Cooperative Water Program
The Cooperative Water Program monitors and assesses water in every State, protectorate, and territory of the U.S. in partnership with nearly 1,600 local, State, and Tribal agencies. <read more>
Features
New Online Water Quality Data Repository available for the Piceance Basin in northwestern Colorado undergoing large-scale energy development
Enhanced flood technology gets streamflow information out faster in Des Moines, Iowa (News story)
Flood inundation map libraries for Indiana Communities
Tracking invasion of zebra mussels in lakes in North Texas (Contacts: Amy Beussink, ambeussi@usgs.gov and Tim Raines, thraines@usgs.gov; http://tx.usgs.gov/)
New Products
Our Mission
"The Mission of the USGS Cooperative Water Program is to provide reliable, impartial, and timely information needed to understand the Nation's water resources through a program of shared efforts and funding with State, Tribal, and local partners to enable decision makers to wisely manage the Nation's water resources."
Informing Stakeholders
“The completion of the third phase of [the Wood River Valley aquifer system project in south-central Idaho] represents what patient collaboration can accomplish with committed partners. When viewed as a community investment, this benchmark study will continue to pay dividends of truly informed development decisions in the Wood River Valley for decades or perhaps centuries to come.” Jim Bartolino, Blaine County, Idaho, Commissioner (Read more…)
"The new flood technology on USGS streamgages on Iowa's rivers will help prepare people for dangerous situations like the flash floods of 2010 in East Des Moines. In a lot of cases, minutes mean lives. And that's exactly what this provides us. It's a higher resolution look at the amount of water entering our stream systems." AJ Mumm, Polk County, Iowa, Emergency Manager
Washington State Department of Ecology uses USGS models to quantify the effects of groundwater pumping on streams and to define “groundwater reserve” areas for accommodating new permit-exempt wells in basins that are closed to additional surface-water rights (Press release; USGS report)
The City of Newport News in Virginia is reassessing “safe yields” from Chickahominy River water-supply intakes based on CWP findings on changing salinity due to sea level rise. (USGS report)
Wake County managers in North Carolina use USGS groundwater information collected in fractured-bedrock to manage dewatering, water use, and water supplies. (USGS Report)
State of Mississippi uses CWP irrigation-conservation models for decisions on irrigation use and conservation management in the Mississippi Delta. (USGS report)
Beginning with a CWP project in Austin, Texas, continued USGS assessments led to new regulations by the State of Washington on the use of coal-tar sealcoat on parking lots, driveways, and other pavement—a major source of toxic PAHs to aquatic life. (Journal article; USGS Fact Sheet)
The Spartanburg, South Carolina Regional Water System uses CWP research to minimize harmful algal blooms in their public supplies. (USGS report)
City of Wichita, Kansas uses real-time surrogate estimates of water quality and other USGS research to manage drinking-water supplies from Cheney Reservoir and to manage artificial recharge in the Equus beds aquifer. (USGS reports; City of Wichita Equus Beds Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project)
The Alaska Department of Transportation closed Copper River Highway based on CWP long-term streambed and bridge scour assessments. (Story)
Stakeholders Speak:
Managing Water Above and Below - Stakeholder Webinar, March 21st, 2012 (PDF
Presentation, 10MB)
Summaries of Cooperator Roundtables
- Colorado River Basin (meeting book)
- Pacific Northwest
- Florida
- Mid-Atlantic Region
- Ohio River Basin
- Upper Missouri River Basin
- Upper Mississippi River Basin
- Southeast
- California
- New England
- National Stakeholder Meeting in Washington D.C.
