Edwards Aquifer Urban Hydrology Network

Publications and References

Project Publications

2023

Occurrence of Pharmaceutical Compounds in the San Antonio Segment of the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer, South-Central Texas, June 2018-August 2020

Opsahl, S.P. and Musgrove, M.

U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5069, 31 p.

Karst Groundwater Vulnerability Determined by Modeled Age and Residence Time Tracers

Musgrove, M., Jurgens, B.C., and Opsahl, S.P.

Geophysical Research Letters v. 50, i. 18, 10 p.

2020

Effects of urbanization on water quality in the Edwards aquifer, San Antonio and Bexar County, Texas

Opsahl, S.P., Musgrove, M., and Mecum, K.E.

U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2020-3028, 4 p.

2019

Timescales of water-quality change in a karst aquifer, south-central Texas

Musgrove, M., Solder, J.E., Opsahl, S.P., and Wilson, J.T.

Journal of Hydrology X v. 4, 16 p.

2018

Water-quality observations of the San Antonio segment of the Edwards aquifer, Texas, with an emphasis on processes influencing nutrient and pesticide geochemistry and factors affecting aquifer vulnerability, 2010-16

Opsahl, S.P., Musgrove, M., Mahler, B.J., and Lambert, R.B.

U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5060, 67 p.

Water-quality data characterizing the San Antonio segment of the Edwards aquifer with an emphasis on processes influencing nutrient and pesticide concentrations and factors affecting aquifer vulnerability, 2010-2016

Opsahl, S.P., Lambert, R.B., Mahler, B.J., and Musgrove, M.

U.S. Geological Survey data release

2017

Continuous monitoring and discrete water-quality data from groundwater wells in the Edwards aquifer, Texas, 2014-15

Opsahl, S.P., Musgrove, MaryLynn, and Slattery, R.N.

U.S. Geological Survey data release

2016

New Insights into Nitrate Dynamics in a Karst Groundwater System Gained from High-Frequency Optical Sensor Measurements

Opsahl, S.P, M. Musgrove, and Slattery, R.N.

Journal of Hydrology v. 546, pp. 179-188

Source, variability, and transformation of nitrate in a regional karst aquifer: Edwards aquifer, central Texas

Musgrove, M., Opsahl, S.P., Mahler, B.J., Herrington, C., Sample, T.L., Banta, J.R.

Science of the Total Environment v. 568, pp. 457-469

2012

Quality of Surface-Water Runoff in Selected Streams in the San Antonio Segment of the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, Bexar County, Texas, 1997-2012

Opsahl, S.P.

U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 740, 20 p., 2 apps.

2010

Geochemical evolution processes and water-quality observations based on results of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program in the San Antonio segment of the Edwards aquifer, 1996-2006

Musgrove, M., Fahlquist, L., Houston, N.A., Lindgren, R.J., and Ging, P.B.

U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5129, 93 p.

2009

Description and evaluation of numerical groundwater flow models for the Edwards aquifer, south-central Texas

Lindgren, R.J., Taylor, C.J., and Houston, N.A.

U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5183, 25 p.

2006

Diffuse-flow conceptualization and simulation of the Edwards aquifer, San Antonio region, Texas

Lindgren, R.J.

U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5319, 48 p.

2004

Conceptualization and simulation of the Edwards aquifer, San Antonio region, Texas

Lindgren, R.J., Dutton, A.R., Hovorka, S.D., Worthington, S.R.H., and Painter, S.

U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5277, 143 p.

References

Musgrove, M., Fahlquist, L., Stanton, G.P., Houston, N.A., and Lindgren, R.J., 2011, Hydrogeology, chemical characteristics, and water sources and pathways in the zone of contribution of a public-supply well in San Antonio, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5146, 194 p.