THIS REPORT summarizes major findings about water quality in the Puget Sound Basin
that emerged from an assessment conducted between 1996 and 1998 by the US Geological …

Erosion control practices instituted since the late 1970s have reduced erosion from cropland
in the Palouse River Basin by at least 10 percent, according to model results. If monitoring …

This report contains the major findings of a 1999? 2000 assessment of water quality in
streams and drains in the Yakima River Basin. It is one of a series of reports by the NAWQA …

Study Design The study was designed to detect the largest number of pesticides likely to be
transported in surface runoff to urban streams. Sampling occurred when pesticide …

Yields of suspended sediment from watersheds in the Quincy and Pasco Basins of Washington
State have been reduced by the use of sprinkler irrigation on cropland previously in …

In 1986, the Yakima River Basin was selected as one of four surface-water pilot studies as
part of the US Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. Full …

More data are needed to further improve understanding of water quality in the Central Columbia
Plateau. Little is known about surface-water quality outside of the irrigation project and …

The objectives of this report are (1) to estimate the relative contributions of point and nonpoint
inputs of nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients in the basin;(2) to assess spatial and temporal …

… The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research,
authorship, and/or publication of this article: Drs James and Stanford are employees and …

Prior to 1950, the 2,000-mile semiarid Pasco basin of Washington State was dominated by
dryland farming. Large-scale irrigation with imported surface water has since transformed the …