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Sampling and analysis plan for the Koocanusa Reservoir and upper Kootenai River, Montana, water-quality monitoring program, 2021

In 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey will collect water-quality samples and environmental data from 3 sites in Koocanusa Reservoir and from 1 site in the Kootenai River. The transboundary Koocanusa Reservoir is in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, and northwestern Montana, United States, and was formed with the construction of Libby Dam on the Kootenai River 26 kilometers upstream from Libby,
Authors
Sara L. Caldwell Eldridge, Melissa A. Schaar, Chad B. Reese, Ashley M. Bussell, Thomas Chapin
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Water Resources Mission Area, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center
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Lake Koocanusa

Growth of coal mining operations in the Elk River Valley linked to increasing transport of selenium, nitrate, and sulfate into Lake Koocanusa

Lake Koocanusa (also called Koocanusa Reservoir) is a transboundary reservoir that's located in northwestern Montana and southwestern British Columbia, Canada (BC) and encompasses the headwaters of the Kootenai watershed, eventually flowing into the Columbia River. Coal mining has occurred in the Elk River watershed in British Columbia, Canada for more than 100 years. Concentrations of different...
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Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center
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Growth of coal mining operations in the Elk River Valley linked to increasing transport of selenium, nitrate, and sulfate into Lake Koocanusa

Lake Koocanusa (also called Koocanusa Reservoir) is a transboundary reservoir that's located in northwestern Montana and southwestern British Columbia, Canada (BC) and encompasses the headwaters of the Kootenai watershed, eventually flowing into the Columbia River. Coal mining has occurred in the Elk River watershed in British Columbia, Canada for more than 100 years. Concentrations of different...
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Lake Koocanusa Panorama

Assessing the impacts of mining on the Transboundary Koocanusa Reservoir

Lead Researcher: Travis Schmidt Project Manager: Melissa Schaar Water-Quality Field Lead: Chad Reese
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Water Resources Mission Area, Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center
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Assessing the impacts of mining on the Transboundary Koocanusa Reservoir

Lead Researcher: Travis Schmidt Project Manager: Melissa Schaar Water-Quality Field Lead: Chad Reese
Learn More
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Clark Fork 4

Long-Term Surface-Water Monitoring in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has collected water-quality samples from selected stream sites upstream from Missoula since 1985.
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Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center
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Long-Term Surface-Water Monitoring in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has collected water-quality samples from selected stream sites upstream from Missoula since 1985.
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Fish Tissue Analysis Results, Koocanusa Reservoir, Montana, 2021

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (MT FWP), in collaboration with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center (WY-MT WSC), Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) collected fish from the Koocanusa Reservoir in 2021 for tissue analysis. Fish tissue collected included muscle, eggs, liver, an
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Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center

Quality Assurance of Water-Level Records from Wells in the Chicot aquifer system in southwestern Louisiana Department of Natural Resources' Stategic Online Natural Resources Information System (SONRIS)

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’ (LaDNR) Strategic Online Natural Resources Information System (SONRIS) is a repository for recent (1930–present) well information that includes date of completion, well construction, geology, and water level. Well information is provided by the well drillers during the permitting process and is updated regularly by LaDNR. This data set consists of wel
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Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center

Groundwater Quality Data of the Chicot aquifer system

This dataset contains digitized groundwater quality data from 435 wells that are screened in the Chicot aquifer system. Reported values of interest included specific conductance, total dissolved solids, and chloride (Cl) concentration; other parameters and major/trace element concentrations were included if reported. Values listed as "NA" or "-9999" represent data that was not reported in the phys
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Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center

Chicot Aquifer System Extent in Southwestern Louisiana, October 2020

The Chicot aquifer system underlies an area of approximately 9,500 mi2 in southwestern Louisiana and is located within the Gulf Coastal Plain physiographic province. The region includes all or parts of 15 parishes -- Vernon, Rapides, Evangeline, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia, St. Landry, Lafayette, St. Martin, Cameron, Iberia, Vermilion, and St. Mary. The Chicot aquifer sys
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Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center

Stream habitat relations of the Yellowcheek Darter (Etheostoma moorei) among four forks of the Little Red River in Arkansas

The Yellowcheek darter (YCD), Nothonotus moorei (Robison and Buchanan 2020), is endemic to the headwater tributaries (a.k.a. ‘forks’) of Little Red River system (South Fork, SF; Middle Fork, MF; Archey Fork, AF; and Beech Fork, BF) in north central Arkansas. Large portions of critical stream habitat in each stream fork were inundated in 1964 with the construction of Greers Ferry Dam, and the YCD i
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Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
Ashley Bussell performing quality work on site
Ashley Bussell working in the field
Ashley Bussell working in the field
Ashley Bussell performing quality work on site

Ashley Bussell working in the field

Ashley Bussell working in the field

Bussell, Ashley M working on site, with Blue USGS Shirt.

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Water Resources, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
Ashley Bussell performing quality work on site

Ashley Bussell working in the field

Ashley Bussell working in the field

Bussell, Ashley M working on site, with Blue USGS Shirt.

