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Crabtree Falls in Nelson County Virginia

Flooded road in Highland County Virginia.

Stream flowing in Highland County Virginia, June 26, 2006. Photograph by Samuel H Austin.

Streamwater flowing over a rural road in Highland County, Virginia, June, 2006.

Resource professionals stand in the rain beside a mountain stream.

Flooding in Appomattox River at Matoaca

The Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia in winter, partially iced over. 

This site is the location of a River Input Monitoring (RIM) Station.

Image of the franklin extensometer before it was damaged by aquifer recovery. 

Originally published in:

Pope, J. P. (2002). Characterization and modeling of land subsidence due to groundwater withdrawals from the confined aquifers of the Virginia Coastal Plain (Doctoral dissertation, Virginia Tech).

Image of the original extensometer at Franklin, Virginia, which recorded aquifer compaction from 1979 to 1995.

Originally published in:

View of the Mattaponi River form the sampling bridge.

This site is the location of a River Input Monitoring (RIM) Station.

Station data: Mattaponi River Near Beulahville, VA - USGS Water Data for the Nation

Bridge over the Patuxent River near Bowie, Maryland. This site is the location of a River Input Monitoring (RIM) Station.

Station data: Patuxent River Near Bowie, MD - USGS Water Data for the Nation

Bridge over the Choptank River. This site is the location of a River Input Monitoring (RIM) Station.

Station data:Choptank River Near Greensboro, MD - USGS Water Data for the Nation

Under natural conditions, water levels in wells completed in many confined aquifers rise above the land surface, resulting in artesian flow. The well shown in the photograph was drilled near Franklin, Virginia, in 1941 to a depth of about 600 feet in confined aquifers. The initial water level in the well was about 7 feet above land surface.