Projects
The Maryland-Delaware-D.C. (MD-DE-DC) Water Science Center conducts hydrologic projects that address a wide variety of water-resources issues, including water supply, ground-water contamination, nutrient loading in streams, effects of land use on water quality, and basic hydrologic data collection.
The following list of projects includes water-resources projects being conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in the States of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.
Featured
Chesapeake Bay River Input Program
Loads and long-term trends in concentrations of nutrients and suspended material entering the tidal part of the Chesapeake Bay Basin from its nine major tributaries
Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Project
Providing integrated science for improved understanding and management of the Bay ecosystem
Anacostia Ground-Water Study
Hydrogeology and Ground-Water Quality of the Anacostia River Watershed
Calvert County Groundwater
Maps and charts focusing on the Calvert County Ground-Water-Level Monitoring Network
NAWQA PODL Study
The National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Potomac River Basin and Delmarva Peninsula Study
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CR ADA)
Enhanced Bioremediation And Natural Attenuation of Chlorinated Aliphatics in Ground Water
Online Posters
Index of Online Posters providing additional information about some of our projects.