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We operate and maintain extensive monitoring networks and conduct hydrologic investigations to quantify each component of the hydrologic cycle.
PFAS Investigations Across Virginia and West Virginia
The Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center works with local and regional partners to determine the drivers and distribution of PFAS contamination in groundwater, surface water, and drinking water supplies across Virginia and West Virginia.
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Explore our scientific and data-driven web tools that include data visualizations, digital repositories, and interactive maps with data access and data analysis capabilities.
Northeast Region Drought Streamflow Probabilities
Explore drought probabilities for select streams estimated using maximum likelihood regression. Winter streamflows are used to estimate the chance of hydrologic drought during summer months 5 to 11 months in advance.
Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
Welcome to the Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center. We deliver timely and reliable data, advanced interpretive science, and tools needed to understand the water resources of Virginia and West Virginia in support of effective decision making.
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Virginia Current Water Conditions
Explore real-time Virginia streamflow, groundwater, and water-quality conditions and access data with our interactive map application.
West Virginia Current Water Conditions
Explore real-time West Virginia streamflow, groundwater, and water-quality conditions and access data with our interactive map application.
Chesapeake Bay Nontidal Network Mapper
Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring program
Drought Streamflow Probabilities in Virginia
Kentucky Drought Condition Monitor
Northeast Drought Streamflow Probabilities Mapper
Water-monitoring-site Mappers
USGS post-Ian science continues
Response and recovery, preparation and prediction
New intensive water-resource monitoring stations support stream and ecological restoration research in Reston, Virginia
Groundwater quality and geochemistry of the western wet gas part of the Marcellus Shale Oil and Gas Play in West Virginia
Thirty rural residential water wells in the wet gas region of the Marcellus Shale oil and gas play in northwestern West Virginia were sampled by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 2018, in cooperation with West Virginia State agencies, to analyze for a range of water-quality constituents, including major ions, trace metals, radionuclides, bacteria, and methane and other dissolved hydrocarbon gas
GPS data from 2019 and 2020 campaigns in the Chesapeake Bay region towards quantifying vertical land motions
The Chesapeake Bay is a region along the eastern coast of the United States where sea-level rise is confounded with poorly resolved rates of land subsidence, thus new constraints on vertical land motions (VLM) in the region are warranted. In this paper, we provide a description of two campaign-style Global Positioning System (GPS) datasets, explain the methods used in data collection and validatio
Ecosystems, Fort Collins Science Center, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Eastern Ecological Science Center, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
Stormwater quantity and quality in selected urban watersheds in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2016–2020
Urbanization can substantially alter sediment and nutrient loadings to streams. Although a growing body of literature has documented these processes, conditions may vary widely by region and physiographic province (PP). Substantial investments are made by localities to meet federal, state, and local water-quality goals and locally relevant monitoring data are needed to appropriately set standards
USGS revises 2020 nontidal load and trend results
Issue: The USGS has revised loads and trends through 2020 from monitoring stations in the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Nontidal Network (NTN). The original release of the results was in July 2022. During a process to implement a new software package for the next update of NTN data, the USGS discovered some questionable data values. Most of the questionable values were related to a coding...
Chesapeake Bay Activities, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
PFAS Investigations at the Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
Exposure to some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been linked to harmful health effects in humans and animals. The Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center works with local and regional partners to determine the drivers and distribution of PFAS contamination in groundwater, surface water, and drinking water supplies across Virginia and West Virginia.
PFAS in West Virginia's Groundwater and Surface Water
In 2019, the West Virginia legislature recognized the contamination risk to public source-water supplies posed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and passed a resolution that required a statewide PFAS study. The purpose of this resulting study was to understand the occurrence and distribution of PFAS contamination throughout the state's rivers, lakes, and groundwater aquifers. This...