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Optical measurements for surface water samples collected within the Neshaminy Creek basin during November 2021 Here we report optical data collected as part of a collaborative study between USGS Pennsylvania Water Science Center, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Water Mission Area Proxies Project. The optical measurements reported here were collected to aide in the characterization of water sources and mixtures and establish proxies (surrogates) for per- and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances within the Neshaminy Creek basin. Data are compiled into three tables: 1) full fluorescence spectra in vectorized format, 2) full absorbance spectra, and 3) summary file of commonly extracted optical indicators and field-based sensor arrays. Categories: Data; Tags: California, California Water Science Center, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, Organic Matter Research Lab, All tags... Sacramento, TDN, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, absorbance, environment, fDOM, fluorescence, organic matter, total dissolved nitrogen, water quality, Fewer tags Tissue-specific bioconcentration of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances by fathead minnows from contaminated groundwater at a fire-training area, Cape Cod, Massachusetts from 2019 This data release presents chemical and biological results from an investigation of the uptake of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from groundwater contaminated by fire training activities on Cape Cod, Massachusetts conducted from July to August 2019. An exposure experiment was conducted at an a PFAS contaminated site (FTA-1) near the fire training area (FTA). To assess the tissue-specific uptake characteristics of the mixture of PFAS present in the groundwater from the FTA-1 site, a 21-day mobile laboratory exposure experiment was conducted. Details for the groundwater sampling sites and well construction are presented (Table 1). The PFAS mixture concentrations and composition in groundwater and in fish... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Biotic concentration, Cape Cod, Environmental Health, Fathead minnows, Fire training area, All tags... Fish, Groundwater, Joint Base Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Military Reservation, Mobile laboratory exposure experiments, PFAS, Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, boundaries, Fewer tags Survey of major and trace elements in stormwater runoff from across the United States, 2016 to 2017 This study focuses on providing a broad-scale assessment of composition of water chemistry in urban stormwater runoff. The stormwater runoff is a source of recharge to groundwater by Green Infrastructure (GI) practices or it may become a source of recharge to groundwater to reduce stormwater volumes to surface waters or augment groundwater supply. The chemical composition of the stormwater runoff is important to understanding the potential impacts of surface water recharge to groundwater. In this study, 21 field sites were sampled for stormwater runoff during 50 storm events from 7/28/2016 through 12/8/2017. Major elements were measured by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry and trace elements... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Environmental Health, North America, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, major elements, All tags... rare earth elements, stormwater runoff chemistry, trace elements, Fewer tags Concentrations and associated method information for trace and major elements in Fourmile Creek near Ankeny, Iowa, USA during the 2011-2014 wastewater treatment facility pre/post-closure assessment The Ankeny, Iowa wastewater treatment facility (WWTF) was decommissioned in November 2013 providing a unique opportunity to characterize the impacts of WWTF discharge on water quality at the surface-water/groundwater interface in a shallow, unconfined alluvial aquifer. The Ankeny WWTF discharged treated effluent for nearly forty years into Fourmile Creek, located in Ankeny, Iowa. Dataset includes site information (Table 1), analytical methods (Table 2), piezometer water level elevations (Table 3), trace and major element concentrations collected from 2011 to 2013 before the WWTF shutdown (Table 4), and trace and major element concentration collected from 2013 to 2014 after the WWTF shutdown (Table 5). Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Ankeny, Iowa, North America, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, All tags... groundwater, hydrographic datasets, major elements, rare earth elements, surface water, trace elements, wastewater treatment facility effluent, water-quality data, Fewer tags Chemical Data From 40 Years of Monitoring a Treated-Wastewater Groundwater Plume in a Sand and Gravel Aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1978-2018 This U.S. Geological Survey data release provides a comprehensive dataset of water-quality data and sampling-site characteristics collected in 1978–2018 during a study of the effects of land disposal of treated wastewater on groundwater quality in an unconsolidated sand and gravel aquifer on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Treated sewage-derived wastewater was discharged to rapid-infiltration beds at Joint Base Cape Cod for nearly 60 years before the disposal was moved to a different location in December 1995. The discharge formed a plume of contaminated groundwater that partly discharges to a glacial kettle lake about 1,600 feet from the beds and extends about 4.5 miles toward coastal saltwater bodies at Vineyard Sound.... