U.S. Geological Survey
Office of Surface Water
National Surface Water Conference and Hydroacoustics Workshop
April 2 – 6, 2007
St. Louis, Missouri

Second Photographic Competition


Category: 2. Gage

(32 images)


Other Categories: 1. Disasters || 3. SW Field Work || 4. Hydroacoustic || 5. Public Service || 6. Historical
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001_2

1st USGS Gage

September 15, 2005

Rio Grande at Embudo, NM
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007_1

Real-time gage, Lower Miss. R.

February 7, 2007

Scott Mize inspects the real-time gage at the public dock, lower Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, LA, site ID 07374000


(NOTE: Original as a TIF 007_1
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008_1

Site 3A-5

February 6, 2007

Photo of site 3A-5, co-located with station 260324080421900, in Florida Everglades Water Conservation Area 3A
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013_03

Honduras real-time streamgage

September 2004

Looking downstream from upstream left bank
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014_02

Animas Tall Timber

November 29, 2006

Animas River near Tall Timber Resort gage
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001_1

Coney C., WY

June 10, 2005

Coney Creek above Twin Lakes near Bighorn, WY
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003_2

Mammoth Spring Gagehouse

June 15, 2004

Gage located in Mammoth Spring State Park. 07069190 Mammoth Spring at Mammoth Spring, Arkansas.

(Note: Also entered as most scenic gage)
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Tigris River Staff Gage

April 19, 2006

Staff gage on Tigris River at Feish Khabour, Iraq

(Note: also listed as hardest to get to / farthest from office gage)
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005_2

Tigris River Discharge

April 20, 2006

ADCP measurement of Tigris River at Feish Khabour, Iraq

(Note: also listed in hydroacoustics category)
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programming

June 15, 2006

Entering SDI-12 commands into a laptop to program a HIF PS-2 pressure sensor, the PS-2 is connected to a data collection platform which is hidden by the laptop, pictured: Lindsay Burt.
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outside staff

September 18, 2006

Attaching the staff plate on a post, behind them is a trench for placing the pressure line between the stream and the gage house at Franktown Creek near Carson City, NV, pictured: Emil Stockton (left) and Lindsay Burt (right).
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007_2

Real-time gage, Pass Manchac, LA

September 12, 2006

The USGS installation monitors stage, directional velocity, and 5 water-quality parameters at this tidally-affected pass into Lake Pontchartrain, LA.
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007_3

Long term SW gage at sunset.

February 17, 2004

Whisky Chitto Creek nr. Oberlin, La. Period of record at this site (08014500) is 1939-present.
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Real-time gage, Lower Miss. R.

February 7, 2007

Full frame: Public dock on the lower Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on which the USGS has installed and operates surface water and water quality instrumentation

Inset: Scott Mize inspects the real-time gage at the public dock, lower Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, LA


(NOTE: Original as a TIF 007_4
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008_2

Aerial photo of site 3A-5

May 8, 2006

Aerial photo of site 3A-5, co-located with station 260324080421900, in Florida Everglades Water Conservation Area 3A, taken during dry-season servicing trip.
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009_2

Mountain Gage

June 8, 2005

USGS Streamflow Gaging Station on the upper Colorado River
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010_01

Lake profiler

Fall 2006

This is one of three real-time, multi-depth lake profiling systems deployed in Lake Houston, Texas (possibly 295554095093401)
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010_03

Micromet Raft

January 9, 2004

Frank Heitmuller and William Asquith servicing 20+ parameter micromet platform (station 313511097122801) on Lake Waco, Texas. (Site is now discontinued.)
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010_13

Weir construction

April 16, 2001

Milton Sunvison performs finishing touches on aluminum and concrete weir at 08167347 Un-named Honey Creek tributary Site 1C near Spring Branch, Texas.
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Stilling Well flooded

May 16, 2006

Ipswich River near Ipswich MA, stilling well float above floor level.
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ADCP Crashed

May 15, 2006

Jerry Girouard, MA/RI WSC, looks at the damage to the ADCP caused by flooding on the Merrimack River in Lowell, MA

(Note: also listed under SW field work and Hydroacoustics categories)
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012_01

Wildfire Sunset

2003

Wildfire Sunset
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013_01

Honduras real-time streamgage

September 2004

Looking toward left (west) bank at gage house and walkway
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013_04

African RADAR gage

August 2002

Looking across the downstream side of the bridge at Shane Stocks and Baemedi Letsholatebe programming continuous pulse RADAR gage
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014_01

Fraser R. Winter Pk

February 10, 2006

Fraser River near Winger Park gage
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015_01

Montgomery gage and control

July 6, 2004

Fox River at Montgomery, IL streamflow gaging station and control
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015_02

Montgomery control

July 6, 2004

Low head dam and control for USGS streamflow gaging station, Fox River at Montgomery, IL

(Note: also listed under SW Field Work category)
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Tigris River, Iraq

April, 2006

Tigris River at Feish Khabour, Iraq

(Note: also listed as hardest to get to / farthest from office gage)
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018_03

Fallen Giant

December, 1999

Fallen Giant--Harpeth River at Bellevue, TN (03433500)
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018_04

Bellevue History

1933 - 2001

Harpeth River at Bellevue, TN (03433500) -- a pictorial history

(Note: also listed in historic category)
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019_01

Pit River near Canby, CA gage

March 8, 2007

Pit River near Canby, CA, Station ID 11348500.

(Note: also listed as must scenic and Farthest from office (as the crow flies) at 95 miles)
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019_02

Deer Creek near Vina, CA gage

March 13, 2007

Deer Creek near Vina, CA, Station ID 11383500

(Note: also listed as most scenic)
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022_3

Lamprey River

May 16, 2006

Installation of a temporary gage at the Lamprey River near Newmarket, NH


(Note: Submitted too late for contest.)
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Temporary Gage

May 16, 2006

Temporary gage at the Lamprey River near Newmarket, NH


(Note: Submitted too late for contest.)

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