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NOTICE: Recently discontinued and threatened USGS streamgages in Kentucky. Click here for more information.

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Recent Products

A Compilation of Provisional Karst Geospatial Data for the Interior Low Plateaus Physiographic Region, Central United States

Annual Water-Data Reports for the United States - Water Year 2007 recently released

Kentucky Public Water-Supply Withdrawals During 1995, 2000, and 2005

Facing Tomorrow's Challenges - U.S. Geological Survey Science in the Decade 2007-2017

Note: Beginning with Water Year 2006, the Annual Data Report is a national report only and the reference to a local state report is discontinued.

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Hydrology Tools

An online tool to obtain drainage areas and flow statistics for KY streams

USGS Kentucky Stream-flow gage locations map. (clickable PDF map)
For those unable to view the graphical map, the same information is available via the USGS-KY NWISWeb site inventory page.

 

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Featured Project 

Maxey Flats Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Site

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet—Department for Environmental Protection—Division of Waste Management (KNREPC-DWM), has an ongoing multi-discipline project which includes the collection of water level, streamflow, and precipitation data to aid the State in monitoring this low-level radioactive waste-disposal site, located in Fleming County near Morehead, Kentucky.

The Maxey Flats low-level radioactive waste disposal site began operation as a commercial radioactive waste-disposal facility in May 1963. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) involvement began in 1962 with a well inventory of the Maxey Flats area. In 1973, the Kentucky Cabinet for Human Resources (KCHR) reported the detection of radionuclides outside the disposal trenches.

Concern about the migration of radionuclides from the Maxey Flats site in northeastern Kentucky has led to several extensive hydrogeologic and water-quality studies. The USGS, in cooperation with the KNREPC–DWM and the KCHR, has collected data at the site since 1974. An extensive ground-water data-collection network has been maintained by the USGS and the KNREPC–DWM to obtain information needed to define the hydrologic setting at the site.

Currently data is collected continuously from 15 wells and 2 surface-water sites, and quarterly from 2 wells. Current and historical data is available for retrieval from the USGS Kentucky NWISWeb.

Past Featured Projects

Ground-Water Resources Program Karst Hydrology Initiative