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Surface Water

Open bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, or streams. All non-marine waters on the surface of the earth, including fresh, brackish, and salt water.

Surface-Water Publications
Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5163 Estimated Use of Water in Alabama in 2005, by Susan S. Hutson, Thomas M. Littlepage, Michael J. Harper, and James O. Tinney
Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5171 Simulation of Flood Profiles for Catoma Creek near Montgomery, Alabame, 2008, by K.G. Lee and T.S. Hedgecock
Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5260 Clear-Water Contraction Scour at Selected Bridge Sites in the Black Prairie Belt of the Coastal Plain in Alabama, 2006, by K.G. Lee and T.S. Hedgecock
Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5204 Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in Alabama, 2003, by T.S. Hedgecock and Toby D. Feaster
Open-File Report 2007-1030 Simulation of Flood Profiles for Fivemile Creek at Tarrant, Alabama, 2006, by K.G. Lee and T.S. Hedgecock
Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5145 Age and Source of Water in Springs Associated with the Jacksonville Thrust Fault Complex, Calhoun County, Alabama, by James Robinson
Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5135 Magnitude and Frequency of Floods on Small Rural Streams in Alabama, by T.S. Hedgecock
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4203 Occurrence and distribution of nutrients, suspended sediment, and pesticides in the Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee, 1999-2001, by A.K. McPherson, R.S. Moreland, and J.B. Atkins
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4268 Response of fish communities to cropland density and natural environmental setting in the Eastern Highland Rim Ecoregion of the lower Tennessee River Basin, Alabama and Tennessee, 1999, by J.R. Powell
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4160 Organochlorine compounds and trace elements in fish tissue and streambed sediment in the Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, 1998, by Humbert Zappia
Water-Resources Investigations Report 1995-4199 Magnitude and frequency of floods in Alabama, by J. Brian Atkins
Water-Resources Investigations Report 1993-4186 Low-flow and flow-duration charateristics of Alabama streams, by J. Brian Atkins, J. Leroy Pearman
Water-Resources Investigations Report 1988-4041 Estimating flood hydrographs and volumes for Alabama streams, by D. A. Olin, J. Brian Atkins
Circular 1139 Ground Water and Surface Water, A Single Resource, by T.S. Winter, J.W. Harvey, O.L. Franke, and W.M. Alley
Fact Sheet 017-00 Seagrasses in northern Gulf of Mexico: an ecosystem in trouble
Fact Sheet 089-97 Coastal wetlands and global change: overview
Fact Sheet 088-97 The National Flood-Frequency Program-Methods for estimating flood magnitude and frequency in rural and urban areas in Alabama

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