Of Interest...
Recreational Water Quality Nowcast for Ohio Inland Lakes.
06/03/2010
-- In the future, before you head to one of Ohio’s inland lake beaches, you may be
able to check the predicted water quality that morning just like you can with
the Ohio Nowcast already operational at two Lake Erie beaches and the Cuyahoga
River. “The Nowcast system is similar to a weather forecast except that current
water-quality conditions instead of future conditions are estimated,” said Donna
Francy, USGS research hydrologist for the study. The water-quality models used for the Nowcasts are beach-specific. The
beaches
to be sampled this summer and tested for Nowcast models (news
release) include Ohio Department
of Natural Resources beaches at Grand Lake St. Mary’s (news
release), Buck Creek State Park (CJ Brown Reservoir,
news release), Buckeye Lake, and Alum
Creek Reservoir and Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District beaches at Atwood
Lake and Tappan Lake.
Call for Abstracts: Ground Water Conference - Oct. 4-7, 2010.
06/01/2010
-- The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency,
and USGS Ohio Water Science Center are sponsoring the
55th Midwest Ground Water Conference in Columbus. The conference
provides an opportunity for hydrogeologists, geologists, engineers, students,
and others studying groundwater resources to meet and exchange ideas, discuss
mutual problems affecting the Midwest, and summarize results of field and
laboratory studies.
Abstracts for oral presentations and posters are due June 25.
Instant Information about Water Conditions by Text Message or E-mail.
05/19/2010
-- Now you can receive instant, customized updates about water conditions by
subscribing to
WaterAlert, a new service from the U.S. Geological Survey. Whether you are
watching for floods, interested in recreational activities or concerned about
the quality of water in your well,
WaterAlert allows you to receive daily or hourly updates about current
conditions in rivers, lakes and groundwater when they match conditions of
concern to you (more).
Another service,
StreaMail, allows you to query a USGS gaging site for current gage height
and streamflow.
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