Images

Highway 11 at Lake Pontchartrain

This picture shows two people on a boat in a river. One person is driving the boat and is in the boat cabin with the middle door being open. In the front of the boat, there is a person on the starboard side of the boat and is leaning over the water with their right hand holding onto a sensor.

Screen capture of ModelMate with the parameters visible. ModelMate can be used for parameter estimation with ModelMuse.

Sediment sampling and surrogates. Sediment work using physical samplers, laser diffraction, and acoustics on the Illinois River near Chillicothe, Illinois, May 11, 2011.

Measuring discharge during May 2011 Memphis, Tennessee flood

Hydrologic Technicians Donnie Keeling (Murray, KY) and Trent Legg (Mt. Vernon, IL) clean debris from road bridge in the lower end of the New Madrid Floodway so a boat can be launched to measure outflow of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Rising waters  near Morganza, LA before the opening of the Morganza Spillway.

USGS Louisiana Water Science Center (LA WSC) crew on a flooded road

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Hydrologic Technicians Donnie Keeling (Murray, KY) and Trent Legg (Mt. Vernon, IL) clean debris from road bridge in the lower end of the New Madrid Floodway so a boat can be launched to measure outflow of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.

This image displays a screen capture of the main ModelMuse form with a MODFLOW-LGR model.

Flooding on the White River required closing of Interstate 40 near DeValls Bluff, Arkansas. USGS is monitoring the floodwaters by installing temporary streamgages.

USGS boat crew prepares for a discharge measurement during May 2011 Memphis, Tennessee flooding

Flood of May 3, 2011, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07069000, Black River at Pocahontas, Arkansas. Photograph by D.M. Wagner, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

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Flood of May 3, 2011, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07069000, Black River at Pocahontas, Arkansas. Photograph by D.M. Wagner, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

Measuring discharge below the New Madrid Floodway breach