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USGS scientist recording at Ellerbe Creek, Durham, NC

Thermoelectric power plant Bowen owned by Georgia Power Company, from Highway 113, Euharlee, Bartow County, Georgia. Plant Bowen is one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the United States. Plant Bowen uses recirculating cooling, decreasing the amount of water that must be withdrawn.

A hydrologic technician from the USGS Idaho Water Science Center measures streamflow in Lightning Creek at Clark Fork, ID. The USGS is collecting data at hundreds of sites on rivers and streams in six western states to document the 2015 drought. USGS scientists will analyze the data to identify which rivers and streams may be most vulnerable to future droughts.

Map of monitoring locations on Lake Mattamuskeet

This green tree frog (Hyla cinerea) sits on the lip of a pitcher plant in a bog in Alabama. The frog was down in the pitcher plant, but moved up to rest on its edge as the photographer approached.

USGS and FWS working together at Lake Mattamuskeet

An ARMI amphibian monitoring site at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Wakulla County, Florida.

Hydrologist calibrating a station at Lake Mattamuskeet

Hydrologist servicing a station on Lake Mattamuskeet

This diagram uses a "cylinder and pipe" layout to show the source (surface water or groundwater) of the North Carolina's freshwater and for what purposes the water was used in 2010. The data are broken out for each category of use by surface water and groundwater as the source.

This diagram uses a "cylinder and pipe" layout to show the source (surface water or groundwater) of the North Carolina's freshwater and for what purposes the water was used in 2010. The data are broken out for each category of use by surface water and groundwater as the source.

This diagram uses a "cylinder and pipe" layout to show the source (surface water or groundwater) of the North Carolina's freshwater and for what purposes the water was used in 2010. The data are broken out for each category of use by surface water and groundwater as the source.

Landscape view Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina

► Project: Continuous Water-Quality Monitoring at Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina

Hillabahatchee Creek, GA; Nick Henry and Jeff Riley doing Rich Target Habitat (RTH) sampling.

Chris Walls (left) and Alan Cressler (right) at Kingfisher Pond, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Panacea Unit, Wakulla County, Florida

Aneides aeneus (Green salamander) Howards Waterfall Cave, Southeastern Cave Conservancy Preserve, Dade County, Georgia 1.

USGS scientists measured the concentrations of select endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in Spirit Creek, Georgia, as part of an assessment of the effects of the closure of a wastewater treatment plant. Sprit Creek is typical of a stream in coastal environments.

Water quality sampling in a creek, Atlanta, Georgia
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Scientists from the USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center are sampling Sope Creek, Cobb County, west of Atlanta, Georgia. 

Peachtree Creek at Atlanta (USGS 02336300) Water Monitoring Site

Epic flooding conditions at Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Ga., September 2009.

Epic Flooding in Georgia, 2009

Metropolitan Atlanta—September 2009 Floods