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Updating Pennsylvania Streamgage Datums

USGS is updating streamgage datums to reflect elevations in North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88)

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Pennsylvania Groundwater Watch

Interactive map of groundwater levels at 108 sites in Adams, Chester, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and Pike Counties

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First-of-its-Kind Survey of PFAS in Pennsylvania Surface Waters

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USGS Pennsylvania Water Science Center operates about 580 real-time data collection sites acquiring information on surface water, groundwater, water quality, precipitation and ecosystem health. Data, including models, are also published for cooperative monitoring systems and investigative studies.

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Assessment of Hydrologic Trends in Pennsylvania

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (PA DCNR), Bureau of Geological Survey, provides time series trends results using the Mann Kendall family of analyses on select sites across Pennsylvania for baseflow, runoff, groundwater levels, and streamflow percentiles. Trend results for baseflow and runoff at 197...
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Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Statistical predictions of groundwater levels and related spatial diagnostics for the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer from the mmlMRVAgen1 statistical machine-learning software

A multiple machine-learning model (Asquith and Killian, 2024) implementing Cubist and Random Forest regressions was used to predict monthly mean groundwater levels through time for the available years described in the metadata for the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer (MRVA). The MRVA is the surficial aquifer of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP), located in the south-central...
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Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Data in support of flow statistics for the Delaware River Basin

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) operates a dense network of streamgages within the Delaware River Basin (DRB) that provides near real-time and daily mean streamflow values, many of which have a decades long period of record. This long-term, historical dataset of daily mean streamflows is crucial for prediction of flows at ungaged stream reaches by means of parameter-based regression...
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Calibration data and model archive summaries for suspended-sediment, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus concentration surrogate models at USGS station 01575900, Chiques Creek near Marietta, Pennsylvania, 2021-2023

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA NRCS) has collected discrete stream samples for analysis of suspended-sediment, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus at the real-time streamflow and water-quality monitoring (turbidity and nitrate) station 01575900, Chiques Creek Near Marietta...
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Pennsylvania Water Science Center

River stage and temperature dataset for 2021-2024 collected for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers downstream of the Kinzua Dam, Pennsylvania.

This dataset contains river stage (in meters and feet), water surface elevation (WSE), and temperature data collected at 3 focal areas of research included in the Sustainable Rivers Program (SRP) in the Allegheny River that were collected and processed in collaboration with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). This dataset is a combination of data collected by Hobo* U20L water level data...
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Coal mine drainage effluents and associated solids major, trace, rare earth element and radium concentrations collected from Pennsylvania, USA

Discharges from abandoned coal mines and associated mine wastes represent historic and persistent sources of pollution in the Appalachian Basin, United States. In this study, we conducted the first-ever survey of radium (Ra) in coal mine drainage (CMD) water and solid samples in the United States. Samples were collected from 4 untreated coal mine discharges and 9 treated coal mine...
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Energy Resources Program, Environmental Health Program, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Paired Air and Water Temperature Data for Two Watersheds in the Delaware River Basin

The data release consists of two companion air and water temperature datasets collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) program with data from both the Little Lehigh and White Clay Creek Watersheds in the Delaware River Basin. Data consists of 15-minute temperature data during the 7/2021 – 12/2022 study period for 21 air and 49...
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Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Calibration data and model archive summaries for suspended-sediment, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus concentration surrogate models in York County, Pennsylvania, 2019-2023 (ver. 2.0, May 2024)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the York County Planning Commission and York County Conservation District, has collected discrete stream samples for analysis of suspended-sediment, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus concentrations at six real-time streamflow and water-quality monitoring (turbidity, nitrate, and specific conductance) stations located in York...
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Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Collection of Pesticides and Other Water Quality Analytical Data from Selected Hydrogeologic Regions of Pennsylvania

These datasets contain all publicly available analytical data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at each location sampled by the Pennsylvania Pesticides in Vulnerable Groundwaters program from 2021 and 2022. Additional analytical data will be appended following the conclusion of each sampling season, and all data is made publicly available in the on-line National Water...
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Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Quality assurance of water levels in the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer in Louisiana from the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources' Strategic Online Natural Resources Information System (SONRIS)

This data release provides several data files representing groundwater levels reported through driller's reports for the State of Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, 2023) within or near the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP) and (or) associated with the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer (MRVA). First, a retrieval of data from the...
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Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Quality assurance of water levels in the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer in Arkansas from the Arkansas Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Division

This data release provides several data files representing groundwater levels reported through driller's reports for the State of Arkansas Arkansas Department of Agriculture National Resources Division (https://wise.er.usgs.gov/driller_db/) (accessed January 10, 2024) within or near the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP) and (or) associated with the Mississippi River Valley alluvial...
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Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Groundwater, surface water, and soil data collected near and at the Ammonium Perchlorate Rocket Motor Destruction (ARMD) facility at the Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Sampling was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at four wells, one surface water site, and five soil sampling locations near and at the Ammonium Perchlorate Rocket Motor Destruction (ARMD) facility at the Letterkenny Army Depot. Analytical results for groundwater samples collected in 2021 are provided in “ARMD_wells_data_2021.xlsx”. Analytical results for surface-water...
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