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Water Resources of MississippiState and National Streamflow Conditions Welcome to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Web page for the water resources of Mississippi. The USGS provides maps, reports and information to help others meet their needs to manage, develop, and protect America's water, energy, mineral, and land resources. We help find natural resources needed to build tomorrow, and supply scientific understanding needed to help minimize or mitigate the effects of natural hazards and environmental damage caused by human activities. The results of our efforts touch the daily lives of almost every American.
Steele Bayou Monitoring Update
USGS Mississippi Data HighlightsUSGS Flood Inundation MapperFloods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters in the United States and are the leading cause of weather related deaths. Advances in technology have improved warning systems and have helped to decrease the loss of life over the past 50 years. Several sources of information are available to citizens and public officials to help make timely decisions regarding flood awareness and flood loss mitigation. One recently developed source of information is the USGS Flood Inundation Mapper. Digital maps are displayed through the interactive web mapper, and details of the project and modeling process are available in an online report. The availability of these maps, when combined with real- time stage information from USGS streamgages and forecasted stream stage from the National Weather Service, provides emergency management personnel and residents with critical information during flood-response activities, such as evacuations and road closures, as well as for post-flood recovery efforts. For more information, click here to read the full report. 2012 Mississippi Water Data Report Now AvailableThe 2012 USGS Water Data Report is now available online and improves on the previous online reports with a new interactive feature designed to make site data retrieval easier and more convenient. The new report includes a national map interface that can be used to identify an area of interest, locate sites where water data were collected for Water Year 2012, and access most of that data. The annual Water Data Report provides a snapshot of water conditions for a given year. Access the Water Data Report using a text ( ) or map ( ) interface. National Water Information System: MapperThe new NWIS Mapper provides an interactive map interface to all USGS water data (historical and current). (Note: To access data, zoom in on the map to level 11 or greater to make the individual sites clickable.) Instantaneous Data Archive (IDA)The Instantaneous Data Archive makes available as much intra-day streamflow data and historical instantaneous data continuous (measurements from every 5 to every 60 minutes), as possible, often several years' worth of data. Informative Tools & LinksUSGS StreaMail USGS StreaMail is a system for accessing real-time river stage and streamflow from hand-held wireless devices, such as cell phones
and Blackberries. All you have to do is send an email or text message to "streamail@usgs.gov" and use a USGS station number in the
"Subject" line. In a few minutes you'll get back an email/text message with the most recent stage and streamflow.
USGS WaterAlert Now you can receive instant, customized updates about water conditions by subscribing to WaterAlert, a new service from
the U.S. Geological Survey. WaterAlert allows users to receive updates about river flows, groundwater levels, water temperatures,
rainfall, and water quality at more than 9,500 sites where USGS collects real-time water information. The Mississippi Water Science
Center collects real-time water information at more than 130 sites throughout Mississippi and makes that data available to the public
through WaterAlert.
Highlighted PublicationsScientific Investigations Map 3228 -- Prepared in cooperation with the City of Hattiesburg, City of Petal, Forrest County, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, Mississippi Department of Homeland Security, and the Emergency Management District - Flood-Inundation Maps for the Leaf River at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. By John B. Storm Journal Article -- Complexity of human and ecosystem interactions in an agricultural landscape. By Richard H. Coupe, Jeannie R.B. Barlow, Paul D. Capel Journal Article -- Sources and Delivery of Nutrients to the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico from Streams in the South-Central United States. By Richard A. Rebich, Natalie A. Houston, Scott V. Mize, Daniel K. Pearson, Patricia B. Ging, C. Evan Hornig Open File Report 2010-1229 -- Unintended Consequences of Biofuels Production: The Effects of Large-Scale Crop Conversion on Water Quality and Quantity. By Heather L. Welch, Christopher T. Green, Richard A. Rebich, Jeannie R.B. Barlow, and Matthew B. Hicks Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5019 -- Prepared in cooperation with the Yazoo Mississippi Delta Joint Water Management District Simulation of Water-Use Conservation Scenarios for the Mississippi Delta Using an Existing Regional Groundwater Flow Model. By Jeannie R.B. Barlow and Brian R. Clark Journal Article -- Groundwater and Surface-Water Exchange and Resulting Nitrate Dynamics in the Bogue Phalia Basin in Northwestern Mississippi. By Jeannie R. B. Barlow and Richard H. Coupe Journal Article -- Changes in Shallow Groundwater Quality Beneath Recently Urbanized Areas in the Memphis, Tennessee Area. By Jeannie R. B. Barlow, James A. Kingsbury, and Richard H. Coupe Journal Article -- Field Tracer Investigation of Unsaturated Zone Flow Paths and Mechanisms in Agricultural Soils of Northwestern Mississippi, USA. By Kim S. Perkins, John R. Nimmo, Claire E. Rose, and Richard H. Coupe Journal Article -- Fate and Transport of Glyphosate and Aminomethylphosphonic Acid in Surface Waters of Agricultural Basins. By Richard H. Coupe, Stephen J. Kalkhoff, Paul D. Capel, and Caroline Gregoire Data Sheet 546 -- Water-Quality, Water-Level, and Discharge Data Associated with the Mississippi Embayment Agricultural chemical Transport Study, 2006-2008. By melinda S. Dalton, Claire E. Rose, and Richard H. Coupe Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5021 -- National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program's Agriculural Chemical Team (ACT): Environmental Settings of the South Fork Iowa River Basin, Iowa, and the Bogue Phalia Basin, Mississippi, 2006-10. By Kathleen A. McCarthy, Claire E. Rose, and Stephen J. Kalkhoff Open File Report 2008-1198 -- Prepared in cooperation with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Mississippi Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Agriculture-U.S. Forest Service, and Mississippi Automated Resource Information System: Development of a Watershed Boundary Dataset for Mississippi. By K. Van Wilson, Jr., Michael G. Clair II, D. Phil Turnipseed, and Richard A. Rebich Scientific Investigations Map 3020 -- Prepared in cooperation with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Mississippi Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Agriculture-U.S. Forest Service, and Mississippi Automated Resource Information System: Watershed Boundary Dataset for Mississippi. By By K. Van Wilson, Jr., Michael G. Clair II, D. Phil Turnipseed, and Richard A. Rebich |