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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
Streamflow Graph
(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.

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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

New SIR 2009-5234 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Effects of Potential Changes in Groundwater Withdrawals from the Sparta Aquifer on Water-Level Altitudes in Jefferson County, Arkansas
John B. Czarnecki

New SIR 2009-5172 HTML Version Acrobat Version
The Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer Study (MERAS): Documentation of a Groundwater-Flow Model Constructed to Assess Water Availability in the Mississippi Embayment
Brian R. Clark and Rheannon M. Hart

SIR 2009-5148 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Groundwater-Flow Model of the Ozark Plateaus Aquifer System, Northwestern Arkansas, Southeastern Kansas, Southwestern Missouri, and Northeastern Oklahoma
John B. Czarnecki, Jonathan A. Gillip, Perry M. Jones, and Daniel S. Yeatts

SIR 2009-5040 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Validation of a Ground-Water Flow Model of the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer Using Water-Level and Water-Use Data for 1998-2005 and Evaluation of Water-Use Scenarios
Jonathan A. Gillip and John B. Czarnecki

SIR 2008-5149 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Summary of Aquifer Test Data for Arkansas-1940-2006
Aaron L. Pugh

FS 2008-3103 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Floods of Selected Streams in Arkansas, Spring 2008
Jaysson E. Funkhouser and Ken Eng

Water News and Notices

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

Hurricane Ike Raises Flood Concerns (09/12/2008)
The year 2008 has so far brought heavy rains, tornadoes....and some of the worst flooding the state has ever seen.
Pete Thompson, KARK 4 News

New Flood Warning System For Hot Springs (07/28/2008)
Officials unveiled a new flood warning information system in Hot Springs, the first in Arkansas to use satellite data transmissions from multiple sites to warn of dangerous conditions.
Robert Bell, todaysthv.com

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