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Drought Watch/Warning Lifted for all Pennsylvania Counties

Drought Watch/Warning Lifted for all Pennsylvania Counties

USGS groundwater and surface water monitoring data contributed to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (PaDEP) March 6, 2024...

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Earthquakes can strike faster than a New York minute – What to do when the ground shakes...

Earthquakes can strike faster than a New York minute – What to do when the ground shakes...

Nearly 75 percent of the U.S. could experience damaging earthquake shaking, including the possibility of damaging earthquakes along the northeastern...

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Pesticides are likely impacting invertebrate life essential to our nation’s streams

Pesticides are likely impacting invertebrate life essential to our nation’s streams

A new nationwide study by USGS scientists provides additional scientific evidence that pesticides are likely negatively impacting aquatic invertebrate...

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Testing New Water Quality Observation Methods In Philadelphia

Testing New Water Quality Observation Methods In Philadelphia

Advances in water quality monitoring technology have made it possible to measure more variables than ever before. 

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USGS is determining extent of flooding in Maine caused by large coastal storm worsened by snowmelt

USGS is determining extent of flooding in Maine caused by large coastal storm worsened by snowmelt

Reporters: Do you want to accompany a U.S. Geological Survey crew as they document how high the flood waters reached in Augusta, Maine, and...

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Web Tool to Inform Stormwater Management in Neponset River Watershed

Web Tool to Inform Stormwater Management in Neponset River Watershed

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is developing an online tool to support...

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Popular Social Media Posts - Fall 2023

Popular Social Media Posts - Fall 2023

Check out the most popular USGS New England Water Science Center social media posts from the last few months of 2023.

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Connecticut Office Moves to Goodwin University Campus

Connecticut Office Moves to Goodwin University Campus

This fall, the East Hartford, Connecticut office of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) New England Water Science Center relocated to the campus of...

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USGS partners with six states to map critical mineral potential with cutting-edge data

USGS partners with six states to map critical mineral potential with cutting-edge data

RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey will invest more than $3.5 million to map critical mineral resources in partnership with the geological...

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Media Alert: Low-Level Flights to Image Geology Over Parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee

Media Alert: Low-Level Flights to Image Geology Over Parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee

Editor: In the public interest and in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne...

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