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Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Our USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center priority is to continue the important work of the Department of the Interior and the USGS, while also maintaining the health and safety of our employees and community.  Based on guidance from the White House, the CDC, and state and local authorities, we are shifting our operations to a virtual mode and have minimal staffing

News

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USGS Office of International Programs team reconnaissance trip to Itaipu Binacional, Brazil and Paraguay

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Hydrologist Joel Groten speaks at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference

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Identifying the Sources of Mercury in Water, Sediment, and Fish Downstream of a Historical Mining Site

Publications

Groundwater residence times in glacial aquifers—A new general simulation-model approach compared to conventional inset models

Groundwater is important as a drinking-water source and for maintaining base flow in rivers, streams, and lakes. Groundwater quality can be predicted, in part, by its residence time in the subsurface, but the residence-time distribution cannot be measured directly and must be inferred from models. This report compares residence-time distributions from four areas where groundwater flow and travel t
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J. Jeffrey Starn, Leon J. Kauffman, Daniel T. Feinstein

Study design and methods of the Wells and Enteric disease Transmission (WET) Trial, a randomised controlled trial

Introduction: The burden of disease attributed to drinking water from private wells is not well characterised. The Wells and Enteric disease Transmission trial is the first randomised controlled trial to estimate the burden of disease that can be attributed to the consumption of untreated private well water. To estimate the attributable incidence of gastrointestinal illness (GI) associated with pr
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Debbie Lee, Donna Denno, Phil Tarr, Jingwei Wu, Joel P. Stokdyk, Mark A. Borchardt, Heather Murphy

New capabilities in MT3D-USGS for simulating unsaturated-zone heat transport

Changes in climate and land use will alter groundwater heat transport dynamics in the future. These changes will in turn affect watershed processes (e.g., nutrient cycling) as well as watershed characteristics (e.g., distribution and persistence of cold-water habitat). Thus, groundwater flow and heat transport models at watershed scales that can characterize and quantify thermal impacts of surfac
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Eric D. Morway, Daniel T. Feinstein, Randall J. Hunt, Richard W. Healy

Science

Monitoring of Water Resources with the Upper Sioux Community

The USGS has partnered with the Upper Sioux Community (USC) to provide information needed to better manage their water resources, especially groundwater levels and quality. USGS staff trained USC staff in groundwater level measurement and recording. Data collected by the staff are quality assured by USGS and published.
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Monitoring of Water Resources with the Upper Sioux Community

The USGS has partnered with the Upper Sioux Community (USC) to provide information needed to better manage their water resources, especially groundwater levels and quality. USGS staff trained USC staff in groundwater level measurement and recording. Data collected by the staff are quality assured by USGS and published.
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Monitoring and Analysis of Water Resources with Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

The USGS has partnered with the Fond du Lac Band in monitoring and investigations since 2006 to collect, interpret and publish information needed to manage water levels and restore wetlands for wild rice production. Initial work included a streamgage and a report describing aquifer properties. New investigations include groundwater and surface-water modelling of the St Louis River Basin.
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Monitoring and Analysis of Water Resources with Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

The USGS has partnered with the Fond du Lac Band in monitoring and investigations since 2006 to collect, interpret and publish information needed to manage water levels and restore wetlands for wild rice production. Initial work included a streamgage and a report describing aquifer properties. New investigations include groundwater and surface-water modelling of the St Louis River Basin.
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Monitoring of Water Resources with Lower Sioux Indian Community

The USGS partners with the Lower Sioux Indian Community to provide information needed to better manage their water resources, especially groundwater levels and quality. Currently, water level in one groundwater well is monitored in real time.
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Monitoring of Water Resources with Lower Sioux Indian Community

The USGS partners with the Lower Sioux Indian Community to provide information needed to better manage their water resources, especially groundwater levels and quality. Currently, water level in one groundwater well is monitored in real time.
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