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About the USGS Arkansas Water Science Center

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There is a USGS Water Science Center office in each State.

Water Resources of Arkansas

Welcome 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 Arkansas

Are you an angler, boater, water-resources manager, or other person who needs to know the amount of water

(volume=streamflow, height at a specific location=stage) currently flowing down one of Arkansas' streams? The USGS provides realtime streamflow, stage, and precipitation information for more than 130 locations across Arkansas. This information is updated to our web page every one to four hours via satellite. Users can view the information on graphs showing changes in streamflow or stage during the last 7 to 31 days. Real-time water quality and ground water data also are available.

Featured Science

Ozark NAWQA Study Unit

The Ozark Plateaus NAWQA is one of more the 50 study units that are part of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. The Ozark Plateaus study unit is approximately 48,000 square miles in size and inclu des parts of northern Arkansas, southeastern Kansas, southern Missouri, and nort heastern Oklahoma.

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Publications

OFR 2010-113

Robert A. Blanchard, Daniel M. Wagner, and Dennis A. Evans

SIR 2010-5014
Potentiometric Surfaces and Water-Level Trends in the Cockfield (Upper Claiborne) and Wilcox (Lower Wilcox) Aquifers of Southern and Northeastern Arkansas, 2009
Aaron L. Pugh

SIR 2009-5207
Water Levels and Selected Water-Quality Conditions in the Sparta-Memphis Aquifer (Middle Claiborne Aquifer) in Arkansas, Spring-Summer 2007
T.P. Schrader

Journal Article
A Comparison of Algal, Macroinvertebrate, and Fish Assemblage Indices for Assessing Low-Level Nutrient Enrichment in Wadeable Ozark Streams
By B.G. Justus, James C. Petersen, Suzanne R. Femmer, Jerri V.Davis, and J.E. Wallace

SIR 2009-5263
Geochemistry, Comparative Analysis, and Physical and Chemical Characteristics of the Thermal Waters East of Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, 2006-09
Timothy M. Kresse and Phillip D. Hays
Water News and Notices
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

Listen to Audio (11/30/2009)
National and State Water Use Changes Over Last 30 Years
Malcolm Glover, KUAR FM 89 News

Volunteers needed for Secchi Day lake monitoring (07/22/2009)
The fourth annual Secchi Day on Beaver Lake will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 29 at the east and west shelters near the boat ramp at Prairie Creek on Beaver Lake.
Staff Writers, Rogers Hometown News