Water Quality
Water Quality
Information about water quality in streams and rivers throughout Nebraska is critical to making informed decisions about water resources. Data can be collected from rivers and streams, analyzed, then used by water managers for making decisions to improve water quality.
Tracking Water Quality of the Nation's Rivers and Streams
Tracking Water Quality of the Nation's Rivers and Streams
Visit this interactive web tool that tracks water quality of more than 100 rivers and streams across the Nation.
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Groundwater-Quality Monitoring near Ashland, Nebraska
Since 1991, the USGS Nebraska Water Science Center has collected water samples from six monitoring wells in the Platte River alluvial aquifer near Ashland. Analytes include major and trace metals, nutrients, dissolved organic carbon, pesticides and their degradates, and arsenic species. The samples are analyzed by the USGS National Water Quality Laboratory. The USGS also collects additional...