Lake water-quality data for select constituents in Williston Basin, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota for water years 1970-2014.

Description

The surface water water-quality data were compiled from Water Quality Portal (https://www.waterqualitydata.us/) (National Water Quality Monitoring Council, 2015), USGS’s NAWQA Project’s data compilation (Oelsner and others, 2017) and the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology (Montana Bureau of Mines, 2021), The compilation contains data for chloride, pH, specific conductance, sulfate, total dissolved solids (TDS) collected between water year 1970 to 2014. In addition 10 metals (aluminum, arsenic, barium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, selenium strontium, and zinc) analyzed during water years 1993 through 2014.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.630f7d55d34e36012efa085b.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F77080B9

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  • montana
  • south-dakota
  • usgs-630f7d55d34e36012efa085b
  • surface-water-water-quality
  • water-quality
  • aluminum-arsenic-barium-chromium-copper-iron-lead-selenium-strontium-zinc
  • water-quality-parameters
  • inlandwaters
  • datasets
  • lake-water-quality
  • specific-conductance-sulfate-total-dissolved-solids-tds-sc-ph
  • north-dakota
  • williston-basin
  • lake
  • surface-water-quality

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