Projects in Nebraska

The Nebraska 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. This page lists the major projects currently underway and other topics of hydrologic interest.

Surface Water

• Time-lapse photographic monitoring of riverine habitat dynamics in sandy-bed rivers of Nebraska
• Niobrara Streamflow Gains and Losses
• Bacteriological Water Quality of Plum Creek
• Cardwell Branch Watershed Assessment
• Channel Widening in Eastern Nebraska
• Environmental Monitoring of Missouri River
• Hydrogeomorphic Segments and Hydraulic Microhabitats of the Niobrara River
• Lake McConaughy Surveys
• Lower Platte River Cumulative Impact Study—Hydrology Component
• Niobrara National Scenic River
• Potential Canal Leakage in Western Nebraska
• Riverbank Filtration in the Platte River
• Water-Quality Monitoring in Lincoln

Ground Water

• Groundwater Monitoring of Volatile Organic Compounds near Seward, Nebraska
• Groundwater-flow model in the Platte River Valley near Ashland, Nebraska
• High Plains Aquifer Water Availability Study
• High Plains Water-Level Monitoring Study (HPWLMS)
• Evaluating Geophysical Techniques at Dutch Flats
• Ground-Water Quality in the Platte River Alluvial Aquifer, East-Central Saunders County
• Ground-Water Quality in the Platte River Alluvial Aquifer, near Ashland
• Potential Canal Leakage in Western Nebraska
• Pumpkin Creek Valley
• Republican Basin Geophysics
• Source Water Near Sidney

Water Quality

• Bacteriological Water Quality of Plum Creek
• Blaine Naval Ammunition Depot
• Environmental Monitoring of Missouri River
• Ground-Water Quality in the Platte River Alluvial Aquifer, East-Central Saunders County
• Ground-Water Quality in the Platte River Alluvial Aquifer, near Ashland
• Midwest Streams Study
• Niobrara National Scenic River
• Riverbank Filtration in the Platte River

Geophysics

• Evaluating Geophysical Techniques at Dutch Flats
• Blaine Naval Ammunition Depot
• Metallic Waste at the Former Tyson Valley Powder Farm
• Potential Canal Leakage in Western Nebraska
• Republican Basin Geophysics

Biology/Ecology

• Environmental Monitoring of Missouri River
• Midwest Streams Study