Pennsylvania Water Science Center
USGS Releases Products Documenting Effects of Hurricane Ida
Updating Pennsylvania Streamgage Datums
USGS is updating streamgage datums to reflect elevations in North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88).
Nitrogen in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - A Century of Change
USGS Collects High-Quality Water-Resources Data for Pennsylvania
Streamflow, groundwater levels, water quality, precipitation, water use, and other related data, both real time and historic
Hydrologic Studies, Research, and Tools for Pennsylvania
Water availability, groundwater contamination, nutrient loading in streams, effects of land use on water quality, and other water-resource topics
Pennsylvania Water Science Center
We work in cooperation with numerous federal, state, and local agencies to collect scientific data and conduct scientific studies of the source, quantity, quality, ecology, and use of Pennsylvania's water resources.
News
USGS Updates Pennsylvania Drought Condition Web Tool
Drought Watch/Warning Lifted for all Pennsylvania Counties
Testing New Water Quality Observation Methods In Philadelphia
Publications
Results of 2018–19 water-quality and hydraulic characterization of aquifer intervals using packer tests and preliminary geophysical-log correlations for selected boreholes at and near the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylva
Evaluating water-quality trends in agricultural watersheds prioritized for management-practice implementation
Legacy sediment as a potential source of orthophosphate: Preliminary conceptual and geochemical models for the Susquehanna River, Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA
Nutrient pollution from agriculture and urban areas plus acid mine drainage (AMD) from legacy coal mines are primary causes of water-quality impairment in the Susquehanna River, which is the predominant source of freshwater and nutrients entering the Chesapeake Bay. Recent increases in the delivery of dissolved orthophosphate (PO4) from the river to the bay may be linked to long-term increases in