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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

Measuring discharge below the New Madrid Floodway breach

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.

Researchers setting a trap to collect specimens in nearshore coastal waters

USGS Hydrographer measures streamflow at Birds Point-New Madrid floodway using a tethered acoustic Doppler current profiling from a moving boat. USGS scientists are measuring the amount of water spilling into the New Madrid floodway as a result of the recent intentional breaching of the Birds Point Levee in Missouri in support of the Corps of Engineers operation.

USGS Missouri Water Science Center Deputy Director near inflow/outflow of the levee breach near New Madrid, MO. USGS scientists are measuring the amount of water spilling into the New Madrid floodway as a result of the recent intentional breaching of the Birds Point Levee in Missouri in support of the Corps of Engineers operation.

USGS Arkansas Water Science Cneter technicians measuring the flow across a US Highway being passed by a fan boat.

USGS National Flood Specialist answers questions for CNN at the Birds Point-NewMadrid Floodway. USGS scientists are measuring the amount of water spilling into the New Madrid floodway as a result of the recent intentional breaching of the Birds Point Levee in Missouri in support of the Corps of Engineers operation.

USGS employee Tedd Wallace taking flow measurments with a teathered boat on the Black River at Black Rock, AR.  Waters reached 16 feet above floodstage.

April 27, 2011, flooding of the Souris (Mouse) River near Westhope, North Dakota. The small building is the U.S. Geological Survey gage house and is normally on the river bank and raised so that one needs to take stairs up to get into the gage house. There is also an access road next to the gage house and electrical pole.

USGS employees Joey Fleming and Steve Flants taking flow measurements on the Black River at Black Rock, AR.  Waters reached 16 feet above floodstage.

USGS employee Tedd Wallace taking flow measurments with a teathered boat on the Black River at Black Rock, AR.  Waters reached 16 feet above floodstage.

April 27, 2011, flooding of the Souris (Mouse) River near Westhope, North Dakota. The small building is the U.S. Geological Survey gage house and is normally on the river bank and raised so that one needs to take stairs up to get into the gage house. There is also an access road next to the gage house and electrical pole.

USGS field crew taking measurments of the Gasconade River at Jerome, MO.  The measurement was taken using an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) on a tethered boat.

USGS employees Joey Fleming and Steve Flants taking flow measurements on the Black River at Black Rock, AR.  Waters reached 16 feet above floodstage.

USGS scientist, Paul Brenden makes a flood measurement on the Big Piney near Big Piney Missouri. 

Flood of April 25, 2011, at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamflow-gaging station 07048490, Town Branch tributary at Highway 16 at Fayetteville, Arkansas. Photograph by D.M. Wagner, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.