Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads
The Hampton Roads region consists of ten independent cities, six counties and one independent town, all within the Virginia Coastal Plain. This urban region faces many challenges, including water quality degradation in urban streams, reduced groundwater availability, and land subsidence. Browse our studies located in Hampton Roads below.
Hampton Roads Regional Water Quality Monitoring Program
Hampton Roads Regional Water Quality Monitoring Program
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Hampton Roads Water Quality Dashboard
Hampton Roads Water Quality Dashboard
View realtime data, sampling data, and current conditions for the Hampton Roads Regional Water Quality Monitoring Network using our water quality dashboard.
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Hampton Roads Benchmark Monitoring Network
The southern Chesapeake Bay region is experiencing land subsidence along with rising sea levels, both of which can contribute to coastal flooding. The rates at which these two processes are occurring are not exactly known. Mapping of land elevation change requires ground-truth survey data at multiple locations that are accurate and precise. With the exception of a few CORS sites that have...
Hampton Roads Regional Water Quality Monitoring Program
In 2015, the U.S. Geological Survey partnered with the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) in cooperation with the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission to implement a water-quality monitoring program in six major cities across the Hampton Roads region. This long-term monitoring program consists of a network of 12 water-quality monitoring stations, 2 per jurisdiction, across the cities...
Virginia Beach Shallow Groundwater Resources
The purpose of the Virginia Beach shallow aquifer study is to better understand the distribution of fresh groundwater, its susceptibility to contamination, and its sustainability as a long-term water supply. Virginia Beach is a growing city in southeastern Virginia with a limited supply of fresh water. Most of the city’s drinking water, up to 45 million gallons per day, comes from Lake Gaston. The...