USGS Ohio Water Science Center

Retired, Gone Fishing.

12/23/2008 -- With over 60 years combined experience working for the USGS, the Ohio Water Science Center bids farewell to two dedicated hydrologic technicians: Steve Frum of the New Philadelphia field office and Bernie Sroka of the Columbus office are retiring at the beginning of the year. Steve has extensive experience in the operation of streamgages, real-time instrumentation, and water-quality monitors. He has worked on numerous projects in eastern Ohio including coal hydrology and the National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. Steve has coauthored more than 30 Annual Data Reports. Bernie manages Ohio’s Crest-Stage Gage Network and is the field coordinator for a project to define low-flow characteristics for Ohio streams. Bernie spent 13 years working on multiple aspects of a statewide road salt contamination study. Bernie was named the “Northeast Data Person of 2008” by the Committee for Hydrologic Instrumentation and Data, Eastern Region (CHIDER).

Ohio Water Science Center Gets Bronze.

Ohio Water Science Center Gets Bronze. 12/23/2008 -- Considered a “Pledge to Excellence,” the USGS Ohio Water Science Center received the Bronze-level award from the Ohio Partnership for Excellence (OPE). The OPE program is responsible for making quality a statewide priority and disseminating best business practices across Ohio by administering the Baldridge assessment process. The Baldridge assessment process is the benchmark for improving organizational performance and achieving predictable, reliable, and repeatable results.

Cutting-Edge Science Telling Us What’s In The Water.

Outfall from waste water treatment plant into Tinkers Creek. 12/02/2008 -- The occurrence and distribution of organic wastewater compounds in Tinkers Creek and two other tributaries to the Cuyahoga River in northeast Ohio is documented in a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Ohio Water Development Authority and other Federal, State, and local agencies and was recently presented at the Water Management Association of Ohio (WMAO) annual fall conference. Innovative passive sampling devices were deployed in the streams for 28 days, and samples were then analyzed by methods recently developed in USGS laboratories. A total of 12 antibiotic, 20 pharmaceutical, 41 wastewater, and 22 hydrophobic compounds were detected at one or more sites in water, and 8 pharmaceutical and 37 wastewater compounds were detected in streambed sediments. Little is known about any health effects on aquatic organisms exposed to low levels of these chemicals or mixtures of these chemicals in streams (news release).

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Algal Biomass Indicators

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Flood of June 22–24, 2006, in North-Central Ohio, With Emphasis on the Cuyahoga River Near Independence

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Consumptive Water-Use Coefficients for the Great Lakes Basin and Climatically Similar Areas

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