Bibliography of Studies of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Conducted in Urban Areas by the USGS NAWQA Program

USGS scientist preparing to take a sample from a municipal suppy well.

Studies of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)

Surface Water
Ground Water
Atmosphere

(Studies may be tabulated more than once below, if appropriate to a category)

VOCs Studies in Urban Areas:

Surface-water studies

Gellenbeck, D.J., and Anning, D.W., 2002, Occurrence and distribution of pesticides and volatile organic compounds in ground water and surface water of central Arizona Basins, 1996-98, and their relation to land use: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4144, 107 p.

Ging, Patricia B.,VanMetre, Peter C., and Callender, Edward, 1999, Bottom sediments of Lorence Creek Lake, San Antonio, Texas, reflect contaminant trends in an urbanizing watershed: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-149-99, 4 p.

Lopes, T.J., Fallon, J.D., Rutherford, D.W., and Hiatt, M.H., 2000, Volatile organic compounds in storm water from a parking lot: Journal of Environmental Engineering, Dec., p. 1137-1143.

Lopes, Thomas J. and Bender, David A., 1998, Nonpoint sources of volatile organic compounds in urban areas--Relative importance of land surfaces and air: Environmental Pollution, vol. 101 (1998), p. 221-230.

Lopes, Thomas J., and Dionne, Shannon G., 1998, A review of semivolatile and volatile organic compound in highway runoff and urban stormwater: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-409, 67 p.

Pankow, James F., Luo, Wentai, Bender, David A., Isabelle, Lorene M., Hollinsworth, Jay S., Chen, Cai, Asher, William E., and Zogorski, John S., 2003, Concentrations and co-occurrence correlations of 88 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the ambient air of 13 semi-rural to urban locations in the United States: Atmospheric Environment, v. 37, p. 5023-5046.

Pankow, James F., Thomson, Neil R., Johnson, Richard L., Baehr, Arthur L, and Zogorski, John S., 1997, The urban atmosphere as a non-point source for the transport of MTBE and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to shallow groundwater: Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 31, no. 10, 1997, p. 2821-2828.

U.S. Geological Survey, 2001, Selected findings and current perspectives on urban and agricultural water quality by the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-047-01, 2 p.

Van Metre, P.C., and Callender, E., 1997, Water-quality trends in White Rock Creek Basin from 1912-94 identified sediment cores from White Rock Lake reservoir, Dallas, Texas: Journal of Paleolimnology, vol. 17, p. 239-249.

Van Metre, P.C., and Manler, B.J., 1999, Town Lake bottom sediments: A chronicle of water-quality changes in Austin, Texas, 1960-98: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-183-99, 6 p.

Van Metre, P.C., Land, L.F., and Braun, C.L., 1996, Water-quality trends using sediment cores from White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-217-96, 4 p.

 

Ground-water studies

Flanagan, Sarah M., Montgomery, Denise L., and Ayotte, Joseph D., 2001, Shallow ground-water quality in the Boston, Massachusetts metropolitan area: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4042, 12 p.

Fong, Alison L.,2000, Water-quality assessment of part of the Upper Mississippi River Basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin--Ground-water quality in three different land-use areas, 1996-98: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4131, 37 p.

Gellenbeck, D.J., and Anning, D.W., 2002, Occurrence and distribution of pesticides and volatile organic compounds in ground water and surface water of central Arizona Basins, 1996-98, and their relation to land use: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4144, 107 p.

Gonthier, Gerald J., 2002, Quality of shallow ground water in recently developed residential and commercial areas, Memphis vicinity, Tennessee, 1997: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4294, 105 p.

Hunt, Charles D., Jr., 2004, Ground-water quality and its relation to land use on Oahu, Hawaii, 2000-01: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4305, 76 p.

Inkpen, Emily L., Tesoriero, Anthony J., Ebbert, James C., Silva, Steven R. and Sandstrom, Mark W., 2000, Ground-water quality in regional, agricultural, and urban settings in the Puget Sound Basin, Washington and British Columbia, 1996-1998: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4100, 66 p.

Kolpin, Dana W., Squillace, P.J., Barbash, J.E., Zogorski, J.S., 1997, Pesticides and volatile organic compounds in shallow urban ground water of the United States, in Chilton, J., ed., Ground water in the urban environment: A.A. Balkema, Netherlands, p. 469-474.

Lico, Michael S., 1998, Quality of ground water beneath urban and agricultural lands in Las Vegas Valley and the Carson and Truckee River Basins, Nevada--Implications for water supply: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4259, 24 p.

Moran, Michael J., Hamilton, P.A., Zygorski, J.S. 2006, Volatile organic compounds in the Nation's ground water and drinking-water supply wells; a summary: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2006-3048, 6 p.

Mullaney, John R., and Grady, Stephen J., 1997, Hydrogeology and water quality of a surficial aquifer underlying an urban area, Manchester, Connecticut: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4195, 40 p.

Neal, Edward G., and Schuster Paul F., 1996, Data on quality of shallow ground water, Las Vegas urban area, Nevada, 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-552, 1 p.

Pope, Larry M., Bruce, Breton W., Rasmussen, Patrick P., and Milligan, Chad R., 2001, Quality of shallow ground water in areas of recent residential and commercial development, Wichita, Kansas, 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4228, 67 p.

Robinson, James L., 2002, Ground-water quality beneath an urban residential and commercial area, Montgomery, Alabama, 1999-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4052, 37 p.

Robinson, James L., 2003, Comparison between agricultural and urban ground-water quality in the Mobile River Basin, 1999-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Repor 03-4182, 38 p.

Shelton, Jennifer L., Burow, Karen R., Belitz, Kenneth, Dubrovsky, Neil M., Land, Michael, and Gronberg, JoAnn, 2001, Low-level volatile organic compounds in active public supply wells as ground-water tracers in the Los Angeles physiographic basin, California, 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4188, 29 p.

Squillace, Paul J., Moran, Michael J., and Price, Curtis V., 2004, VOCs in shallow groundwater in new residential/commercial areas of the United States: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 28, no. 20, p. 5327-5338.

Squillace, Paul J., Pope, Daryll A., and Price, Curtis A., 1995, Occurrence of the gasoline additive MTBE in shallow ground water in urban agricultural areas: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 114-95, 4 p.

Thiros, Susan A., 2003, Quality and sources of shallow ground water in areas of recent residential development in Salt Lake Valley, Salt Lake County, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4028, 74 p.

Thomas, Mary Ann, 2000, The effect of residential development on ground-water quality near Detroit, Michigan: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 36, no. 5, October 2000, p. 1023-1038.

U.S. Geological Survey, 2001, Selected findings and current perspectives on urban and agricultural water quality by the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-047-01, 2 p.

Zygorski, John, S., Carter, J.M., Ivanhneneko, Tamara, Lapham, W.W., Moran, M.J., Rowe, B.L., Aquillace, P.J., and Toccalino, P.L., 2006, The quality of our Nation's water - volatile organic compounds in the Nation's ground water and drinking-water supply wells: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1292, 101 p.

 

Atmospheric studies

Pankow, James F., Luo, Wentai, Bender, David A., Isabelle, Lorene M., Hollinsworth, Jay S., Chen, Cai, Asher, William E., and Zogorski, John S., 2003, Concentrations and co-occurrence correlations of 88 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the ambient air of 13 semi-rural to urban locations in the United States: Atmospheric Environment, v. 37, p. 5023-5046.