Water-Quality Assessment of the Potomac River Basin:
Water-Quality and Selected Spatial Data, 1992-96
By A.L. Derosier, J.W. Brakebill, J.M. Denis, and S.K. Kelley
U.S. Geological Survey
Open-File Report 98-180
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Purpose and scope
Study design and sampling methods
Using this report
Acknowledgments
For more information
What are metadata?
Metadata presented
Additional information included
Streamwater data
Integrator streams
01603000 - North Branch Potomac River near Cumberland, MD
01608500 - South Branch Potomac River near Springfield, WV
01614500 - Conococheague Creek at Fairview, MD
01636500 - Shenandoah River at Millville, WV
01643020 - Monocacy River at Reichs Ford Bridge near Frederick, MD
01646580 - Potomac River at Chain Bridge at Washington, D.C.
Indicator streams
01608000 - South Fork South Branch Potomac River near Moorefield, WV
01621050 - Muddy Creek at Mount Clinton, VA
01638480 - Catoctin Creek at Taylorstown, VA
01639000 - Monocacy River at Bridgeport, MD
01654000 - Accotink Creek near Annandale, VA
Contaminant survey of streambed sediment and aquatic
biological tissues
Streambed sediments
Aquatic tissues
Synoptic survey of major tributaries
Synoptic surveys of subunit streams
Great Valley Carbonate
Piedmont
Triassic Lowlands
Valley and Ridge
Ground-water data
Streamwater
Field blank samples
Replicate, spike and associated environmental samples
Streambed sediment and aquatic tissues
Replicate, spike and associated environmental samples
Ground water
Field blank samples
Replicate, spike and associated environmental samples
Selected spatial data
Last modified: Thu Nov 13 14:53:48 1997