Research and Investigations at the South Atlantic Water Science Center
Research and Investigations at the South Atlantic Water Science Center
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The South Atlantic Water Science Center conducts research and investigations related to topics such as groundwater and surface-water quality related to anthropogenic and agricultural activities, hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, tracking the movement of groundwater contamination, groundwater resource assessments and modeling, ecological assessments and response to urbanization, and estimating water-use for human and ecological needs. The research and investigations provide the scientific knowledge that engineers, planners and managers can used to make informed water-resources decisions.
The USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC) is comprised of water-science offices throughout Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
The SAWSC conducts research and investigations related to topics such as groundwater and surface-water quality related to anthropogenic and agricultural activities, hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, tracking the movement of groundwater contamination, groundwater resource assessments and modeling, ecological assessments and response to urbanization, and estimating water-use for human and ecological needs. The research and investigations provide the scientific knowledge that engineers, planners and managers can used to make informed water-resources decisions.
► The list below shows our active projects and studies. You can also view a list of archived and completed projects and studies.
MULTI STATE / NATIONAL
- Assessing Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Risk In U.S. National Parks
- Assessment of Water Availability and Streamflow Characteristics in the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative for Current and Future Climatic and Landscape Conditions
- Catawba-Wateree Groundwater Network
- Flood Frequency Information
- Hydrology Monitoring Network: Data Mining and Modeling to Separate Human and Natural Hydrologic Dynamics
- NAWQA Regional Stream Quality Assessment
- StreamStats for Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina
GEORGIA
- Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI) - Southeast Region Water Quality
- Chattahoochee River, Ga. BacteriAlert
- Flood-inundation mapping in Georgia
- Groundwater Monitoring - Albany-Dougherty County Area, Georgia
- Groundwater Monitoring Program for the Augusta–Richmond County Area, Ga.
- Groundwater Monitoring Program for the Brunswick-Glynn County Area, Georgia
- Peachtree Creek WaterWatch - Atlanta, Ga.
- Small Watershed Studies at the Panola Mountain Research Watershed, Georgia
- Southwest Georgia Agricultural Water Conservation and Metering Program
- Water Use in Georgia
NORTH CAROLINA
- Albemarle Sound, NC -- National Monitoring Network Demonstration Site
- Brunswick County, NC Groundwater-Level Monitoring
- Continuous water-quality monitoring at Lake Mattamuskeet
- Effects of land-applied biosolids on water quality in the Jordan Lake Watershed
- Characterization of subsurface bedrock fractures at GMH Electronics EPA Superfund Site near Roxboro, NC
- Evaluation of Nutrients in Durham County Urban Streams
- Factors affecting nitrogen and phosphorus loads in nutrient-sensitive waters of eastern North Carolina
- Fate and transport of pathogens and nutrients from land-applied animal manures
- Flood-inundation mapping in Tar River Basin, North Carolina
- Flood Inundation Mapping in North and South Carolina
- Hydrologic Assessment of New Hanover County, NC Aquifers
- Mid-Currituck Bridge Water Quality, Currituck Sound, North Carolina
- Moore County, NC Groundwater-Level Monitoring
- North Carolina Shale Gas Baseline Groundwater Sampling Project
- Roanoke River Water-Quality Monitoring and Modeling
- Stratification and Water Quality of Jordan Lake
- Surface-Water Quality in Agricultural Watersheds of the North Carolina Coastal Plain Associated with Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
- Triangle Area Water Supply Monitoring
- Water Use in North Carolina
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Application of Phreatophytes to Remediate Contaminated Groundwater Before Discharge to Protected Surface-Water Systems
- Assessment of Groundwater Availability in Aiken County, South Carolina
- Collection and Interpretation of Near Real-Time Surface-Water Quality and Flow Data at Selected Sites in the Waccamaw and Pee Dee River Basins Horry County, South Carolina
- Determination of Changes in Water Quality, Streambed Sediment, and Benthic Macroinvertebrates as a Result of Stormwater Runoff from Selected Bridges in South Carolina
- Development and Application of a Groundwater Flow and Management Model and Assessment of Groundwater Contamination, Chesterfield County Region, South Carolina
- Development of a Guidance Manual for Assessing Scour Using the South Carolina Bridge-Scour Envelope Curves
- Flood Inundation Mapping in North and South Carolina
- Ft. Gordon Stormwater Assessment
- Environmental Fate and Transport of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC), South Carolina
- Investigation of Flow Patterns, Water-Quantity and Water-Quality Conditions in the Bushy Park Reservoir, Charleston, South Carolina
- Low-Flow Frequency and Flow Duration Statistics at Continuous-Record Gages in South Carolina
- Phytoremediation of PAH-Contaminated Groundwater: Contaminant Remediation and Hydrologic Control
- Selected Roadway High-Water Mark Data from Hurricane Joaquin Flooding, October 2015
- Simulation of Groundwater Flow in the Charleston Aquifer near Mount Pleasant, SC – an Update
- South Carolina Hurricane Information
- Update for the South Carolina Atlantic Coastal Plain Groundwater Availability Model
- Water Use in South Carolina