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Barnstable County, Bourne, Cape Cod, Falmouth, Mashpee, All tags... Massachusetts, Sandwich, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), contaminant transport, groundwater, groundwater flow, groundwater quality, hydrogeology, natural restoration, nutrient content (water), nutrient cycling, oxygen content (water), reaction transport, reactive transport, water chemistry, water quality, water sampling, water-quality restoration, Fewer tags Potomac River Watershed Accumulated Wastewater Ratios and Predicted Environmental Concentrations Treated effluent from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) contains contaminants not fully removed during the treatment process and that may pose environmental health risks when discharged to surface waters. This data release presents inputs for and results from a wastewater reuse model that used data compiled from several sources to calculate the following estimates for each non-tidal, non-coastline, initialized National Hydrography Dataset Version 2.1 (NHDPlus V2) stream segment in the Potomac River watershed: (1) accumulated wastewater as a percent of total streamflow (ACCWW%); and (2) predicted environmental concentrations (PECs, in micrograms per liter) of 69 municipal effluent-derived contaminants. ACCWW% values... Categories: Data; Tags: Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Environmental Health, Flow accumulation, Maryland, Pennsylvania, All tags... Potomac River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Washington, D.C., Wastewater, Water Quality, Water Resources, West Virginia, river reaches, streamflow, surface water quality, water chemistry, water quality, water resources, water use, Fewer tags Concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and related chemical and physical data at and near surface-water/groundwater boundaries on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2016-19 Groundwater, surface-water, sediment, and associated quality-control samples were collected downgradient from a former fire training area and wastewater infiltration beds on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and analyzed for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Samples were collected between July 2016 and February 2019 following U.S. Geological Survey protocols. Field parameters reported include temperature, pH, specific conductance, and dissolved oxygen. Samples were analyzed for chloride, bromide, nitrate, sulfate, and dissolved organic carbon. PFAS samples were extracted using offline solid phase extraction and were analyzed for 24 PFAS at Harvard University using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).... Categories: Data; Tags: Cape Cod, Eastern United States, Environmental Health, Falmouth, Hydrology, All tags... Mashpee, Massachusetts, Sandwich, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, hydrology, water chemistry, Fewer tags Major and trace element concentrations in water samples collected before and during the September 2013 Colorado South Platte River flood Record amounts of precipitation fell across the Colorado Front Range from September 9 to 16, 2013, resulting in extensive flooding in the South Platte River and its major mountain tributaries. In this study, the effects of the flood on the City of Boulder, Colorado urban hydrology system were assessed using weekly time-series sampling of 3 source waters (Boulder tap water, Boulder wastewater treatment facility effluent, and Boulder Creek water) conducted from September 20 to October 16, 2012 (n=5) and August 13 to September 30, 2013 (n=8). The effect of the flood on the South Platte River was assessed using a single basin-wide sampling of 5 main stem and 7 tributary sites from September 18 to 22, 2013. Filtered... Categories: Data; Tags: Boulder Creek, Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Colorado, Commerce City, Colorado, Fort Lupton, Colorado, All tags... Fort Morgan, Colorado, Geochemistry, Julesburg, Colorado, North America, South Platte River, South Platte River Basin, Sterling, Colorado, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, floodwater chemistry, major elements, rare earth elements, tap water, trace elements, wastewater treatment facility effluent, Fewer tags Upper Colorado River Basin Accumulated Wastewater Ratios A wastewater reuse model was applied to the Upper Colorado River basin to assess the percent of accumulated wastewater (ACCWW%) from municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in each initialized (that is, has an assigned hydrosequence number for flow-routing) National Hydrography Dataset Version 2.1 (NHDPlus V2.1) stream segment. Model inputs included (1) NHDPlus V2.1 stream geometry and hydrologic information (Table 1); (2) WWTP information, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Table 2), include average daily effluent discharges and outfall locations. Outfall locations were linked to the corresponding NHDPlus V2.1 stream segment receiving the effluent prior to calculating ACCWW%.... Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Colorado River, New Mexico, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Upper Colorado Region, Utah, Wyoming, river reaches, streamflow, surface water quality, wastewater, water chemistry, water quality, water resources, water use, Fewer tags Assessment of Endocrine Disruption in the Shenandoah River Watershed – Chemical and Biological Data from Mobile Laboratory Fish Exposures and Other Experiments Conducted during 2014, 2015, and 2016 This data release presents chemical and biological results from investigations of water quality, fish endocrine disruption, and emergent insects in the Shenandoah River Watershed (Virginia and West Virginia, USA) conducted during 2014, 2015, and 2016. Multiple sampling campaigns were conducted at sites located throughout the Shenandoah River Watershed (Table 1). The complex inorganic and organic chemical characteristics of river waters and wastewater treatment