Water Resources of Arkansas
Water Resources of ArkansasWelcome to the USGS Web page that provides access to water resources information for Arkansas; this is your direct link to Arkansas water-resources data--quantity and quality of ground water, quantity and quality of surface water, and water use. You'll also find information about USGS publications and investigations conducted by the USGS and its cooperators. Real-Time Data in ArkansasFeatured Science
PublicationsSIR 2012-5086Seasonal Patterns in Nutrients, Carbon, and Algal Responses in Wadeable Streams within Three Geographically Distinct Areas of the United States, 2007-08 Kathy E. Lee, David L. Lorenz, James C. Petersen, and John B. Greene CIR 1375 A Brief History and Summary of the Effects of River Engineering and Dams on the Mississippi River System and Delta Jason S. Alexander, Richard C. Wilson, and W. Reed Green PP 1785 Groundwater Availability of the Mississippi Embayment Brian R. Clark, Rheannon M. Hart, and Jason J. Gurdak SIR 2011-5215 Simulation of the effects of groundwater withdrawals on water-level altitudes in the Sparta aquifer in the Bayou Meto-Grand Prairie area of eastern Arkansas, 2007-37 Brian R. Clark, Drew A. Westerman, and D. Todd Fugitt FS 2011-3115 A New Tool to Assess Groundwater Resources in the Mississippi Embayment Brian R. Clark and David A. Freiwald SIR 2011-5194 Flood of June 11, 2010, in the Upper Little Missouri River Watershed, Arkansas Robert R. Holmes, Jr. and Daniel M. Wagner DS 640 Geophysical Characterization of the Lollie Levee near Conway, Arkansas, using Capacitively Coupled Resistivity, Coring, and Direct Push Logging Jonathan A. Gillip and Jason D. Payne SIR 2011-5090 Hypolimnetic Dissolved-Oxygen Dynamics within Selected White River Reservoirs, Northern Arkansas.Southern Missouri, 1974-2008 Jeanne L. De Lanois and W. Reed Green Water News and NoticesWater Board tests for stress on aquifer (01/26/2012 )Despite a few technical skips and bumps in the road, the Union County Water Conservation Board began on Tuesday the third aquifer stress test in the last century in an effort to determine how well the Sparta Aquifer responds to the stress of continuous pumping. Allison Gatlin, El Dorado News-Times Illinois River Basin biology study (11/30/2011) Last summer, the US Geological Survey began an ambitious biological sampling of the Illinois River in Washington and Benton Counties. We provide a progress report. Jacqueline Froelich, KUAF radio Ozarks at Large Flood Levels Reaching Dangerous Heights (04/27/2011) The storms may be gone, but all the rain they left behind, is still wreaking havoc. Lauren Trager, KARK 4 News USGS crews measure flooding in Arkansas (04/25/2011) Heavy rainfall of more than 8 inches in northwestern Arkansas has caused substantial flooding in (parts of the White River and Arkansas River Basins). Lindsey Tugman, Todays THV 11 Groundwater running out? (11/30/2009) It's one of agriculture's biggest ironies that water can be in such dire supply under the ground while inundating the countryside at the surface. Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff |