2 edition of Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1969 found in the catalog.
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1969
United States Geological Survey
Published
1974
by U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, DC
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Series | U.S. Geological Survey water-supply paper -- 2142 |
| The Physical Object | |
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| Pagination | x, 625 p. |
| Number of Pages | 625 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL20424043M |
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Passed in , the Clean Water Act was a response to the nearly unchecked dumping of pollution into our waterways. At the time, two-thirds of the country's lakes, rivers and coastal waters had. Like most areas of the United States, the source waters of the New York City supply are affected, to varying degrees, by a range of pollutants. This chapter describes water quality constituents of primary concern in the New York City drinking water supply—microbial pathogens, nitrogen, phosphorus, organic carbon compounds, sediment, and toxic.
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Quality of Surface Waters of the United States, Parts North Pacific Slope Basins, Alaska, Hawaii, and Other Pacific Areas GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER Prepared in cooperation with the States of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, U.S.
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Plumbing some 50 million water quality measurements frommonitoring sites, a recent study found that the probability that U.S. surface waters are unsafe for fishing fell by about - half of the world's population lives within km (60 miles) of the ocean and 14 of the 15 largest metropolitan areas are near coastal waters - in the U.S.
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