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FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps.

​USGS employee is checking Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps before a meeting.

​Surface Water Modeling for FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps. 

USGS employees survey a bridge.​​

Highway monitoring station USGS 415157072291301 along State Route 74 near Vernon, Connecticut.

Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | July 2019 | USGS At Work
Colin Sweeny taking field parameters for a water quality sample

NER May 2019 USGS at Work
Greg Walsh collects data on Coot Hill while conducting geologic mapping in the Adirondacks, NY

Shown in this photo is Hydrologic Technician Sam Banas performing a site inspection at an soil moisture and continuous groundwater well monitoring site. The site ID is: 424250072493101 MA-HNW 14 in Heath, Massachusetts.

Shown in this photo is Hydrologic Technician Sam Banas performing an electric tape down measurement of a real-time groundwater well in Northbridge, Massachusetts.

Brittney Izbicki, USGS, at the edge of the ice in the Connecticut River, preparing to collect water-quality samples.

David Sullivan, USGS, using an ice bar to chip away at the ice built up on the trail to get down to the water-quality sampling site at USGS gage Connecticut River near Thompsonville, CT

Theresa Armijo, USGS, collecting water-quality samples from the Connecticut River by USGS gage 01184000, Connecticut River near Thompsonville 

Colin Sweeney, USGS, collecting water-quality samples from the Connecticut River, CT

Belfort Weighing Bucket precipitation gauge at a high elevation meteorological station. Sleepers River Research Watershed, Danville, Vermont. 

Continuous water quality monitor that is deployed off a bridge in Westerly RI, just upstream of the 01118500 gage.

Hydrologic technician performing an electric tape down measurement of a real-time groundwater well. The site ID is: 412154071462901 RI-WEW 522 in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | February 2019 | Honorable Mention
Glenn Berwick installing RDG below ice jam

A gage on the backside of a tide control structure on the Herring River at Chequessett Neck Rd at Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It is evident to see the movement of incoming tide in this picture. Data was collected at this site for several years prior to the removal of the dike in 2023.

Photo of the Well CHW 18, Ninigret Park, Charlestown, Rhode Island. The depth of the well is 32.0 feet below land surface.

StreamStats application screenshot

USGS Station 011058798, Herring River at Chequessett Neck Road dike, looking downstream. 

A gage house of the USGS station 011058798 Herring River at Chequessett Neck Rd at Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

USGS staff survey the Mill River near the former Hopewell Mills Dam site in Taunton, Massachusetts. Surveys at the dam-removal and culvert-retrofit sites provided topographic and bathymetric data for hydraulic models developed for the study.