plant effluents were characterized using 21 separate analytical methods at 7 laboratories (Tables 2, 3, and 4). To assess the relations between water composition and fish endocrine disruption, 21-day mobile laboratory adult fathead minnow exposure experiments... Categories: Data; Tags: Complex chemical mixtures, Endocrine disrupting chemicals, Endocrine disruption, Fathead minnow, Mobile laboratory fish exposure experiments, All tags... North Fork Shenandoah River, Shenandoah River, Shenandoah River Watershed, South Fork Shenandoah River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Water quality, West Virginia, Fewer tags Using wildland fire tracer molecules to investigate fire frequency and vegetative combustion sources archived in the Juneau Icefield of Alaska The past decade includes some of the most extensive boreal forest fires in the historical record. Environmental drivers include warming temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, desiccation of thick organic soil layers, and increased ignition frequency from lightning. Wildland fires produce smoke aerosols that can travel thousands of kilometers, before blanketing the surfaces on which they fall, such as the Juneau Icefield of Alaska. This data release presents chemical constituent and physical particulate results from investigations of wildland fire smoke deposits and other atmospheric deposition characteristics stored in layers of ice in the Juneau Icefield of Alaska, USA (Tables 1 and 2). We drilled a series... Categories: Data; Tags: Alaska, Climatology, Environmental Health, Forestry, Glaciology, All tags... Juneau County, Juneau Icefield, Land Use Change, Lemon Creek Glacier, Llewellyn Glacier, Matthes Glacier, Taku Glaicer, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, Water Resources, atmospheric and climatic processes, atmospheric deposition (chemical & particulate), droughts, fires, glaciology, snow and ice cover, water resource management, water resources, Fewer tags Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in contaminated groundwater, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2014-2015 The U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program Cape Cod Research site has been the subject of intensive hydrological and geochemical investigations. The site has multiple sources of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), including perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), for which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued health advisories because of potential adverse human health effects. During 2014 and 2015, groundwater contamination by PFASs from a fire-training area and a wastewater treatment facility effluent infiltration beds, located on Joint Base Cape Cod, was assessed by collecting groundwater samples and sediment cores (Figures 1 and 2). The water... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Cape Cod, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, Joint Base Cape Cod, Massachusetts, All tags... North America, USGS Cape Cod Research Site, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), fire training area, groundwater, perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), wastewater infiltration beds, Fewer tags Laboratory results for anthropogenic bioactive chemicals in the Illinois Waterway upstream and downstream of the bigheaded carp population front (2015) Note: this data release has been superseded by version 2.0, available here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9V75F9Q. Two nonnative bigheaded carp species have invaded the Illinois River system and are a potential threat to the Great Lakes ecosystem. Discharges from industry, wastewater treatment plants, and urban and agricultural runoff, may be a factor contributing to the stalling of the upstream movement of the bigheaded carp population front near Illinois Waterway mile 278. In 2015, the U.S. Geological Survey collected 4 sets of water samples under a range of seasonal and hydrologic conditions from 3 locations upstream and 4 locations downstream from river mile 278 using a Lagrangian-style sampling strategy. Water... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Des Plaines River, Illinois, Illinois River, Illinois Waterway, All tags... Kankakee River, USA, Water Quality, anthropogenic bioactive chemicals, bigheaded carp, chemical mixtures, hormones, pharmaceuticals, surface water, volatile organic compounds, Fewer tags Uptake of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances by Fish, Mussel, and Passive Samplers in Mobile Laboratory Exposures using Groundwater from a Contamination Plume at a Historical Fire Training Area, Cape Cod, Massachusetts - Chemical and Biological Data from August to September 2018 This data release presents chemical and biological results from an investigation of the uptake of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from groundwater contaminated by fire training activities on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Exposure experiments were conducted from August 29 to September 21, 2018 using groundwater from a relatively uncontaminated reference site and a fire training area contaminated site. To assess the uptake characteristics of the PFAS mixtures present in the 2 groundwater sources, 21-day mobile laboratory exposure experiments were conducted using fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas), polar organic chemical integrative samplers, and polyethylene tube samplers. Freshwater mussel (Ligumia subrostrata)... Categories: Data; Tags: Abiotic concentration, Biotic concentration, Cape Cod, Environmental Health, Joint Base Cape Cod, All tags... Massachusetts, Mobile laboratory exposure experiments, Polar organic chemical integrative sampler, Polyethylene tube sampler, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, Fewer tags