Questions for USGS pub. Warehouse:

1. Will they update links that have no HTML and/or PDF link to have them?

For example:

Andrews, W.J., Fong, A.L., Harrod, L., and Dittes, M.E., 1998, Water-quality assessment of part of the Upper Mississippi River Basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin--Ground-water quality in an urban part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, Minnesota, 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4248, 54 p.

2. This next publication is linking to a site that will shortly be gone (our old UMIS webpage) – so the pub. Warehouse should update their link.

Andrews, W.J., 1996, Few volatile organic compounds detected in rivers and ground water in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-095-96, 2 p.
Abstract (.html)

(links to PDF in internal website. Need to find proper link?)

- this is no good, if you click to view the doc. As HTML it links back to the old UMIS site!!

3. Some publications have no viewing options, not even a scanned page-by-page option, such as the following example. Will these be updated?
Fong, A.L., Andrews, W.J., and Stark, J.R., 1998, Water-Quality Assessment of Part of the Upper Mississippi River Basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin--Ground-Water Quality in the Prairie du Chien-Jordan Aquifer, 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report 98-4248, 45 p.
Abstract (.html)

(no viewing options)

4. We have a PDF of the following document, but there is no link to it on the pub. Warehouse site. Also, our PDF is internal, it is not on the MN district site.
Stark, J.R., 1994, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--the UpperMississippiRiver Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-101, 2 p.

(internal website link - find proper link?)


5. This next publication has no links on the pub. Warehouse site.
Stark, J.R., and Amos, G.L., 1996, Water-quality assessment of part of the Upper Mississippi River Basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin--Compilation of Related literature: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-579, 286 p.
(Comprehensive Bibliography) – this link currently goes to the “related publications page” at

- has no links

6. The next publication could link back to the MN district PDF shown below.

Stark, J.R., 1997, Causes of variations in water quality and aquatic ecology in rivers of the Upper Mississippi River Basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-249-96, 4 p.

- has no links, not even to this one:

7. This publication has links to the wrong PDF. See the correct link below.

Talmage, P. J., Lee, K.E., Goldstein, R.M., Anderson, J.P., and Fallon, J.D., 2000, Water quality, physical habitat, and fish community composition in streams in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, Minnesota, 1997-98: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4247, 18 p.

- they are linking to the wrong MN district PDF. Should be this one: