Donald Walter
Science and Products
Date published: October 24, 2017
Status: Active The Use of Solute-transport Methods to Estimate Time-varying Nitrogen Loading Rates to the Peconic Estuary Resulting from Wastewater and Fertilizer Inputs to Groundwater in Suffolk County, New York (Peconic Solute Transport)
Problem The Peconic Estuary of eastern Long Island, New York, is undergoing development as the region transitions from a rural area dependent on agriculture and tourism to a suburban one with a larger year-round population. The glacial and coastal-plain sediments underlying Long Island comprise a sole-source aquifer system that supplies the region’s communities with potable water. The area...
Contacts: Donald Walter, Ronald Busciolano
Date published: July 12, 2016
Cape Cod susceptible to potential effects of sea-level rise
New USGS study highlights Cape Cod's risk to rising sea levels