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By Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center June 24, 2017

About the Louisiana Water Science Center

Office Locations

What We Do

Data Collection

Database Capabilities

Database Capabilities

USGS data are stored and maintained in long-term, quality-assured data bases. The data bases contain data for Louisiana and the rest of the nation and are accessible to the public. The data include:

Streamflow, reservoir, and lake data

Ground-water data

Continuous and discrete water-quality data

Water-use data

Geographic Information System (GIS) data

Surface-water graph

NWIS - the USGS Data Archive

As part of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) program for disseminating water data within USGS, to USGS cooperators, and to the general public, the USGS maintains a distributed network of computers and fileservers for the acquisition, processing, review, and long-term storage of water data. This water data is collected at over 1.5 million sites around the country and at some border and...
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New York Water Science Center
NWIS - the USGS Data Archive

NWIS - the USGS Data Archive

As part of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) program for disseminating water data within USGS, to USGS cooperators, and to the general public, the USGS maintains a distributed network of computers and fileservers for the acquisition, processing, review, and long-term storage of water data. This water data is collected at over 1.5 million sites around the country and at some border and...
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About the Louisiana Water Science Center

Office Locations

What We Do

Data Collection

Database Capabilities

Database Capabilities

USGS data are stored and maintained in long-term, quality-assured data bases. The data bases contain data for Louisiana and the rest of the nation and are accessible to the public. The data include:

Streamflow, reservoir, and lake data

Ground-water data

Continuous and discrete water-quality data

Water-use data

Geographic Information System (GIS) data

Surface-water graph

NWIS - the USGS Data Archive

As part of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) program for disseminating water data within USGS, to USGS cooperators, and to the general public, the USGS maintains a distributed network of computers and fileservers for the acquisition, processing, review, and long-term storage of water data. This water data is collected at over 1.5 million sites around the country and at some border and...
By
New York Water Science Center
NWIS - the USGS Data Archive

NWIS - the USGS Data Archive

As part of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) program for disseminating water data within USGS, to USGS cooperators, and to the general public, the USGS maintains a distributed network of computers and fileservers for the acquisition, processing, review, and long-term storage of water data. This water data is collected at over 1.5 million sites around the country and at some border and...
Learn More
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