Water Resources of Michigan

Ground-Water Quality Atlas of Oakland County, Michigan

US Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation 00-4120
Lansing, Michigan August 2000

By: Stephen Scranton Aichele

Long Version available in Web (HTML) format at:
http://mi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/WRIR/WRIR00-4120/WRIR00-4120LW.php

Contents

• Abstract
  
• Introduction
  
  • Purpose and Scope
    
  • Acknowledgments
    
• Study-area description - Oakland County, Michigan
  
  • Population growth and land-use change
    
  • Water supply
    
  • Surface-water resources
    
  • Surficial geology
    
  • Soils
    
  • Ground-water resources
    
  • Sites of USGS ground-water-quality sampling
    
• Ground-water quality
  
  • Sample collection and analysis
    
  • Field-measured characteristics
    
  • Inorganic chemical constituents
    
    • Nutrients
      
      • Sources
        
      • Occurrence
        
      • Potential health effects
        
    • Major ions and trace metals
      
      • Chloride
        
        • Occurrence
          
        • Potential health effects
          
      • Arsenic
        
        • Occurrence
          
        • Potential health effects
          
    • Results of time-series analyses
      
    • Results of replicate sample analysis
      
  • Summary
    
  • References cited
    
  • Appendix 1
    
  • Appendix 2
    

FIGURES
Figure 1 - 10 Maps showing:
1. Rate of population growth in Oakland County, Michigan, from 1990 through 1998
2. Principal sources of drinking water, by municipality, in Oakland County, Michigan in 1999
3. Surface-water drainage basins of Oakland County, Michigan
4. Surficial geology of Oakland County, Michigan
5. Minimum soil permeability in Oakland County, Michigan
6. Elevation of the water-table surface in Oakland County, Michigan
7. Sites of U.S. Geological Survey ground-water-quality sampling in Oakland County, Michigan
8. Nitrate distribution in Oakland County, Michigan
9. Chloride distribution in Oakland County, Michigan
10. Arsenic distribution in Oakland County, Michigan

Tables
1. Land use in Oakland County as a percentage of total county area, 1978 and 1995
2. Water-quality characteristics analyzed by the USGS National Water Quality Laboratory
3. Inorganic constituents analyzed in this study with USEPA drinking water standards
4. Summary statistics for selected inorganic constituents detected in water samples from selected wells in Oakland County

Appendix 1:
Water-quality data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in Oakland County, Michigan, 1998
Tables
1A. Index of station names with U.S. Geological Survey station identification numbers
1B. Field measurements of water-quality characteristics for ground-water samples from selected wells in Oakland County, Michigan
1C. Results of analyses for selected inorganic chemical constituents in ground-water samples from selected wells in Oakland County, Michigan
1D. Seasonal comparison of selected water-quality parameters for samples from selected wells in Oakland County, Michigan
1E. Total arsenic concentrations in drinking water at selected ground-water sampling
sites in Oakland County, Michigan
1F. Total manganese concentrations in drinking water at selected ground-water sampling sites in Oakland County, Michigan
1G. Total iron concentrations in drinking water at selected ground-water sampling
sites in Oakland County, Michigan

Appendix 2:
Results of replicate sample analyses by U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Drinking Water Laboratory
Figures
2A. Graph showing nitrate concentrations
2B. Graph showing chloride concentrations
2C. Graph showing arsenic concentrations

Tables
2A. Analytical results of nitrate and nitrite analyses
2B. Analytical results of chloride analyses
2C. Analytical results of arsenic analyses

Citation:

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