New Jersey WSC Archived Projects
NAWQA is a program from the USGS that addresses the goals of that status of surface-water and groundwater, provide understanding of human impact, and to support local, state, and federal agencies with aforementioned data.
START DATE: 01-OCT-2006
END DATE: Not specified
PROJECT NUMBER: 4571CRM
STUDY OBJECTIVES:
The USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program addresses three long-term goals:
- Describe the status and trends in the quality of a large, representative part of the Nation's surface-water and groundwater resources.
- Provide an improved understanding of the primary natural factors and human activities affecting these conditions.
- Provide information that supports development and evaluation of management, regulatory, and monitoring decisions by other Federal, State, and local agencies.
The following broad objectives for NAWQA SWST:
- Characterize the concentrations of NAWQA target constituents and ecological condition in rivers and streams.
- Characterize the occurrence of pesticides, VOCs, pharmaceuticals, and wastewater indicators in stream source waters and finished drinking water.
- Characterize the concentrations of total and methyl mercury in stream sediments, water, and fish across gradients of mercury deposition and methylation potential.
- Determine long-term trends and changes in NAWQA target constituents and ecological condition in rivers and streams.
- Determine the effects of urbanization on particle-associated contaminants (metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and organochlorine compounds).
STRATEGY AND APPROACH:
The redesigned NAWQA SWST fixed-site water chemistry component includes three components: 1) sampling water chemistry every year at 12 integrator sites with watershed characteristics such that they are representative of much of the agricultural or urban characteristics of Major River Basins (MRBs) of the country, 2) sampling water chemistry at 15 indicator sites one year out of every two, and 3) sampling water chemistry at 86 sites (including both integrator and indicator sites) one year out of every four. The SWSTR Committee recommends that changes to the SWST water- chemistry fixed-site network be implemented in FY07.
DISCLAIMER: This webpage contains information about completed or inactive projects from the NJ Water Science Center. It has been created for historical purposes and may be a utility to locate published information. This page should not be considered an authoritative source. You are encouraged to contact the NJ WSC for more current information.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Pesticides in the Nation's Streams and Ground Water, 1992–2001
NAWQA is a program from the USGS that addresses the goals of that status of surface-water and groundwater, provide understanding of human impact, and to support local, state, and federal agencies with aforementioned data.
START DATE: 01-OCT-2006
END DATE: Not specified
PROJECT NUMBER: 4571CRM
STUDY OBJECTIVES:
The USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program addresses three long-term goals:
- Describe the status and trends in the quality of a large, representative part of the Nation's surface-water and groundwater resources.
- Provide an improved understanding of the primary natural factors and human activities affecting these conditions.
- Provide information that supports development and evaluation of management, regulatory, and monitoring decisions by other Federal, State, and local agencies.
The following broad objectives for NAWQA SWST:
- Characterize the concentrations of NAWQA target constituents and ecological condition in rivers and streams.
- Characterize the occurrence of pesticides, VOCs, pharmaceuticals, and wastewater indicators in stream source waters and finished drinking water.
- Characterize the concentrations of total and methyl mercury in stream sediments, water, and fish across gradients of mercury deposition and methylation potential.
- Determine long-term trends and changes in NAWQA target constituents and ecological condition in rivers and streams.
- Determine the effects of urbanization on particle-associated contaminants (metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and organochlorine compounds).
STRATEGY AND APPROACH:
The redesigned NAWQA SWST fixed-site water chemistry component includes three components: 1) sampling water chemistry every year at 12 integrator sites with watershed characteristics such that they are representative of much of the agricultural or urban characteristics of Major River Basins (MRBs) of the country, 2) sampling water chemistry at 15 indicator sites one year out of every two, and 3) sampling water chemistry at 86 sites (including both integrator and indicator sites) one year out of every four. The SWSTR Committee recommends that changes to the SWST water- chemistry fixed-site network be implemented in FY07.
DISCLAIMER: This webpage contains information about completed or inactive projects from the NJ Water Science Center. It has been created for historical purposes and may be a utility to locate published information. This page should not be considered an authoritative source. You are encouraged to contact the NJ WSC for more current information.
Below are publications associated with this project.