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Lockes Mill fiber-optic temperature monitoring study area on the Shenandoah River.  Looking upstream.

Lockes Mill fiber-optic temperature monitoring study area on the Shenandoah River. Location of subaqueous spring discharge identified using a 300-meter fiber-optic line.  Looking downstream.

Lockes Mill fiber-optic temperature monitoring study area on the Shenandoah River. Location of subaqueous spring discharge identified on the 300-meter fiber-optic line.  Looking upstream.

Opequon Creek. View from USGS streamflow gaging station 01615000 near Berryville.

Streamflow data for this site can be viewed on Water Data for the Nation here.

Stream flowing in Highland County Virginia, June 26, 2006. Photograph by Samuel H Austin.

Streamwater flowing over a rural road in Highland County, Virginia, June, 2006.

Resource professionals stand in the rain beside a mountain stream.

Well 47X 89 is a hand dug and stone-lined well in which water levels were measured quarterly by the USGS. Well depth is 30.9 feet. Wells like this one are susceptible to current conditions.

Well 46W175 was the first real-time USGS well in Clarke County.  Water levels are recorded every 15 minutes and transmitted every hour via satellite and displayed on the USGS Water Data for the Nation website.  This

Wrights Branch upstream of Route 638. Wrights Branch is located in Clarke County, Virginia.

Flooding in Appomattox River at Matoaca

Dry Marsh Run about 300 feet downstream of spring 46XS 8.  On this day in April 2003, the measured discharge at the spring was 3.69 cubic feet per second, which is equal to 1,660 gallons per minute, which was reflected in the discharge measurements of Dry Marsh Run.

Spring 46XS 8 during a period of flow. This spring feeds Dry Marsh Run in Clarke County, Virginia. On this day in April 2003, the measured discharge was 3.69 cubic feet per second, which is equal to 1,660 gallons per minute.

Image of the original extensometer at Franklin, Virginia, which recorded aquifer compaction from 1979 to 1995.

Originally published in:

The original Suffolk Extensometer was installed in 1982, with a period of record extending up to 1995, when it was decommissioned. 

Well 46W179 is a hand dug and stone-lined well in which water levels and temperature were recorded every hour with a submersible pressure transducer and data logger and downloaded every quarter from April of 2003 to April

Well 46X122 is a drilled well that once was pumped by a windmill system.

Dry Marsh Run at Rt. 645 bridge downstream of streamflow gaging station USGS 01616100 near Berryville.

Streamflow data for this site can be viewed on Water Data for the Nation here.

Spout Run at Rt. 621 bridge upstream of streamflow gaging station USGS 01636316 near Millwood.

You can see streamflow data for this site at USGS Water Data for the Nation here.

Waterfall on Spout Run downstream of streamflow gaging station USGS 01636316 at Rt. 621 near Millwood

Dry stream segment of Dry Marsh Run in the northwestern part of Clarke County, Virginia.  Upstream of the Rt. 635 bridge.

This region of Clarke County is locally referred to as the "Arabian Plain".