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CURRENT PROJECTS (2008)

The following projects represent the hydrologic investigations and studies that the New Hampshire-Vermont Water Science Center has underway. These projects are conducted through cooperative studies with State and local agencies, interagency agreements with other Federal agencies and through USGS programs. For more information about USGS cooperative studies, contact the Water Science Director.

NATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES

1) NAWQA: New England Coastal Basins Study Unit

2) Web-based CT River Watershed Atlas

3) National Hydrography Dataset catchment delineation (GIS)

4) Northeastern United States regional SPARROW model

5) Characterization of New England watersheds for an urban intensity index

6) New England crystalline bedrock water quality

7) Trends in fish-tissue mercury concentrations in the United States

8) Influences of urbanization on algal communities in selected urban areas of the United States

9) Trace elements in the nation's ground waters

 

VERMONT STUDIES

1) Best Management Practices in the Lake Champlain Basin

2) Sleepers River Water Energy and Biogeochemical Budgets (WEBB)

3) Mt. Mansfield: Hydrology and water quality of headwater streams

4) Mercury and methyl-mercury movement in the Lake Champlain Basin

5) Pike Hill and Ely Mines Superfund Sites: Solid mine wastes and drainage, and trace metals

6) Impacts on water quality from road deicing

7) Emerging contaminants of concern in the Lake Champlain Basin

8) Relations between turbidity and suspended sediment in Allen Brook

NEW HAMPSHIRE STUDIES

1) Ground-water resources in southeastern New Hampshire (Seacoast)

2) Remediation effectiveness of the OU1 Area/Savage Superfund Site

3) Estimating current and future water demand in New Hampshire

4) April 2007 flood in New Hampshire

5) Flood recovery mapping of the Suncook River in Epsom, Allenstown, and Pembroke, NH

6) Sediment transport modeling of the Suncook River

7) Flood frequency analysis for New Hampshire streams

 

 


COMPLETED PROJECTS

 

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Last Updated April 7, 2008
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