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Science-Based Tools Can Help Prevent Illness at Ohio and New York Beaches

Science-Based Tools Can Help Prevent Illness at Ohio and New York Beaches

These interactive, mobile-friendly websites use maps of beach locations to indicate whether or not estimated bacteria levels exceed state safety...

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Buoy on Popular New England Lake Helps Determine When to Stay Out of the Water

Buoy on Popular New England Lake Helps Determine When to Stay Out of the Water

A high-tech buoy that monitors water quality in real time was just installed in one of New England’s most popular lakes, where in the future it will...

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Cavefish from Mexico Identified as First of its Kind in Western Hemisphere

Cavefish from Mexico Identified as First of its Kind in Western Hemisphere

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and Louisiana State University have identified a new genus and species of cavefish from Mexico, the Oaxaca...

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Assessing Groundwater Over Time in Gaines, Terry and Yoakum Counties, Texas

Assessing Groundwater Over Time in Gaines, Terry and Yoakum Counties, Texas

A new report about how groundwater quality and quantity has changed in and around Gaines, Terry and Yoakum counties, Texas is now available from the U...

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New Tide Gauges Installed Along Virginia Beach’s Coastline

New Tide Gauges Installed Along Virginia Beach’s Coastline

Virginia Beach residents and local emergency managers have a new tool to monitor storm tides and flooding this hurricane season with the installation...

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New USGS Streamgage Aims to Protect Hoosier Lives, Property

New USGS Streamgage Aims to Protect Hoosier Lives, Property

A new streamgage recently installed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the city of Linton, Indiana, will provide continuous, real-time streamflow and...

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Atlantic Methane Seeps Surprise Scientists

Atlantic Methane Seeps Surprise Scientists

Recent scientific work has confirmed the source, composition and origin of methane seeps on the Atlantic Ocean seafloor, discovered in 2012, where...

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Harlem River Water Quality Improves Dramatically, Though River Remains Impaired

Harlem River Water Quality Improves Dramatically, Though River Remains Impaired

Water quality in the Harlem River in New York has improved greatly since passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, though there are still instances...

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Moving Barges Have Potential to Transport Invasive Fish

Moving Barges Have Potential to Transport Invasive Fish

When a moving barge encounters small fish in the Illinois Waterway there is a possibility that the fish will become trapped in the gap between barges...

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Harlem River Water Quality Improves Dramatically, Though River Remains Impaired

Harlem River Water Quality Improves Dramatically, Though River Remains Impaired

Water quality in the Harlem River in New York has improved greatly since passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, though there are still instances...

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Rainfall Following Drought Linked to Historic Nitrate Levels in Some Midwest Streams in 2013

Rainfall Following Drought Linked to Historic Nitrate Levels in Some Midwest Streams in 2013

Highest concentrations found in Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois. 

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Temporary Streamgages Installed to Assist Texas Flood Response

Temporary Streamgages Installed to Assist Texas Flood Response

Reporters: Do you want to interview USGS scientists as they measure flooding? Please contact Jennifer LaVista.

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