| Abstract: | In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a full-scale National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. The long-term goals of the NAWQA Program are to describe the status and trends in the water quality of a large part of the Nation‘s rivers and aquifers and to improve understanding of the primary natural and human factors that affect water-quality conditions. In meeting these goals, the program will produce water-quality, ecological, and geographic information that will be useful to policy makers and managers at the national, State, and local levels. A major component of the program is study-unit investigations, upon which national-level assessment activities are based. The program‘s 60 study-unit investigations are associated with principal river basins and aquifer systems throughout the Nation. Study units encompass areas from 1,200 to more than 65,000 mi2 (square miles) and incorporate about 60 to 70 percent of the Nation‘s water use and population served by public water supply. In 1991, the upper Snake River Basin was among the first 20 NAWQA study units selected for implementation. From 1991 to 1995, a high-intensity data-collection phase of the upper Snake River Basin study unit (fig. 1) was implemented and completed. Components of this phase are described in a report by Gilliom and others (1995). In 1997, a low-intensity phase of data collection began, and work continued on data analysis, report writing, and data documentation and archiving activities that began in 1996. Principal data-collection activities during the low-intensity phase will include monitoring of surface-water and ground-water quality, assessment of aquatic biological conditions, and continued compilation of environmental setting information. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 6665 |
| Citation Author: | Low, Walton H. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Idaho Water Science Center |
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| Citation LatN: | 45.01 |
| Citation LatS: | 41.00 |
| Citation LonE: | -104.05 |
| Citation LonW: | -111.06 |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 1 sheet : col. maps ; 43 x 28 cm. folded to 22 x 28 cm. col. maps ; HTML Document |
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| Citation Public Comments: | National Water Quality Assessment Program |
| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Citation Series: | Fact Sheet |
| Citation Series Code: | FS |
| Citation Series Number: | 198-96 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Activities of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program in the upper Snake River Basin, Idaho and western Wyoming, 1991-2001; 1997; FS; 198-96; Low, Walton H. |
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| Citation Year: | 1997 |
| Type: | citation/reference |
| Text: | Activities of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program in the upper Snake River Basin, Idaho and western Wyoming, 1991-2001; 1997; FS; 198-96; Low, Walton H. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/fs_198_96.jpg |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1996/0198 |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
