U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations in Wisconsin, 2001 Open-File Report 01-254 Poplar Coulee Creek, Vernon County USGS science for a changing world WATER-RESOURCES INVESTIGATIONS IN WISCONSIN, 2001 Compiled by D.E. Maertz and J.A. Fuller U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open-File Report 01-254 Middleton, Wisconsin 2001 Cover photo: Paul F. Juckem U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Gale A. Norton, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Charles G Groat, Director For additional information write to: Copies of this report can be purchased from: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Suvey Branch of Information Services 8505 Research Way P.O. Box 25286 Middleton, WI 53562 Denver, CO 80225-0286 Wisconsin District WRD home page: http://wi.water.usgs.gov/ Wisconsin Real-Time Water Data: http://wi.water.usgs.gov/rt-cgi/gen_tbl_pg Wisconsin Ground Water page: http://wi.water.usgs.gov/gw/ USGS home page: http://www.usgs.gov/ CONTENTS Program Basic data collection 00100 Collection of basic records-surface water.............................................................................. 1 00200 Collection of basic records-ground water ............................................................................ 10 00201 Crandon ground water........................................................................................................... 12 00302 Collection of basic records-Dane County Program.............................................................. 13 00303 Interagency methods and data comparability board (MDCB).............................................. 14 00304 Age dating ground water in atrazine prohibition areas in Wisconsin................................... 15 00351 Ground-waterage dating in the Little Plover River Basin.................................................... 16 00400 Collection of basic records-sediment................................................................................... 17 00700 Wisconsin water-use data file............................................................................................... 18 Interpretive studies 10900 Regional flood-frequency study for urban and rural streams in Wisconsin ......................... 19 12301 Menominee trace element monitoring ..................................................................................22 12303 Compilation and analysis of water-resources data near the St. Croix Reservation.............. 24 12306 Oneida Nation hydrologic investigations.............................................................................. 25 12312 Delineation of the area of ground-water contribution and the times of travel to community water systems on the Menominee Indian Reservation...............................26 13300 Lake water-quality monitoring, chemical and biological monitoring of selected lakes.....................................................................................................................27 14500 Fox River remediation ..........................................................................................................29 16400 Technical and field support for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5............................................................................................................................. 31 17202, 04 Evaluation monitoring in Wisconsin priority watersheds..................................................... 32 17213 17206 Best management practice evaluation................................................................................... 34 17207 Verification of treatment performance of the Vortechnics and storm water management filter.............................................................................................................. 36 17208 Verification of a pressurized stormwater filtration system at St. Mary's Hospital............... 37 17209 Hydrologic investigation of the Token Creek Watershed..................................................... 38 17214 Single source sites................................................................................................................. 39 17223 Impact of phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations on the biological integrity of Wisconsin streams.......................................................................................... 41 17229 Hydrology and water-quality impacts of different pasture management practices in southwestern Wisconsin................................................................................. 43 17230 Bridge scour on BalsamRoad Bridge...................................................................................45 17231 Evaluating improved street sweeping for enhancing water quality in highway runoff in Milwaukee........................................................................................... 46 17232 Quantification of solids loading from residential and commercial construction sites in Dane County, Wisconsin..................................................................47 17233 Evaluation of the effectiveness of low impact development practices................................. 48 17234 Temperature modeling of urban stormwater runoff.............................................................. 50 17235 Impacts of residential construction on stream water quality................................................. 51. 17236 Rock River phosphorus.........................................................................................................52 17237 Evaluation of street sweeping as a water-quality management tool in residential basins in Madison........................................................................................ 53 17238 Monitoring contaminant flux from a stormwater infiltration facility to ground water...................................................................................................................... 55 17301 Assessment of the hydrology and water quality of, and phosphorus loading to, Pike Lake in Washington County................................................................................. 56 17302 Miscellaneous monitoring associated with lakes.................................................................. 57 17303 Wisconsin Lakes, Green Lake tributary monitoring.............................................................58 17304 Pool 8 ground-water/surface-water study .............................................................................59 17305 Hydrologic investigation of Silver Lake............................................................................... 60 17306 Fish Lake, Dane County........................................................................................................ 61 17307 Crystal Lake, Dane County...................................................................................................62 17309 Hydrologic investigation of Powell Marsh and its relation to Dead Pike Lake....................63 17310 Lauderdale Lakes restoration monitoring............................................................................. 64 17311 Water quality of the Red Cedar Lakes in response to hydrologic and phosphorus loading............................................................................................................ 65 17313 Assessment of phosphorus loading, winter anoxia, and stage regulation of Little St. Germain Lake, Vilas County.......................................................................... 66 17314 Assessment of the water quality, hydrology, and biology of Geneva Lake.......................... 67 17317 Determination of streamflow, phosphorus, and solids loads at three sites above Sinissippi Lake in Dodge County................................................................... 68 17400 Western Lake Michigan Drainages National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA).........................................................................................................................69 17402 Upper Illinois River Basin National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA)....................... 71 17406 Technical assistance in the development of regional nutrient criteria for the Nation..................................................................................................................... 73 17500 Hydrologic and biogeochemical budgets in temperate lakes and their watersheds, Northern Wisconsin............................................................................... 74 18101 Assessment of the hydrology, water quality, and biology of Delavan Lake ........................76 18900 Dane County Regional hydrologic study.............................................................................. 78 19101 Transport of PCBs at two sites on Cedar Creek.................................................................... 79 19300 Fish Creek............................................................................................................................. 80 19700 Florida Everglades mercury cycling..................................................................................... 82 20200, 03 Mitigation of future North Fork urbanization impacts on the Pheasant Branch 20204 hydrologic system.............................................................................................................. 83 20201 Mitigation of future impacts of urbanization on the Badger Mill Creek hydrologic system.............................................................................................................. 85 20400