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Looking downstream along the cowpasture river.

Dry wash in San Rafael Desert with white surface salts. White efflorescent salts form on the soil surface as water evaporates from the soil leaving the salt at the surface. 

Monitoring equipment at Frio River at Concan, Tex.

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Is this cemetery haunted? Probably not, but there could be tiny things moving beyond the grave. The USGS sampled groundwater downhill of Mt. Hope Cemetery in Lansing, Michigan, to find out if materials associated with decomposition and burial processes could affect groundwater quality near a cemetery.

USGS technician measuring streamflow in the Sisquoc River near Garey, California, upstream of the Santa Maria Mesa Road Bridge.

 USGS Streamgaging equipment and cableway on the Pit River near Canby, California operates year round.

A photo of the Roanoke River Valley at Sunset.

Water monitoring at Little Stony Creek above Archer Trail near Pembroke, VA

Monitoring Spruce Creek at Route 627 near Nellysford, VA

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USGS groundwater site 414831072173002 in Tolland County, Connecticut, near the Hydrogeophysics Branch office.

Is this cemetery haunted? Probably not, but there could be tiny things moving beyond the grave. The USGS sampled groundwater downhill of Mt. Hope Cemetery in Lansing, Michigan, to find out if materials associated with decomposition and burial processes could affect groundwater quality near a cemetery.

USGS hydrographer measuring streamflow using a handheld Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter in fast moving floodwater Cajon Creek near Keenbrook, California. 

USGS Streamgaging Station in northern Nevada. 

USGS technician measuring streamflow in northern Nevada.

Monitoring Ramseys Draft at Route 716 near West Augusta

Muddy Creek in the San Rafael Swell with white surface salts. 

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