Seventeen critical river and lake gages used to measure water level and flow around Lake Champlain are slated for removal next spring. Managed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), they are ...

A new U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge on lower Castle Creek began recording public data Thursday as a result of $34,000 in funding from the Aspen nonprofit group Saving Our Streams. The group is ...

A regional coalition of 13 hydrologists recently sent a letter to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division stating the agency is using the wrong data to analyze the potential impacts of the ...

Near my childhood home was a small river. It wasn’t much more than a creek at the best of times, and in dry summers it would sometimes almost dry up completely. But snowmelt revived it each Spring, ...

In the spring of 2011, a big, fast-melting snowpack, along with ice-jammed rivers and persistent rain brought intense flooding to Montana. Miles City, in the southeastern part of the state, declared a ...

A race is on to keep stream-gage systems in place along Lake Champlain. Congressional leaders, regional public safety officials and scientists are pressing federal authorities to find money for ...

A searchable, color-coded river, lake and stream map with water features displayed over road maps, satellite images and topographic maps. GPS location and waypoint capability and turn-by-turn ...

For 125 years, a gauge near the village of Embudo has quietly measured the stream flow in the Rio Grande. The Embudo gauge is the oldest U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge in the nation, constructed ...

Stream gaging sure was a dapper occupation at the turn of the century! Here’s the various techniques United States Geological Survey hydrologists used to measure current without even dipping a toe ...

stream-gage-graphic-jpg Stream gauge on the North Fork of the John Day River in Oregon. So far, it’s safe. Hydrologist David Evetts drove north from his office in Boise, Idaho, to the former ...

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced Thursday that agreements are being finalized among key partners to prevent the looming shutdown of several U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) river gages in the Lake ...