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Summary

Land, Larry F., Moring, J. Bruce, Van Metre, Peter C., Reutter, David C., Mahler, Barbara J., Shipp, Allison A., and Ulery, Randy L., 1998, Water quality in the Trinity River Basin, Texas, 1992-95: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1171, 39 p. HTML and PDF

Overview and Review

Land, Larry F., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the Trinity River Basin, Texas--Data collection, 1992-95: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 090-95, 2 p. HTML Version

Land, L.F., 1991, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--The Trinity River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-158, 2 p.

Ulery, R.L., 1995, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--Pesticides in the Trinity River Basin Study Unit, Texas, 1968-91: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 088-95, 2 p. HTML Version

Ulery, Randy L., Van Metre, Peter C., and Crossfield, Allison S., 1993, Trinity River Basin Texas: Water Resources Bulletin July/August 1993, vol. 29, no. 4, p. 685-711. (Reprinted 1993, U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA), American Water Resources Association Monograph Series No. 19.) PDF File (text only)

Ulery, R.L., and Brown, M.F., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the Trinity River Basin, Texas--Review and analysis of available pesticide information, 1968-91: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4218, 88 p. PDF File

Van Metre, Peter C., and Reutter, David C., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the Trinity River Basin, Texas--Analysis of available information on nutrients and suspended sediments, 1974-91: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4086, 71 p. PDF File

Biology

Moring, J. Bruce, 1997, Occurrence and distribution of organochlorine compounds in biological tissue and bed sediment from streams in the Trinity River Basin, Texas, 1992-93: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4057, 19 p. PDF File

Moring, J.Bruce, and Rose, Donna R., 1997, Occurrence and concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in semipermeable membrane devices and clams in three urban streams of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, Texas: Chemosphere, vol. 34, no. 3, p. 551-566.

Ground Water

Reutter, David C., 1996, National water-quality assessment of the Trinity River Basin, Texas--Well and water-quality data from the outcrop of Woodbine aquifer in urban Tarrant County, 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-413, 32 p.  Abstract or  PDF File

Surface Water

Bradbury, J.P., and Van Metre, P.C., 1997, A land-use and water-quality history of White Rock Lake Reservoir, Dallas, Texas, based on a sediment core: Journal of Paleolimnology, vol. 17, p. 227-237. (also listed under National Synthesis--Water-Quality Trends) Abstract 

Brown, Mariann F., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the Trinity River Basin, Texas--Pesticides in a suburban watershed, Arlington, 1993-94: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 159-95, 4 p. PDF File

Brown, M.F., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Trinity River Basin, Texas--Pesticides in a coastal prairie agricultural area, 1994-95: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-124, 6p.  Abstract or PDF File

Land, L.F., and Brown, M.F., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Trinity River Basin, Texas--Pesticides in streams draining an urban and an agricultural area, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4114, 22 p.  Abstract or PDF File

Land, Larry F., 1996, Nutrients in two coastal prairie streams draining agricultural areas, 1994-95: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-558, 4 p. PDF File

Land, L.F., and Shipp, A.A., 1996, Nutrients in streams draining an agricultural and an urban area, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-322, 6p. Abstract or PDF File

Land, L.F., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Trinity River Basin, Texas--Pesticides in urban and agricultural streams, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-178-96, 2 p.

Land, L.F., 1997, Water-quality assessment of the Trinity River Basin, Texas--Nutrients and pesticides in the watersheds of Richland and Chambers Creeks, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4132, 23 p. PDF File

Moring, J. Bruce, 1996, Occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban streams as assessed using semipermeable membrane devices, Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 081-96, 2 p.

Shipp, Allison A., 1995, Water-quality assessment in the Trinity River Basin, Texas--Pesticide occurrence in streams, winter and spring 1994: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 160-95, 2 p. HTML Version

Shipp, Allison A., 1995, Water-quality assessment in the Trinity River Basin, Texas, nutrients concentrations in streams winter and spring 1994: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 231-95, 2 p.

U.S. Geological Survey, 1995, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--Summary of pesticide data collected on East Fork Double Bayou, near Anahuac, Texas, March to September 1994: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 140-95, 2 p.

U.S. Geological Survey, 1995, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--Summary of pesticide data collected on Whites Bayou near Anahuac, Texas, March to September 1994: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 141-95, p 2.

U.S. Geological Survey, 1995, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--Summary of pesticide data collected on West Prong Old River near Dayton, Texas, March to September 1994: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 142-95 2 p.

Van Metre, P.C., Land, L.F., and Braun, C.L., 1996, Water-quality trends using sediment cores from White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-217-96, 4 p. (also listed under National Synthesis--Water-Quality Trends) PDF File

Van Metre, P.C.,and Callender, E., 1996, Identifying water-quality trends in the Trinity River, Texas, USA, 1969-1992, using sediment cores from Lake Livingston: Environmental Geology, vol. 28, no.4, p.190-200. (also listed under National Synthesis--Water-Quality Trends) Abstract

Van Metre, P.C., and Callender, E., 1997, Water-quality trends in White Rock Creek Basin from 1912-94 identified sediment cores from White Rock Lake reservoir, Dallas, Texas: Journal of Paleolimnology, vol. 17, p. 239-249. (also listed under National Synthesis--Trace Elements) Abstract