By
Water Resources, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center

Science and Products

Sampling and analysis plan for the Koocanusa Reservoir and upper Kootenai River, Montana, water-quality monitoring program, 2021

In 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey will collect water-quality samples and environmental data from 3 sites in Koocanusa Reservoir and from 1 site in the Kootenai River. The transboundary Koocanusa Reservoir is in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, and northwestern Montana, United States, and was formed with the construction of Libby Dam on the Kootenai River 26 kilometers upstream from Libby,
Authors
Sara L. Caldwell Eldridge, Melissa A. Schaar, Chad B. Reese, Ashley M. Bussell, Thomas Chapin
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center
link
Lake Koocanusa

Growth of coal mining operations in the Elk River Valley linked to increasing transport of selenium, nitrate, and sulfate into Lake Koocanusa

Lake Koocanusa (also called Koocanusa Reservoir) is a transboundary reservoir that's located in northwestern Montana and southwestern British Columbia, Canada (BC) and encompasses the headwaters of the Kootenai watershed, eventually flowing into the Columbia River. Coal mining has occurred in the Elk River watershed in British Columbia, Canada for more than 100 years. Concentrations of different...
By
Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center
link

Growth of coal mining operations in the Elk River Valley linked to increasing transport of selenium, nitrate, and sulfate into Lake Koocanusa

Lake Koocanusa (also called Koocanusa Reservoir) is a transboundary reservoir that's located in northwestern Montana and southwestern British Columbia, Canada (BC) and encompasses the headwaters of the Kootenai watershed, eventually flowing into the Columbia River. Coal mining has occurred in the Elk River watershed in British Columbia, Canada for more than 100 years. Concentrations of different...
Learn More
link
Lake Koocanusa Panorama

Assessing the impacts of mining on the Transboundary Koocanusa Reservoir

Lead Researcher: Travis Schmidt Project Manager: Melissa Schaar Water-Quality Field Lead: Chad Reese
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center
link

Assessing the impacts of mining on the Transboundary Koocanusa Reservoir

Lead Researcher: Travis Schmidt Project Manager: Melissa Schaar Water-Quality Field Lead: Chad Reese
Learn More
link
Clark Fork 4

Long-Term Surface-Water Monitoring in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has collected water-quality samples from selected stream sites upstream from Missoula since 1985.
By
Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center
link

Long-Term Surface-Water Monitoring in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has collected water-quality samples from selected stream sites upstream from Missoula since 1985.
Learn More

Fish Tissue Analysis Results, Koocanusa Reservoir, Montana, 2021

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (MT FWP), in collaboration with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center (WY-MT WSC), Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) collected fish from the Koocanusa Reservoir in 2021 for tissue analysis. Fish tissue collected included muscle, eggs, liver, an
By
Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center

Quality Assurance of Water-Level Records from Wells in the Chicot aquifer system in southwestern Louisiana Department of Natural Resources' Stategic Online Natural Resources Information System (SONRIS)

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’ (LaDNR) Strategic Online Natural Resources Information System (SONRIS) is a repository for recent (1930–present) well information that includes date of completion, well construction, geology, and water level. Well information is provided by the well drillers during the permitting process and is updated regularly by LaDNR. This data set consists of wel
By
Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center

Groundwater Quality Data of the Chicot aquifer system

This dataset contains digitized groundwater quality data from 435 wells that are screened in the Chicot aquifer system. Reported values of interest included specific conductance, total dissolved solids, and chloride (Cl) concentration; other parameters and major/trace element concentrations were included if reported. Values listed as "NA" or "-9999" represent data that was not reported in the phys
By
Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center

Chicot Aquifer System Extent in Southwestern Louisiana, October 2020

The Chicot aquifer system underlies an area of approximately 9,500 mi2 in southwestern Louisiana and is located within the Gulf Coastal Plain physiographic province. The region includes all or parts of 15 parishes -- Vernon, Rapides, Evangeline, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia, St. Landry, Lafayette, St. Martin, Cameron, Iberia, Vermilion, and St. Mary. The Chicot aquifer sys
By
Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center

Stream habitat relations of the Yellowcheek Darter (Etheostoma moorei) among four forks of the Little Red River in Arkansas

The Yellowcheek darter (YCD), Nothonotus moorei (Robison and Buchanan 2020), is endemic to the headwater tributaries (a.k.a. ‘forks’) of Little Red River system (South Fork, SF; Middle Fork, MF; Archey Fork, AF; and Beech Fork, BF) in north central Arkansas. Large portions of critical stream habitat in each stream fork were inundated in 1964 with the construction of Greers Ferry Dam, and the YCD i
By
Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
Ashley Bussell performing quality work on site
Ashley Bussell working in the field
Ashley Bussell working in the field
Ashley Bussell performing quality work on site

Ashley Bussell working in the field

Ashley Bussell working in the field

Bussell, Ashley M working on site, with Blue USGS Shirt.

By
Water Resources, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
Ashley Bussell performing quality work on site

Ashley Bussell working in the field

Ashley Bussell working in the field

Bussell, Ashley M working on site, with Blue USGS Shirt.

By
Water Resources, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
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