Surface Water Technical Papers

This page is a compliation of technical papers related to mining and hydrology. Please contact Sarah Kurtz if you would like to add other papers to this site.

McKnight, D.M., Kimball, B.A., and Runkel, R.L. (2001): "pH dependence of iron photoreduction in a Rocky Mountain stream affected by acid mine drainage". Hydrological Processes, v. 15, p. 1979-1992.

U.S. Geological Survey, (1999): "Interim report on the scientific investigations in the Animas River watershed, Colorado to facilitate remediation decisions by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service". March 29, 2000 Meeting, Denver, Colorado

Kimball B.A., Bencala, K.E., and Besser J.M., (1999): "Synthesis of Watershed Characterization for Making Remediation Decisions ". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Nimick, David A., Stanley E. Church, Tom E. Cleasby, David L. Fey, Briant A. Kimball, Kenneth J. Leib, M. Alisa Mast, and Winfield G. Wright, (1999): "Characterization of Metals in Water and Bed Sediment in Two Watersheds Affected by Historical Mining in Montana and Colorado". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A.

Church, S.E., D.L. Fey, E.M. Brouwers, C.W. Holmes, and Robert Blair , (1999): "Determination of Pre-Mining Geochemical Conditions and Paleoecology in the Animas River Watershed, Colorado". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A.

Kimball B.A., Robert L. Runkel, Kenneth E. Bencala, and Katherine Walton-Day (1999): "Use of Tracer-Injection and Synoptic-Sampling Studies to Quantify Effects of Metal Loading from Mine Drainage". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A.

Milhous R.T., (1999): "Aquatic Physical Habitat and Hydrology in Abandoned Mined Land Studies". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Farag, A.M., Daniel F. Woodward, Don Skaar, and William G. Brumbaugh, (1999): "Characterizing the Aquatic Health in the Boulder River Watershed, Montana". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Schemel, Lawrence E., Briant A. Kimball and Kenneth E. Bencala , (1999): "Colloid Formation and the Transport of Aluminum and Iron in the Animas River Near Silverton, Colorado". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Schemel, Lawrence E., Marisa H. Cox, Briant A. Kimball, and Kenneth E. Bencala , (1999): "Partitioning of Zinc between Dissolved and Colloidal Phases in the Animas River near Silverton, Colorado". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Wright, W.G. and D. Kirk Nordstrom, (1999): "Oxygen Isotopes of Dissolved Sulfate as a Tool to Distinguish Natural and Mining-Related Dissolved Constituents". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Milhous R.T., (1999): "Aquatic Physical Habitat and Hydrology in Abandoned Mined Land Studies". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Milhous R.T., (1999): "Theory and(or) Reality: Analysis of Sulfate Mass-balance at Summitville, Colorado Poses Process Questions About the Estimation of Metal Loadings ". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Bencala, K.E. and Roderick F. Ortiz, (1999): "Aquatic Physical Habitat and Hydrology in Abandoned Mined Land Studies". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Niyogi, D.K., Diane M. McKnight, William M. Lewis, Jr., and Briant A. Kimball , (1999): "Experimental Diversion of Acid Mine Drainage and the Effects on a Headwater Stream". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Smith, K.S., Katherine Walton-Day, and James F. Ranville, (1999): "Considerations of Observational Scale when Evaluating the Effect of, and Remediation Strategies for, a Fluvial Tailings Deposit in the Upper Arkansas River Basin, Colorado". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Fuller, C.C. and Judson W. Harvey, (1999): "The Effect of Trace-Metal Reactive Uptake in the Hyporheic Zone on Reach-Scale Metal Transport in Pinal Creek, Arizona". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Marble, J.C., Timothy L. Corley, Martha H. Conklin, and Christopher C. Fuller , (1999): "Environmental Factors Affecting Oxidation of Manganese in Pinal Creek, Arizona". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Choi, J. Judson W. Harvey, and Martha H. Conklin, (1999): "Use of multi-parameter sensitivity analysis to determine relative importance of factors influencing natural attenuation of mining contaminants". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Harvey, J.W., Christopher C. Fuller, and Martha H. Conklin, (1999): "Enhanced Removal of Dissolved Manganese in Hyporheic Zones: Centimeter-Scale Causes and Kilometer-Scale Consequences". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Wagner, B.J., and Judson W. Harvey, (1999): "Evaluating the Ability of Tracer Tests to Quantify Reactive Solute Transport in Stream-Aquifer Systems". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Best, J.E., Katherine E. Geiger, and Peggy A. O'Day, (1999): "Partitioning of Trace Metals Between Contaminated Stream Waters and Manganese Oxide Minerals, Pinal Creek (AZ)". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Angeroth, Cory E., S.A. Leake, and Brian J. Wagner. (1999): "Preliminary Development of the Ground and Surface Water System in Pinal Creek Basin, Arizona". Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A

Ball, J.W., Robert L. Runkel, and D. Kirk Nordstrom, (1999): "Application of the Solute-Transport Models OTIS and OTEQ and Implications for Remediation in a Watershed Affected by Acid Mine Drainage, Cement Creek, Animas River Basin, Colorado". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A.

Runkel, R.L., Bencala, K.E., and Kimball B.A., (1999): "Modeling solute transport and geochemistry in streams and rivers using OTIS and OTEQ". Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999--Volume 1--Contamination from Hardrock Mining: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018A.

Walton-Day, K., Runkel, R.L., Kimball, B.A. and Bencala, K.E. (1999): "Application of the Solute-Transport Models OTIS and OTEQ and Implications for Remediation in a Watershed Affected by Acid Mine Drainage, Cement Creek, Animas River Basin, Colorado ". U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting Charleston South Carolina March 8-12,1999--Volume 1 of 3--Contamination From Hard-Rock Mining, Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4018A.

Harvey, J.W., and Fuller, C.C., (1998): "Effect of enhanced manganese oxidation in the hyporheic zone on basin-scale geochemical mass balance". Water Resources Research, v. 34, no. 4, p. 623-636.

Nimick, D.A., and von Guerard, P., (1998): "Science for Watershed Decisions on Abandoned Mine Lands: Review of Preliminary Results, Denver, Colorado, February 4-5, 1998 ". U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0297.

Buxton, H.T., Nimick, D.A., von Guerard, P., Church, S.E., Frazier, A.G., Gray, J.R., Lipin, B.R., March, S.P., Woodward, D.F., Kimball, B.A., Finger, S.E., Ischinger, L.S., Fordham, J.C., Power, M.S., Bunck, C.M., and Jones, J.W., (1997): "A Scienced-based, Watershed Strategy to Support Effective Remediation of Abandoned Mine Lands". Fourth International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD) May 30-June 6, 1997, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Runkel, R.L., McKnight, D.M., Bencala, K.E., and Chapra, S.C., (1996): "Reactive solute transport in streams: 2. Simulation of a pH-modification experiment". Water Resources Research, v. 32, no. 2, p. 419-430.

Church, S.E. (1996): "A watershed-scale approach to tracing metal contamination in the environment". Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres (CNTC), Metals in the Environment Workshop Report, Far Hills, Inn, Val Morin, Quebec, October 21-22, 1996.