WATER-RESOURCES INVESTIGATIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA: Programs and Activities of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1993 Compiled by Leona O. McLanahan U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-152 Lemoyne, Pennsylvania 1993 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Robert M. Hirsch, Acting Director For additional information write to: Copies of this report can be purchased from: U.S. Geological Survey Earth Science Information Center District Chief Open-File Reports Section U.S. Geological Survey, WRD Box 25286, MS 517 840 Market Street Denver Federal Center Lemoyne, Pennsylvania 17043-1586 Denver, Colorado 80225 Contents Page Message from the District Chief................................................................................................ 1 Basic mission and programs....................................................................................................... 2 U.S. Geological Survey................................................................................................... 2 Water Resources Division............................................................................................... 3 Pennsylvania District Office addresses...................................................................................... 5 Program funding and cooperation.............................................................................................. 6 Fiscal year 1993............................................................................................................... 7 Water-Dam Program..................................................................................................................9 National Water-Data Exchange (NAWDEX)............................................................................ 9 National Water-Data Storage and Retrieval System (WATSTORE)......................................... 9 Data-collection programs: PA001 Surface-water stations................................................................................................10 PA002 Ground-water stations................................................................................................11 PA003 Water-quality stations................................................................................................ 12 PA004 Sediment stations.......................................................................................................13 Hydrologic investigations: [Statewide (S); regional (R); local (L); mid-Atlantic States (M-AS)] PA006 Flood investigations (S).............................................................................................15 PA007 Program for the collection, storage, and retrieval of water-use data in Pennsylvania (S)....................................................................................................16 PA145 Effects of acid rain on the water quality of Laurel Ridge, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (L)......................................................................................17 PA183 Geophysical study of USEPA Superfund Sites in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. (USEPA Region ffl)(M-AS) .........................................................................18 PA187 Hydrology of West Valley Creek Basin, central Chester County, Pennsylvania (L)....................................................................................................19 PA 194 Hydrogeology of the mesozoic rocks of the Newark-Gettysburg B asin, northern Bucks County, Pennsylvania (L).............................................................20 PA196 Role of abandoned multi-aquifer wells in regional ground-water contamination, Bucks and Montgomery Counties, Pennsyl­ vania (L).................................................................................................................21 PA206 The effectiveness of agricultural best-management practices in improving ground-water quality in a 55-acre field site near Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (L)......................................................................22 PA207 National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program: Lower Susquehanna River Basin study unit (R)...............................................................24 PA209 Water-quality effects of special handling of pyritic, acid-forming materials at a reclaimed surface coal mine, Pennsylvania (L)...............................26 PA211 Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and triazine herbicides in the Conodoguinet Creek Basin, Pennsylvania (L).......................................................27 PA212 Hydrologic investigation of the Lake Wallenpaupack watershed (L) .......................28 PA213 Agricultural pesticides in the Conestoga River headwaters, Pequea Creek, and Mill Creek Basins, Lancaster County, Penn­ sylvania (L)............................................................................................................29 PA215 The Stonycreek River and Little Conemaugh River acid mine drainage study (L).................................................................................................................30 PA216 Ground-water quality assessment of a fractured crystalline rock aquifer system in the Piedmont Province of the Lower Delaware River Basin (L)......................................................................................................32 Contents Contents Continued Page PA217 Characterizing baseline water quality, and evaluating the cause/effect relations of the implementation of agricultural management practices on surface- and ground-water quality in the Pequea/Mill Creek watersheds (L).. ...................................................................................... .....33 PA218 Archival of regional ground-water flow models of the U.S. Geological Survey Regional Aquifer-System Analysis Program (R)... ................................ ...35 PA219 Quantification of hydrologic and sediment response during stormflow runoff in a stormflow drainage channel in the carbonate terrain of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (L) .................................................................36 PA221 Technical support of USEPA RCRA site investigations in Pennsylvania (S) .................................................................................................. ..37 PA222 Factors affecting transport of soil phosphorus to surface water (L).. ........................ 38 PA223 Hydrogeological investigation of the Stockton Formation in the vicinity of the Fischer and Porter site, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (L) ...........................................................................40 PA224 Army stormwater runoff program (L) .......................................................................41 PA225 Assessment of channel instability and evaluation of scour at selected bridges in Pennsylvania (S) ...................................................................................42 PA229 Water-management model for the Neshaminy Creek Basin, Bucks and Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania (L)..... ..................................................... ....44 Water-related information services........ ............................................................................ .......45 Recently completed projects. .................................................................................................. ..46 Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey .............................................................................48 General information ............................................................................. ..........................48 Water-resources information......... .......................................................................... .......48 Streamflow records............. .................................................................................. ..48 Ground-water records ........................................................................................... ..48 Quality-of-water records........ .......................................................................... .......48 Series of U.S. Geological Survey publications........................... ............................................ ..50 To obtain publications............................................. ................................................... ....51 Lists of publications for Pennsylvania............... ....................................................................... 52 U.S. Geological Survey water-supply papers ................................................................52 U.S. Geological Survey professional papers.......................... ...................................... ..54 U.S. Geological Survey bulletins ................................................................................. ..54 U.S. Geological Survey circulars ............................................................................... ....55 Journal of research of the U.S. Geological Survey .................................................... ....56 U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic investigations atlases ............................................56 Water-resources investigations reports .......................................................................... 57 U.S. Geological Survey open-file reports and maps ...................................................... 61 Unnumbered open-file reports. ............................................................................... .......63 Publications of