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USGS2003

New Hampshire's stream-gaging network: Status and future needs

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with local, State, and Federal agencies, operates a network of 50 continuously recording stream-gaging stations in New Hampshire ( fig. 1 ). Accurate and unbiased information provided by these USGS stations on the amount of water in rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs in New Hampshire is essential to safeguarding lives and property, monitoring and managing water resources, and understanding the effects of climate and land-use change on hydrology.

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USGS1999

West Virginia

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USGS2001

United States Antarctic Resource Center (USARC)

The U.S. Antarctic Resource Center (USARC) is our Nation?s depository for Antarctic maps, charts, geodetic ground control, satellite images, aerial photographs, publications, slides, and video tapes. These resources are items produced by Antarctic Treaty nations in support of their activities in Antarctica and provided to the USARC in compliance with a standing resolution of the treaty providing for exchange of information. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains these materials through an interagency cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF), which also supports the USGS Antarctic Mapping Program. The USARC develops and maintains the Antarctic Web site (usarc.usgs.gov) and its supporting data bases, as well as providing access to other online digital data bases, such as the Atlas of Antarctic Resources.

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USGS2003

Arsenic concentrations in private bedrock wells in southeastern New Hampshire

Southeastern New Hampshire is a rapidly growing region that has been identified as having moderate to high concentrations of arsenic in drinking water from ground-water sources (Ayotte and others, 2003; Ayotte and others, 1999; Peters and others, 1999). Southeastern New Hampshire, comprised of Hillsborough, Rockingham, and Strafford Counties ( fig. 1 ), has grown in population by more than 84,500 or 12 percent over the past decade to more than 770,400 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000). These counties contain 62 percent of the State's population, but encompass only about 22 percent of New Hampshire's land area. More than 37 percent of the population in New Hampshire uses private wells as a source for drinking water (U.S. Census Bureau, 1990).

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USGS1998

Effectiveness of barnyard best management practices in Wisconsin

In 1978, the Wisconsin Legislature committed to protecting water quality by enacting the Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Abatement Program. Through this program, cost-share money is provided within priority watersheds to control sources of nonpoint pollution. Most of the cost-share dollars for rural watersheds have been used to implement barnyard Best Management Practices (BMPs) because barnyards are believed to be a major source of pollutants, most notably phosphorus. Reductions in phosphorus loads of as much as 95 percent have been predicted for the barnyard BMPs recommended for priority watersheds.

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USGS2000

Wisconsin

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USGS2001

Innovative Partnerships

A major responsibility of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is to ensure geospatial data availability. This includes the cooperative production of digital geospatial data through the National Mapping Program's Innovative Partnerships (IP) initiative, which began in October 1992.

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USGS2003

Surface-water and ground-water quality in the Powell Creek and Armstrong Creek Watersheds, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, July-September 2001

Powell Creek and Armstrong Creek Watersheds are in Dauphin County, north of Harrisburg, Pa. The completion of the Dauphin Bypass Transportation Project in 2001 helped to alleviate traffic congestion from these watersheds to Harrisburg. However, increased development in Powell Creek and Armstrong Creek Watersheds is expected. The purpose of this study was to establish a baseline for future projects in the watersheds so that the effects of land-use changes on water quality can be documented. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) (2002) indicates that surface water generally is good in the 71 perennial stream miles in the watersheds. PADEP lists 11.1 stream miles within the Armstrong Creek and 3.2 stream miles within the Powell Creek Watersheds as impaired or not meeting water-quality standards. Siltation from agricultural sources and removal of vegetation along stream channels are cited by PADEP as likely factors causing this impairment.

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