Water Quality Protection District Reports and Projects - If you are interested in the data from the WQPD studies, please call 457-8927 for your request.

2020 Surface Water Monitoring

2020 Tenmile Flood Monitoring Plan

2020 WQPD Well Monitoring Plan

Emerald Ridge - 2014

Ground Water Monitoring Results and Surface Water - Ground Water Interaction, Helena Valley, Montana. - April 2013

Helena Valley Non-point Source Assessment Ground Water Loading of Nutrients to Surface Water - June 2015

LCWQPD Sampling QAP-2020

Re-watering Project - 2020

Tenmile Creek Groundwater Monitoring Report - 2019

Helena Area Ground Water Conditions - 2020

Additional agency reports

Appraisal of the quality of ground water in the Helena Valley, Montana.  USGS - Wilke & Coffin, 1973.

Channel Migration Zone Mapping  PPC/TMC - Final Report 2011

Evaluation of shallow aquifers in the Helena Valley, Lewis and Clark County, MT.  USGS - Moreland & Leonard, 1980

Geographic, geologic and hydrologic summaries of intermontane basins of the Northern Rocky Mountains, Montana, USGS - Kendy & Tresch, 1996

Geology and Ground-Water Resources of the Helena Valley, Mt  - Lorenz & Swenson, 1951

Ground water nitrate-nitrogen trends in relation to urban development, Helena, MT - Drake, Bauder, 2005

Ground Water Investigation Program - MBMG 

Helena Valley Groundwater Monitoring for Pesticides & Nitrates.  Department of Agriculture, 2006 

Helena Valley Pharmaceutical  Study - DEQ, 2005

Hydrogeology of the Helena Valley- Fill Aquifer System - Briar, Madison USGS 1992

Hydrology of the Helena area bedrock, west-central Montana, 1993-98, Thamke. 2000

Hydrologic data from selected wells in the helena Valley, Lewis and Clark County, MT. USGS.  Moreland et al. 1979.

Hydrogeology of the North Hills, Helena, MT - MBMG

Lake Helena TMDL - Upper Missouri 

Lewis & Clark County Helena Valley Ground Water Vulnerability Project -Trihydro 2008

Maps Showing Depth to Water Table, September 1976 and Area Inundated by the June 1975 Flood, Helena Valley, Lewis and Clark County, Montana.  USGS Wilke & Johnson, 1978.

Montana Channel Migration Zone (CMZ)Mapping resources are now available on line. 
This interactive statewide map shows where CMZ studies have been completed.   

Occurrence and hydrogeochemistry of radiochemical constituents in groundwater of Jefferson County and surrounding areas, Southwestern Montana, 2001-2010 - USGS Caldwell et al.

Reconnaissance of arsenic in surface and ground water along the Madison and upper Missouri Rivers, southwestern and west-central Montana.  USGS - Tuck, 2000