Mud Lakes, Dane County, Wisconsin ..................................................................................53 17302 Wisconsin lakes, WhitewaterLake, Wisconsin......................................................................................55 17303 Wisconsin lakes, Silver Creek................................................................................................................ 57 17304 Wisconsin lakes, Devil's Lake water-budget model ..............................................................................58 17306 Wisconsin lakes, assessment of the water quality and trophic status of Park Lake, Columbia County, Wisconsin .............................................................................................................60 17308 Assessment of hydrology, trophic status, and lake-bed sediment of Stewart Lake near Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin .................................................................................................................61 174 Western Lake Michigan drainages National water-quality assessment (NAWQA)............................... 62 m 175 Hydrologic and biogeochemical budgets in temperate lakes and their watersheds, northern Wisconsin .............................................................................................................................65 s/ 176 Sources of pollutants in urban runoff..................................................................................................... 67 178 Ground-water resources at the Kettle Moraine Springs Fish Hatchery, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin ...........................................................................................................68 18001 Mercury cycling in lakes Acidic lakes .........................................................................................................................................69 Hydrologic considerations associated with the artificial acidification of Little Rock Lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin ............................................................................70 18003 Mercury accumulation, pathways, and processes ...................................................................................71 v^ 18101 Assessment of the hydrology, water quality, and biology of Delavan Lake ..........................................72 18102 Wetland retention of surface-water nutrient and suspended-sediment loads inflowing to aeutrophic lake in southeastern Wisconsin ...................................................................73 182 Hydrogeology and ground-water use and quality, Fox Cities area, Wisconsin......................................74 183 Lake Michigan tributary loading ............................................................................................................75 184 Delineation of the potentiometric divide in the sandstone aquifer between the Wolf River and Lower Fox River basins, Wisconsin .........................................................................76 v/ 185 Water-quality monitoring of industrial storm-watermnoff....................................................................77 v/ 187 Water-quality of urban storm-water runoff in Madison, Wisconsin ......................................................78 188 Concentration of radon-222 in ground water and soil gas in the vicinity of Wisconsin Indian reservations ........................................................................................................79 189 Dane County regional hydrologic study .................................................................................................80 190 Effects of microbial activity on sediment/water exchange of polychlorinated biphenyl congeners in the lower Fox River, Wisconsin .....................................................................81
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