Images

The USGS Big Thompson River at Loveland streamgage, pictured here, was damaged during the September 2013 Colorado flood event. USGS crews installed a temporary streamgage nearby to compensate for the lag in data.

The Big Thompson River is one of many that flooded during a significant September 2013 rain event along Colorado's Front Range, damaging or destroying several USGS streamgages.

Precipitation data collected in the 7 days before September 18, 2013

Buckeye Lake at Crystal Beach, OH; Chris Ecker and Carrie Hitger measuring water quality parameters.

This bridge is at 75th Street east of Boulder showing Boulder Creek at flood stage (5000 cfs) on Friday, September 13, 2013. When looking west (upstream), the USGS streamgage is on the right.

This flooded culvert is located on Monarch Road just east of the Diagonal Highway in Boulder, Colo.

Numerous rivers flooded during a significant September 2013 rain event along Colorado's Front Range, damaging or destroying several USGS streamgages. In response, USGS field crews measured flood flows, made gage repairs, and assessed sites to replace those gages destroyed. 

Numerous rivers flooded during a significant September 2013 rain event along Colorado's Front Range, damaging or destroying several USGS streamgages. In response, USGS field crews measured flood flows, made gage repairs, and assessed sites to replace those gages destroyed. 

A turbid Lost Dog Creek tumbles down steep slopes before feeding Lake Oswego.

Tanner Creek outfall delivers stormwater runoff with insecticides to Tanner Creek, tributary of the Willamette River

Loch Vale Watershed in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Loch Vale Watershed in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Loch Vale Watershed in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Salmon Creek at Bruno Road near Seward, AK; Paul Schauer running a level survey for the streambed scour project.

A USGS employee, is performing a sediment sampling on Barnegat Bay, NJ after Super Storm Sandy.

USGS scientists are working alongside University researchers in Alaska to understand how groundwater and permafrost conditions change over time due to seasonal variations and climate change. August 2013 view of oil pipeline.

An ebony jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata) perched on a blade of grass in the foreground with a flowing stream in the background

South Toe River near Celo, NC, Oran Mosteller streamgaging.

Sediment sampling off the coast of Long Island, NY.

Rock Creek at Sherrill Drive, Washington, DC; staff gage.

Summer Intern Tyler Choe cleaning the sediment out of the beaker.