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Water Quality

The chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water, usually in respect to its suitability for a particular purpose.

Water-Qualilty Publications
Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5272 Assessment of water-quality conditions in Fivemile Creek in the vicinity of the Fivemile Creek Greenway, Jefferson County, Alabama, 2003-2005, by Amy C. Gill, John A. Robinson, Jymalyn E. Redmond, and Michael W. Bradley
Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5266 Occurrence of Selected Pharmaceuticals, Personal-Care Products, Organic Wastewater Compounds, and Pesticides in the Lower Tallapoosa River Watershed near Montgomery, Alabama, 2005, by Carolyn J. Oblinger, Amy C. Gill, Ann K. McPherson, Michael T. Meyer, and Edward T. Furlong
Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5171 Water Quality and Simulated Effects of Urban Land-Use Change in J.B. Converse Lake Watershed, Mobile County, Alabama, 1990-2003, by Amy C. Gill, Ann K. McPherson, and Richard S. Moreland
Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5302 Assessment of Water Quality, Benthic Invertebrates, and Periphyton in the Threemile Creek Basin, Mobile, Alabama, 1999-2003, by Ann K. McPherson, Amy C. Gill, and Richard S. Moreland
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4182 Comparison between agricultural and urban ground-water quality in the Mobile River Basin, 1999-2001, by J.L. Robinson
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4181 Shallow ground-water quality in agricultural areas of northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee, 2000-2001, by James A. Kingsbury
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4182 Investigation of water quality and aquatic-community structure in Village and Valley Creeks, City of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, 2000 - 01, by A.K. McPherson, T.A. Abrahamsen, and C.A. Journey
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4162 Environmental setting and water-quality issues of the Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee, by G.C. Johnson, R.E. Kidd, C.A. Journey, Humbert Zappia, and J. Brian Atkins
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4225 Assessment of water-quality conditions in the J.B. Converse Lake Watershed, Mobile County, Alabama, 1990-98; by C.A. Journey and A.C. Gill
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4185 Water quality of the Flint River Basin, Alabama and Tennessee, 1999-2000, by A.B. Hoos, J.W. Garrett, and R.R. Knight
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4184 Occurrence and distribution of organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, and trace elements in fish tissue in the lower Tennessee River Basin, 1980-98, by R.R. Knight and J.R. Powell
Water-Resources Investigations Report 1999-4080 Environmental setting and water-quality issues in the lower Tennessee River Basin, by J.A. Kingsbury, A.B. Hoos, and M.D. Woodside
Circular 1265 Water Quality in the Nation's Streams and Aquifers - Overview of Selected Findings, 1991-2001, by Pixie A. Hamilton, Timothy L. Miller, and Donna N. Myers
Circular 1233 Water Quality in the Lower Tennessee River Basin, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Georgia, 1999-2001, by Michael D. Woodside, Anne B. Hoos, James A. Kingsbury, Jeffrey R. Powell, Rodney R. Knight, Jerry W. Garrett, Reavis L. Mitchell III, and John A. Robinson
Circular 1231 Water Quality in the Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee, 1999-2001, by J. Brian Atkins, Humbert Zappia, James L. Robinson, Ann K. McPherson, Richard S. Moreland, Douglas A. Harned, Brett F. Johnston, and John S. Harvill
Fact Sheet 100-98 National Water-Quality Assessment Program: Mobile River Basin, by J.B. Atkins
Fact Sheet 014-98 National Water-Quality Assessment Program: Lower Tennessee River Basin, by M.D. Woodside and Reavis L. Mitchell, III
Fact Sheet 092-97 Salt tolerance of southern baldcypress

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