from Wild, 2007
Water Use : (1) In a restrictive sense, the term refers to water that is actually used for a specific purpose, such as for domestic use, irrigation, or industrial processing. (2) More broadly, water use pertains to human interaction with and impact on the hydrologic cycle, and includes elements such as water withdrawal, distribution, consumptive use, wastewater collection, and return flow.
Water Supply : All of the processes that are involved in obtaining water for the user before use. Includes withdrawal, water treatment, and other distribution.
Domestic Water Use : Water for household purposes, such as drinking, food preparation, bathing, washing, clothes and dishes, flushing toilets, and watering lawns and gardens. Households include single and multifamily dwellings. Also called residential water use. The water may be obtained from a public water supply or may be self-supplied.
Water Purification : The processes that withdrawn water may undergo prior to use, including chlorination, fluoridation, and filtration.
"Freshwater aquifers along the Atlantic coast of the United States are vulnerable to the intrusion of saltwater from saline waters that bound the aquifers along their seaward margins. Incidences of saltwater intrusion have been documented along the Atlantic coast for more than 100 years."
from Caine, Johnson, and Wild, 2011
"The Schwartzwalder deposit is the largest known vein type uranium deposit in the United States. Located about eight miles northwest of Golden, Colorado it occurs in Proterozoic metamorphic rocks and was formed by hydrothermal fluid flow, mineralization, and deformation during the Laramide Orogeny. A complex brittle fault zone hosts the deposit comprising locally brecciated carbonate, oxide, and sulfide minerals. Mining of pitchblende, the primary ore mineral, began in 1953 and an extensive network of underground workings was developed. Mine dewatering, treatment of the effluent and its discharge into the adjacent Ralston Creek was done under State permit from about 1990 through about 2008. Mining and dewatering ceased in 2000 and natural groundwater rebound has filled the mine workings to a current elevation that is above Ralston Creek but that is still below the lowest ground level adit. Water in the “mine pool” has concentrations of dissolved uranium in excess of 1,000 times the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinkingwater standard of 30 mg/L. Other dissolved constituents such as molybdenum, radium, and sulfate are also present in anomalously high concentrations."
Water Use
Wild, Emily C., 2007, Estimated water use and availability in the East Narragansett Bay study area, 1995-99: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5168, 51 p. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9956229913506421
Wild, Emily C., and Mark T. Nimiroski, 2007, Estimated water use and availability in the Pawtuxet and Quinebaug River Basins, Rhode Island, 1995–99: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5154, 68 p. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952264363506421
Wild, Emily C., and Nimiroski, M.T., 2005, Estimated water use and availability in the South Coastal Drainage Basin, Southern Rhode Island, 1995-99: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5288, 46 p. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99127137982906421
Wild, E.C., and Mark T. Nimiroski, 2004, Estimated water use and availability in the Pawcatuck Basin, southern Rhode Island and southeastern Connecticut, 1995–99: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5020, 80 p. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99127137163406421
Nimiroski, Mark T., and Emily C. Wild, 2005, Water use and availability in the West Narragansett Bay Area, coastal Rhode Island 1995-99: Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5256, 54 p. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9955667213506421
Nimiroski, Mark T., and Emily C. Wild, 2005, Water use and availability in the Woonasquatucket and Moshassuck River Basins, north-central Rhode Island, 1995-99: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5031, 44 p. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9955884873506421
Uranium
Caine, Jonathan S., Raymond H. Johnson, and Emily C. Wild, 2011, Review and interpretation of previous work and new data on the hydrogeology of the Schwartzwalder Uranium Mine and vicinity, Jefferson County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1092, 55 p. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99117080543506421
Saltwater Intrusion
Barlow, Paul M., and Emily C. Wild, 2002, Bibliography on the Occurrence and Intrusion of Saltwater in Aquifers along the Atlantic coast: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2002-235, 30 p. https://search.worldcat.org/title/52032708
Wild, Emily C., and W. Michael Havener, 2001, "Online bibliographic sources in hydrology," in Baldwin, Virginia, and Hallmark, Julie, eds., Information and the Scientist and Engineer, 222 p. https://search.worldcat.org/title/823389157
Wild, Emily C., and W. Michael Havener, 2001, "Online bibliographic sources in hydrology," Science and Technology Libraries, Volume 21, Issue 3-4, 2001, pages 63-86. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70023512
