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Herring River Estuary, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Groundwater well serving private residence in Loudon, New Hampshire.

Flooding around Mill River USGS streamflow gage 01171500 at Northampton, Massachusetts.

Beehive Lagoon - Acadia National Park, Maine: View from the Sand Beach, September 19, 2015

Mystic River at Medford, MA in the vicinity of the streamgage station 01103040.

This photos shows the box culverts installed at Bronson Brook at Dingle Road in Worthington, Massachusetts. This undersized stream crossing has been renovated to increase habitat connectivity. 

USGS staff installing monitoring equipment on the Chequessett Neck Road dike, Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Photograph of the sampling system used to collect flow-proportional filtered and nonfiltered composite samples of stormflow at the 01115110, Huntinghouse Brook at Elmdale Road near North Scituate, Rhode Island, streamgage.

Photograph of monitoring station at U.S. Geological Survey streamgage 01115110, Huntinghouse Brook at Elmdale Road near North Scituate, Rhode Island.

Saco river in the headwaters area.

On April 29, hydrologic technicians Anthony Underwood and Jeremiah Pomerleau visited the USGS gaging station on the St. John River at Ninemile Bridge and found a sea of broken up, dirty ice left behind by a recent ice jam.

According to Anthony, photos don't do the size and scale of the ice chunks any justice.

USGS scientists Carol Johnson, Eric White and Tim McCobb prepare geophysical equipment for deployment in a coastal embayment April 9, 2015 in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Hydrologist Charlie Culbertson holds an acoustic velocity meter under the ice covered river while standing under the covered bridge over the Ellis River at South Andover, Maine. This meter is used to collect streamflow information through the ice during the winter period.

On January 14, 2015, hydrologic technicians Jeff Kinsey (shown) and Nick Stasulis visited USGS gaging station 01030500 on the Mattawamkeag River.

Treated wastewater from Joint Base Cape Cod was discharged to rapid-infiltration disposal beds from 1936 to 1995. The disposal formed a groundwater contamination plume that extends more than 10 kilometers in the Cape Cod sand and gravel glacial outwash aquifer.

Photograph of bridge-deck scuppers draining into the Charles River on State Route 2A in Boston near U.S. Geological Survey bridge-deck-monitoring station 422108071052501 during a rainstorm.

A Great Black‑backed Gull stands on a rock at Plum Island, MA, looking out over the water with the sand dunes behind it. Its bright white head and big yellow beak stand out against its dark wings.

Drilling on Maravista peninsula in Falmouth, Massachusetts

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists collecting water-quality samples from shallow groundwater under Ashumet Pond, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Sampling of Groundwater discharging through the bottom of a pond.

Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Sunset view looking northwest from Fishermans Cove, across Ashumet Pond, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The small sticks and flags in the lake are a sampling grid.