Coeur d' Alene Basin Water-Quality Monitoring
Conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publications
Click a link to view the corresponding USGS Publications Warehouse Citation page*. Refer to this citation page for report availability (on-line viewing, printing options, and hardcopy order form). Non-USGS publication links open the report/article (pdf).
*All links open in a new browser window. Close the new window to return to this page.
Publications resulting from this study
Donato, Mary M., Annual trace-metal load estimates and flow-weighted concentrations of cadmium, lead, and zinc in the Spokane River basin, Idaho and Washington, 1999-2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5188.
Publications related to this study
Barton, Gary J., Dissolved cadmium, zinc, and lead loads from ground-water seepage into the south fork Coeur d' Alene River system, northern Idaho, 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources-Investigations Report 2001-4274.
Beckwith, Michael A., Selected trace-element and synthetic-organic compound data for streambed sediment from the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille and Spokane River basins, Montana, Idaho, and Washington, 1998: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2002-336.
Beckwith, Michael A., Summary of surface-water-quality data collected for the northern rockies intermontane basins national water-quality assessment program in the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille and Spokane River Basins, Montana, Idaho, and Washington, Water Years 1999-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2002-472.
Clark, Gregory M., Occurrence and transport of cadmium, lead, and zinc in the Spokane River basin, Idaho and Washington, Water Years 1999-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources-Investigations Report 2002-4183.
Clark, Gregory M., Caldwell, Rodney R., Maret, Terry R., Bowers, Craig L., Dutton, DeAnn M., and Beckwith, Michael A., Water Quality in the Northern Rockies Intermontane Basins, Idaho, Montana, and Washington, 1999-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1235.
MacCoy, Dorene E. and Maret, Terry R., Ecological indicators of water quality in the Spokane River, Idaho and Washington, 1998 and 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 067-03.
Maret, T.R., and MacCoy, D.E., 2002, Fish assemblages and environmental variables associated with hard-rock mining in the Coeur d' Alene River Basin, Idaho: Published in the Transaction of the American Fisheries Society, 131:865-884 (27 MB), 2002, copyrighted 2002, and posted with permission.
Ott, Douglas S. and Clark, David W., Quantification of metal loads and assessment of metal sources in Upper Beaver Creek watershed, Shoshone County, Idaho, May and June 2002: Geological Survey Water Resources-Investigations Report 2003-4206.
Woods, Paul F., Concentrations and loads of cadmium, zinc, and lead in the main stem Coeur d'Alene River, Idaho; March, June, September, and October 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2001-34.
Woods, Paul F., Role of limnological processes in fate and transport of nitrogen and phosphorous loads delivered into Coeur d'Alene Lake and Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, and Flathead Lake, Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1682.

