Images

Great Lakes water availability studies conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey aim to help characterize how much water the Basin has now, how water availability is changing, and how much water it can expect to have in the future.

USGS river gage at Hickson, ND along the Red River of the North.

A bridge board and current meter being used to measure the streamflow on Pembina River at Neche, ND.

Buoys are attached to trotlines deployed in the Lower Missouri River.

Red River of the North at Halstad, Minnesota, on April 1, 2011, just prior to ice breaking up.

Storm clouds over the Missouri River.

Performing double duties of tracking and collecting acoustic images, Chad Vishy operates one of his three computers and five screens necessary to simultaneously collect this variety of data.

Dredging the entrance canal to the Caloosahatcee River in Moore Haven, FL.

Photo taken from above the Lago Icacos Damsite.

Alicia Torregrosa is downloading data from a phenocam on BLM land in Idaho.

Colorado River view.

Beth Stettner checks out the location of the IWRSS MOU signing.

Cattle Ranch with typically 100 head of cattle currently flooded from the spring melt of higher than average snow accumulation.

Work Continues even when Silvies River is about to flood over the bridge.

Our datalogger is attached to the bridge and much to our surprise, a dump truck drives across the bridge as we were contemplating the safety of crossing on foot.

Employee collectiing Water Quality data with instrument YSI 556mps handheld in creek swollen from spring melt.

Storm clouds moving in over the park entrance.

Tribal members welcome "families" from other Salish Sea Indian and First Nation Tribes.

This photo from our second cross section is an example of significant changes to the river. Data was collected from this location in 2009 from a manned boat, with no issue. Upon return to the same cross section in 2013 we found a 2-4 ft hydraulic feature exposed. Backwater from the Great Works Dam hid this feature previously. 

A photo from August 2013 after removal of the Great Works Dam, showing the old concrete, wood and stone cribbing upstream of where the dam used to be.

A photo from August 2013 showing the cribbing upstream of where the dam used to be. See the photo titled 'Station 4 2009' for a picture from before the dam was removed from the same general perspective.

The Hell Creek and underlying Fox Hills Formations are present at the land surface along the margins of the Williston Basin, but otherwise are the deepest bedrock aquifers that are commonly used in the basin.