A Decade of Water-Quality Assessments: 
USGS Reports Findings of Regional and National Importance 

Water Environment Federation Briefing in cooperation with U.S. Geological Survey
and sponsored by Representative Ralph Regula (R -OH)

Time: May 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Location: Room HC8 in the Capitol Building  

Please enter through the South Door of the Capitol Building which faces Independence Avenue

Speakers:      Representative Ralph Regula (R -OH)

• Tim Miller, Chief, Office of Water Quality, USGS

• Keith Robinson, Supervisory Hydrologist, USGS

• Matthew Liebman, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region I

• Gary Rowe, Assistant Regional Hydrologist for NAWQA, USGS

• Bob Miltner , Ohio EPA

During its first decade, 1991–2001, USGS’s National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program completed assessments in 51 study units. Collectively the assessments characterize the overall health of the Nation’s surface-water and ground-water resources and address current and emerging water issues—a wealth of information that contributes to practical and effective water-resource management.  At the briefing, Tim Miller, Chief of the USGS Office of Water Quality, will discuss the overarching themes found throughout all the study units' data and analyses with emphasis on and examples from the final 15 study unit reports just released.  Two of the final 15 study units, the New England Coastal Basins and the Great and Little Miami River Basins in Ohio , will be highlighted with presentations by the scientists responsible for the studies and by decision makers who have used the findings.

Copies of the new USGS report, Water Quality in the Nation’s Streams and Aquifers—Overview of Selected Findings, 1991-2001, and of local study unit summary reports will be available at the briefing.

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