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USGS scientists processing samples of combined sewer overflow water collected after a storm.

USGS scientists processing samples of combined sewer overflow water

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video thumbnail: Urban stream restoration and combined sewer overflows, Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin

Urban stream restoration and combined sewer overflows, Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin

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USGS Nebraska Water Science Center scientist preparing water-quality samples

Missouri River Water-Quality Monitoring in Relation to Combined Sewer Overflow Systems near Omaha, Nebraska

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Combined sewer overflows: an environmental source of hormones and wastewater micropollutants

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Effects of combined-sewer overflows and urban runoff on the water quality of Fall Creek, Indianapolis, Indiana

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Water Quality of Combined Sewer Overflows, Stormwater, and Streams, Omaha, Nebraska, 2006-07

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Human Bacteroides and total coliforms as indicators of recent combined sewer overflows and rain events in urban creeks

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Wastewater effluent, combined sewer overflows, and other sources of organic compounds to Lake Champlain

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Combined-sewer overflow data and methods of sample collection for selected sites, Detroit, Michigan

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Effects of wastewater and combined sewer overflows on water quality in the Blue River basin, Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, July 1998-October 2000

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Monitoring and analysis of combined sewer overflows, Riverside and Evanston, Illinois, 1997-99

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Two risk assessments: Evaluating the use of indicator HF183 Bacteroides versus pathogen measurements for modelling recreational illness risks in an urban watershed

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Bioretention cell at the Douglas County Health Center, Nebraska

Bioretention Cell Monitoring, Douglas County, Nebraska

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Bioretention cell during rainstorm at Omaha Sewer Maintenance Facility

Bioretention Cell Monitoring, Omaha Sewer Maintenance Facility

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USGS Hydrologists survey the landscape at the outfall from the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Microbial Source Tracking

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Modeling Escherichia coli in the Missouri River near Omaha, Nebraska, 2012–16

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Measured and simulated runoff to the lower Charles River, Massachusetts, October 1999–September 2000

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Calibration of a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model for parts of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

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Escherichia coli Concentrations in the Mill Creek Watershed, Cleveland, Ohio, 2001-2004

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Modeling Escherichia coli in the Missouri River near Omaha, Nebraska, 2012-16: Model Inputs and Outputs

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map of Northeast US showing antibiotic resistance genes and their proximity of outfalls

USGS SCoRR Project: Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Microbial Communities in Soils and Sediments of the United States

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A decade of monitoring micropollutants in urban wet-weather flows: What did we learn?

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Evidence that watershed nutrient management practices effectively reduce estrogens in environmental waters

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Assessment of fecal contamination sources to Alley Creek, Queens County, New York, August 2020–June 2021

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Circulation, mixing, and transport in nearshore Lake Erie in the vicinity of Villa Angela Beach and Euclid Creek, Cleveland, Ohio, June 10–12, 2019, and August 19–21, 2019

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Assessment of fecal contamination sources to Alley Creek, Queens County, New York: Results from a sediment resuspension experiment, thermal imagery, and additional sample collection, 2020-2021

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Use of high-throughput screening results to prioritize chemicals for potential adverse biological effects within a West Virginia Watershed

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Assessment of fecal contamination sources to Alley Creek, Queens County, New York

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Determination of wastewater compounds in whole water by continuous liquid-liquid extraction and capillary-column gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

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Methods of analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory--Determination of wastewater compounds by polystyrene-divinylbenzene solid-phase extraction and capillary-column gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

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