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Welcome to our "Projects" pages! Here is where we showase our work, arranged by related disciplines, 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, Groundwater 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.

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Hydrologic Data for Deep Creek Lake and Selected Tributaries, Garrett County, Maryland, 2007-2008
Groundwater, surface water, and sediment data for Deep Creek Lake and selected tributaries

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 Groundwater Study
Hydrogeology and Groundwater Quality of the Anacostia River Watershed

NAWQA PODL Study
The National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Potomac River Basin and Delmarva Peninsula Study

Online Posters

Index of Online Posters providing additional information about some of our projects.

Project List

Archive of Past Projects >>

Project Name Discipline Study Period
Anacostia Groundwater Study Groundwater 10/1/03 - present
Anacostia River Water Quality Monitoring Surface water 10/1/03 - present
Assessment of Wetland Water Quality Services Across an Alteration Gradient on the Choptank River watershed Surface water 10/1/07 - present
Baltimore Long Term Ecological Research Surface water, Groundwater 10/1/03 - present
Chesapeake Bay Program - Factors Affecting Water Quality and Quantity Surface water 10/1/06 - 9/30/20
Chesapeake Bay Program - Synthesis and Forecasting Surface water 10/1/06 - 9/30/20
Chesapeake Inundation Prediction System: A Forecasting and Visualization Prototype for Emergency Management In Coastal-Bay Esturary system Surface water 10/1/07 - 9/30/10
Comprehensive Assessment of the Atlantic Coastal Plain Groundwater 1/1/06 - 12/31/11
Deep Creek Lake Hydrologic and Water Quality Conditions Surface water, Water quality 7/1/07 - present
Effects of Stream Restoration Surface water 10/1/03 - present
Evaluation and Design of Monitoring Programs for the Baltimore Reservoirs and Contributing Watersheds Water supply, Surface water 11/1/06 - 2/28/10
Investigation of Groundwater Discharge to the Dalecarlia Reservoir Ground water 1/1/06 - 9/30/10
Mattawoman Water Quality Monitoring Surface water, Water quality 10/1/03 - present
MD-DE-DC Hydrologic Networks Groundwater, Surface water 10/1/1888 - present
Mettiki Mine Post-Operation Monitoring Water quality 10/1/04 - 6/30/10
Patuxent River Naval Air Station Groundwater Groundwater 10/1/03 - present
Pesticides in Groundwater of the Maryland Peidmont Groundwater, Water quality 5/1/06 - 9/30/11
Potomac Aquifer Study at the Standard Chlorine of Delaware, Inc. Superfund Site, Delaware City, Delaware Water quality, Groundwater 6/1/05 - 9/30/10
River Input Surface water 10/1/85 - present
Rock Creek Surface water 12/1/06 - Present
Statewide Early Warning System for the Maryland Public Water Supply Water supply 3/15/06 - 1/31/11
Technical Support for Assessment for the State of The Chesapeake Bay and The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Chesapeake Bay 8/30/05 - 12/8/10
Technical Support to Weston, for Wetland Study and Remediation in the Canal Creek, Edgewood Area, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md Surface water, Water quality 10/1/07 - 4/30/11
Water-Quality Monitoring in Paint Branch, Maryland Surface water, Water quality 4/1/07 - 6/30/12
Water-Quality Monitoring in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. Surface water, Water quality 12/1/06 - present
Watershed-Estuary-Species Nutrient Susceptibility Water quality 8/1/05 - 9/1/10

 


 

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