Water Use

Water Resource planning requires a source of reliable, relevant, easily accessible data. Multiple NJDEP agencies are involved with regulation and data collection with regard to the State's water resources. These programs include land use, water quality, water supply, and wildlife. The USGS NJ WSC has been asked to update the NJWaTr database structure to accommodate new data requirements and to...

Biological impairment is but an indicator that some type of anthropogenic process has occurred resulting in aquatic assemblage degradation. The purpose of this proposal is to establish an applicable TMDL approach to address aquatic life impairments associated with stormwater runoff and hydrologic alteration for streams in New Jersey with the goal of improving river systems by reducing the impact...

The study examines the structure and function of the hydrologic system supporting Pinelands aquatic and wetland communities and the hydrologic and ecological response to groundwater-withdrawal stress. USGS components of the study focus on various aspects of the hydrologic system that controls groundwater and surface-water flow, depth of water in wetlands, and interactions between the groundwater...

Coordinate AWUDS testing

The population increase and the associated development have necessitated an increase in the withdrawals of both surface and groundwater to meet water-supply demands, have increased the amount of wastewater discharged from treatment facilities, and have increased the amount of impervious surface area and resulting stormwater flows. Since streamflow can be influenced by both human activities and...

To use NJHAT at ungaged sites, an analytical tool is required that can develop a long-term daily hydrograph at these sites. The objectives of the project is to pilot the use of TOPMODEL and DHI software to produce long-term hydrographs at gaged sites and to show that one or both of these models could be used to produce long-term hydrographs at ungaged sites with sufficient accuracy for use with...

The development of groundwater in the New Jersey Coastal Plain has occurred primarily near large population centers, creating large regional cones of depression in several of the New Jersey Coastal Plain aquifers. Continued decline of water levels in the confined aquifers poses the threat of serious adverse effects to the water supply in some areas, including the depletion of groundwater supplies...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) is undertaking an update of the Statewide Water-Supply Master Plan for New Jersey. As part of this process, the water supply planners want to perform an assessment of the potential water capacity of the surficial aquifers of the state. The approach that they envision is to examine the low streamflow statistics for each Hydrologic Unit...

The data collected under the PWTA Program represents the most extensive body of analytical results collected from private wells in New Jersey. Increasing demands for the analysis of this data, from both a public health perspective and as a tool for evaluating the groundwater quality of sources supplying small domestic wells, require the DEP to restructure the existing data system.

NAWQA is a program from the USGS that addresses the goals of that status of surface-water and groundwater, provide understanding of human impact, and to support local, state, and federal agencies with aforementioned data.

NAWQA is a program from the USGS that addresses the goals of that status of surface-water and groundwater, provide understanding of human impact, and to support local, state, and federal agencies with aforementioned data.

NAWQA is a program from the USGS that addresses the goals of that status of surface-water and groundwater, provide understanding of human impact, and to support local, state, and federal agencies with aforementioned data.