Water Data for the Nation

• Real Time Data

• USGS WaterWatch
  • Current hydrologic conditions
  • Floods | Droughts
  • Surface water quality
  • Groundwater levels

• Historical data
  • Streamflow
  • Ground water
  • Water quality
  • Annual Data Reports
  • Instantaneous Data Archive (IDA)

Water Programs

• • Office of Surface Water
  • Office of Groundwater
  • Office of Water Quality
  • National Water Information System
  • National Water Quality Assessment

ABOUT THE HIF

• • Office information
    • Location
    • Employee directory
  • HIF History

USGS IN YOUR STATE

USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state.

Facilities at the Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility

Warehouse

The HIF warehouse occupies over 10,000 square feet of space and maintains over 1000 active stock items needed for the support of USGS field hydrologic data collection activities. The HIF warehouse is responsible for the shipping and receiving of all products, arranging for transportation, maintaining inventory control of stock, analyzing stock levels and determining needs for re-supply and maintaining warehouse facilities and equipment.

All equipment purchased for the HIF warehouse is subjected to quality-assurance inspection to ensure the equipment functions properly, meets the manufacturer's specifications, and meets any additional USGS requirements. The scope of quality assurance varies with complexity of the products, a manufacturer’s past performance, and quantity procured. Some items, such as off-the-shelf connectors, screws, nuts, bolts, etc only require a level low level inspection of a small sample of the total number procurred. Other items, such as pressure transducers, require extensive testing of every item at multiple temperatures and pressures. Approximately ten percent of all shipments do not pass QA inspection, and are returned to the manufacturer.