USGS New Jersey Water Science Center Projects

The USGS New Jersey Water Science Center conducts projects that involve the collection, monitoring, management, and analysis of data on hydrologic and biological resource conditions. These projects address a wide variety of water-resources issues, including water supply, ground-water contamination, nutrient loading in streams, ecological influences, effects of land use on water quality, and basic hydrologic and biological data collection. The purpose of this project work is to provide reliable, impartial, and timely information needed to understand the Nation's water resources and enable decision makers to wisely manage the Nation's water resources. Project work is accomplished with funding by State, county, municipal, and Federal cooperators with water-resources responsibilities. Some projects provide online sites through which the public can see much of the ongoing work. Results and data from other projects are not available until they are published.

Current New Jersey Projects

Surface Water Projects

Studies involving water on the land surface.

Ground Water Projects

Studies involving water below ground and in aquifers.

Water Quality Projects

Studies concerning the chemical and physical characteristics of water.

Biology Projects

Studies involving water's connection to living things.

Toxic Substances Hydrology Program

Trichloroethylene (TCE) in Fractured Rock - Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, NJ

National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA)

Past New Jersey Projects

Past Projects

Completed New Jersey Water Science Center projects.

Featured Project

Trace Elements National Synthesis Project

National Locations Map

A recently completed National study on radium occurrence indicated that the North Atlantic Coastal Plain, which underlies southern New Jersey, is one of two principal aquifers in the United States where more than 20 percent of the raw water samples from wells exceed the drinking water standard. The Appalachian Piedmont Mesozoic Basins bedrock principal aquifer, which underlies a substantial part of northern New Jersey, had a small likelihood that the raw water samples from the wells exceed the drinking water standard, a likelihood of about 3 percent, which is equivalent to the overall National frequency. The study found that geochemical conditions, such as low levels of dissolved oxygen (<1mg/L) and low pH (<6), were indicators of where radium was likely to be detected or exceed a standard. Low levels of dissolved oxygen occur on occasion in the bedrock aquifers of northern New Jersey and low pH is widespread in southern New Jersey coastal plain aquifers.

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