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Chesapeake Bay coast at St. Michaels, Maryland

Water quality sampling from the bridge over the Pamunkey River using a weighted D-95 water sampler. Near Hanover, Virginia.

This site is the location of a River Input Monitoring (RIM) Station.

Crabtree Falls in Nelson County Virginia

Flooded road in Highland County Virginia.

Lockes Mill fiber-optic temperature monitoring study area on the Shenandoah River.  Looking upstream.

Lockes Mill fiber-optic temperature monitoring study area on the Shenandoah River. Location of subaqueous spring discharge identified using a 300-meter fiber-optic line.  Looking downstream.

Lockes Mill fiber-optic temperature monitoring study area on the Shenandoah River. Location of subaqueous spring discharge identified on the 300-meter fiber-optic line.  Looking upstream.

Opequon Creek. View from USGS streamflow gaging station 01615000 near Berryville.

Streamflow data for this site can be viewed on Water Data for the Nation here.

Stream flowing in Highland County Virginia, June 26, 2006. Photograph by Samuel H Austin.

Resource professionals stand in the rain beside a mountain stream.

Streamwater flowing over a rural road in Highland County, Virginia, June, 2006.

Well 47X 89 is a hand dug and stone-lined well in which water levels were measured quarterly by the USGS. Well depth is 30.9 feet. Wells like this one are susceptible to current conditions.

Well 46W175 was the first real-time USGS well in Clarke County.  Water levels are recorded every 15 minutes and transmitted every hour via satellite and displayed on the USGS Water Data for the Nation website.  This

Wrights Branch upstream of Route 638. Wrights Branch is located in Clarke County, Virginia.

Flooding in Appomattox River at Matoaca

Spring 46XS 8 during a period of flow. This spring feeds Dry Marsh Run in Clarke County, Virginia. On this day in April 2003, the measured discharge was 3.69 cubic feet per second, which is equal to 1,660 gallons per minute.

Dry Marsh Run about 300 feet downstream of spring 46XS 8.  On this day in April 2003, the measured discharge at the spring was 3.69 cubic feet per second, which is equal to 1,660 gallons per minute, which was reflected in the discharge measurements of Dry Marsh Run.

The Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia in winter, partially iced over. 

This site is the location of a River Input Monitoring (RIM) Station.

Image of the original extensometer at Franklin, Virginia, which recorded aquifer compaction from 1979 to 1995.

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The original Suffolk Extensometer was installed in 1982, with a period of record extending up to 1995, when it was decommissioned. 

View of the Mattaponi River form the sampling bridge.

This site is the location of a River Input Monitoring (RIM) Station.

Station data: Mattaponi River Near Beulahville, VA - USGS Water Data for the Nation