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Sam Rayburn Lake, September 2012. Photograph by David LaRue, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

SIR 2012–5202

Granger Lake, September 2012. Photograph by Ben Bohac, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

SIR 2012–5202

USGS employee Anthony Lopez views the Atlantic City skyline while collecting sediment samples in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Galloway Township, NJ.

A 3-D terrestrial lidar scan of the Interstate-510 bridge in New Orleans taken Friday (Aug. 31, 2012). The U.S. Geological Survey is using this new technology in select areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to map flooding in urban areas impacted by Hurricane Isaac.

Hurricane Sandy satellite image

USGS emplyee stramgaging USGS gage 13181000 Owyhee River near Rome, OR.

Owyhee River near Rome, OR; Alvin Sablan streamgaging.

Cave in fractured Austin Group rock located approximately 9.3 miles northeast of city of Uvalde in Uvalde County, Texas. Photograph taken August 7, 2012, by Robert R. Morris.

SIR 2013–5149

USGS employee Anthony Lopez enjoys the boat ride back to port after a long day of sampling sediment in the Barnegat Bay near Seaside Heights, NJ. 

USGS scientist Jennifer Lewicki measures the discharge along a tributary to Hot Springs Creek, Akutan Island, Alaska. Steam (upper left) rises from 3 high-temperature springs that discharge into the tributary.

A hot spring discharges 77°C (~171°F) water into Hot Springs Creek, Akutan Island, Alaska.

This image shows a low streamflow on the Arkansas River at Syracuse.
Human activity, such as groundwater pumping, land management, reservoir operations and urbanization, has a measurable effect on streamflows in Kansas locally, regionally and statewide, according to a new USGS report.

Groundwater in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain aquifers is old—more than 21,300 years old in more than half of the wells sampled.

Groundwater is pumped from a public-supply well and stored in a water tower for residents' use in Clayton, New Jersey. The well taps groundwater from the North Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifer.

USGS scientists take samples of Lafferty Gulch surface water, which was analyzed for perchlorate and metals.

Sampling Lafferty Gulch surface water that was analyzed for perchlorate and metals on July 10, 2012. Water-quality sampling of groundwater and surface water was conducted during 2011-15 at Mount Rushmore National Memorial to characterize the occurrent of perchlorate and selected metals commonly associated with fireworks.

Collection of composite soil samples, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, June 20, 2012. Water-quality sampling of groundwater and surface water and soil sampling was conducted during 2011-15 at Mount Rushmore National Memorial to characterize the occurrent of perchlorate and selected metals commonly associated with fireworks.

Photo showing a location where the water is usually eight feet deep for swimming is now several feet out of the water.

Grass growing in areas that would normally be underwater near Normany Dam.

Recreation areas that are normally available for summer swimming are without any water.

In the stream is Martel Fisher (USGS) and Bart Powaukee (Coordinator Ute Indian Tribe Water Quality Department) and some of the Ute Tribe Water Quality Department employees.