USGS WaterAlert allows users to set notification thresholds for any USGS real-time data collection station, including stream, tidal, and groundwater gages, water-quality, and weather stations and sends emails or text messages to subscribers whenever the threshold conditions are met, as often as every hour.
USGS WaterNow allows you to send a text message or email containing a USGS current-conditions
USGS offer these Internet water services:
- BioData
- Groundwater Watch
- National Water Information System (NWIS)
- National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Data Warehouse
- StreamStats
- USGS Flood Inundation Mapper
- USGS Short-Term Networks
- WaterAlert
- WaterNow
- WaterQualityWatch
- WaterWatch
USGS WATERALERT
USGS WaterAlert allows users to set notification thresholds for any USGS real-time stream or raingage, water-quality, or groundwater monitoring site and then sends emails or text messages to subscribers whenever the threshold conditions are met, as often as every hour.
WaterAlert serves a variety of needs for the community, including:
- Emergency management
- Water supply management
- Recreational boating
- Recreational fishing
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USGS WATERNOW

USGS WaterNow allows you to send a text message or email containing a USGS current-conditions gaging site number and quickly receive a reply with its most recent observation(s).
Related Content
Below are data or web applications associated with this project.
New Jersey Groundwater Watch
Interactive map of New Jersey Groundwater Network divided by Counties.
Water Watch - National
WaterWatch is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) World Wide Web site that displays maps, graphs, and tables describing real-time, recent, and past streamflow conditions for the United States.
USGS WaterNow for New Jersey
Want to know what's happening right now? Request real-time information from any USGS streamgage with the USGS WaterNow text service. This service responds to your text message with information about the current stage, streamflow, or other parameters collected at the gage.
USGS Flood Event Viewer - Network
The USGS operates an event-based mobile storm-surge sensor network to capture information about coastal and inland storm tides.
StreamStats for New Jersey
The USGS StreamStats website is a GIS-based web tool for estimating streamflows at gaged and ungaged locations. Features similar to the National Streamflow Statistics program are presented to users with no programs to install. Users can visit the StreamStats website linked here and click on a stream location on the interactive map to compute estimated streamflows for floods and other statistics.
WaterWatch - Drought NJ
Interactive map of the below normal 7-day average streamflow compared to historical streamflow for the day of year in New Jersey
WaterWatch - Floods NJ
Real-Time Interactive Map of Floods and High Flow conditions in New Jersey
Below are data or web applications associated with this project.
WaterAlert
The U.S. Geological Survey WaterAlert service provides notifications to your email or phone for changes in water conditions based on thresholds you choose.
WaterWatch (surface water)
WaterWatch displays maps, graphs, and tables describing real-time, recent, and past streamflow conditions for the United States, including flood and droughts. Real-time information generally is updated on an hourly basis.
USGS StreamStats
StreamStats is a Web-based tool that provides streamflow statistics, drainage-basin characteristics, and other information for USGS streamgaging stations and for user-selected ungaged sites on streams. When users select the location of a streamgaging station, StreamStats provides previously published information from a database. When users select a site on an ungaged stream,
Related Content
- Data
Below are data or web applications associated with this project.
New Jersey Groundwater Watch
Interactive map of New Jersey Groundwater Network divided by Counties.
Water Watch - National
WaterWatch is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) World Wide Web site that displays maps, graphs, and tables describing real-time, recent, and past streamflow conditions for the United States.
USGS WaterNow for New Jersey
Want to know what's happening right now? Request real-time information from any USGS streamgage with the USGS WaterNow text service. This service responds to your text message with information about the current stage, streamflow, or other parameters collected at the gage.
USGS Flood Event Viewer - Network
The USGS operates an event-based mobile storm-surge sensor network to capture information about coastal and inland storm tides.
StreamStats for New Jersey
The USGS StreamStats website is a GIS-based web tool for estimating streamflows at gaged and ungaged locations. Features similar to the National Streamflow Statistics program are presented to users with no programs to install. Users can visit the StreamStats website linked here and click on a stream location on the interactive map to compute estimated streamflows for floods and other statistics.
WaterWatch - Drought NJ
Interactive map of the below normal 7-day average streamflow compared to historical streamflow for the day of year in New Jersey
WaterWatch - Floods NJ
Real-Time Interactive Map of Floods and High Flow conditions in New Jersey
- Web Tools
Below are data or web applications associated with this project.
WaterAlert
The U.S. Geological Survey WaterAlert service provides notifications to your email or phone for changes in water conditions based on thresholds you choose.
ByWater Resources, Kansas Water Science Center, New Jersey Water Science Center, New York Water Science Center, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, Oregon Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center, Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility (HIF), National Water Quality LaboratoryWaterWatch (surface water)
WaterWatch displays maps, graphs, and tables describing real-time, recent, and past streamflow conditions for the United States, including flood and droughts. Real-time information generally is updated on an hourly basis.
USGS StreamStats
StreamStats is a Web-based tool that provides streamflow statistics, drainage-basin characteristics, and other information for USGS streamgaging stations and for user-selected ungaged sites on streams. When users select the location of a streamgaging station, StreamStats provides previously published information from a database. When users select a site on an ungaged stream,