Images

Dan Edwards and Gary Wall attach a hydroacoustic and turbidity equipment package to a tripod for deployment on the bottom of the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, NY

Clear cool water over a limestone rock and gravel riverbed is characteristic of many Texas Hill County Creeks and Rivers. 

USGS regional research drill rig constructing sites near the south bank of the Truckee River just downstream of USGS 10350000 Truckee River at Vista. The wells were constructed to investigate surface water groundwater interaction.

Batavia Kill at Red Falls, Greene County, NY

USGS scientists taking water samples in the tidal marsh on Long Island.

Long Island

More than 40 million people in the U.S. rely on domestic wells, like the one shown here, for their drinking water. Concentrations of groundwater at the wellhead typically are low, but lead can leach into the water from corrosion of household plumbing that contains lead.

Long Island core samples

Groundwater sampling for water quality on Long Island, New York

An Everglades National Park coastal salt marsh crossed with drainage creeks.

U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08028500 Sabine River near Bon Wier, Texas, photograph looking from left bank adjacent to U.S. Highway 190 bridge, May 30, 1999.

SIR 2009–5174

Florida's Atlantic coastal dune with typical vegetation such as seaoats and Spanish bayonets. Trails to the beach cut through the dune. Photograph taken circa 1998.

Burned-out buildings in downtown Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Downtown Grand Forks, North Dakota flooded by the Red River of the North in 1997.

An inundated building in Grand Forks, North Dakota durring the Red River of the North Flood.

Grand Forks flooding on Highway 2.

Boats on city streets of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota during the 1997 Red River of the North flood.

Flooding of homes in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1997.

The Sorlie Bridge between Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, during the 1997 Red River of the North flood.

U.S. Geological Survey employees being transported to sites by National Guard personnel.

The flag of the United States of American flies over flood water in Grand Forks, North Dakota.