Projects and Programs



Real-Time Information

Streamflow Data	MA	RI

Groundwater Data	MA	RI

Current Streamflow Conditions Maps	MA	RI

Floods & Water Watch Maps	MA	RI

Drought Watch Maps	MA	RI

Climate Response Network	MA	RI

Earthquake Activity	MA	RI

Links to other USGS Water Science Centers:
CT ME NH/VT NY
Links to other USGS sites in MA and RI:
Woods Hole Science Center Conte Anadromous Fish Laboratory

List of All Projects and Programs

Key to Study Type Codes
LTM	Long-term Hydrologic Monitoring
BWR	Basin Water Resources
CCS	Cape Cod Studies
CTS	Contaminant Fate and Transport Studies
NAW	USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program
SED	Sediment
STF	Streamflow
STM	Stormwater Studies
WS	Water Supply
WU	Water Use
WWN	Wastewater and Nutrient Enrichment Studies

Current Projects
Project	Type	Title	Planned End Date
Surface-Water Stations	LTM	Surface-Water stations	Ongoing
Groundwater Stations	LTM	Groundwater stations	Ongoing
Water-Quality Stations	LTM	Water-Quality stations	Ongoing
Cape Cod Toxics Research Site	CCS/ CTS	Cape Cod Toxic Substances Hydrology Research Site: Understanding the physical, chemical, and microbiological processes that control the fate and transport of contaminants in groundwater	Ongoing
Connecticut River Basin NAWQA	NAW	National Water Quality Assessment Program Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins (CONN) Study	Ongoing
National Water-Use	WU	National Water-Use Information Program	Ongoing
New England Coastal Basins NAWQA	NAW	National Water Quality Assessment Program New England Coastal Basins (NECB) Study	Ongoing
Stormwater-Pollution Prevention at Army Reserve Facilities	STM	Stormwater-pollution prevention program at U.S. Army Reserve Facilities in New England	Ongoing
Water Resources Studies, IRP MMR	CCS/ CTS	Contamination of groundwater and surface water by past use and disposal of industrial solvents, fuel, solid waste, and treated wastewater at the Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod	Ongoing
Water Resources Studies, Impact Area MMR	CCS/ CTS	Contamination of groundwater by past use and disposal of military ordnance compounds at Camp Edwards on the Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod	Ongoing
Big River Wetlands	BWR	Field Characterization and Numerical Simulation of Groundwater and Surface-Water Interactions in Rhode Island Wetlands: Big River Watershed Case Study	2012
Assabet River TMDL Water Quality	WWN	Water-quality monitoring and investigations to assess progress toward meeting the phosphorus TMDL for the Assabet River	2009
Blackstone River TMDL Water Quality	WWN	Nitrogen and sediment transport in the Blackstone River	2009
Taunton River TMDL Water Quality	WWN	Streamflow and loads for selected constituents in support of TMDL development for the Taunton River and its major tributaries	2009
Ipswich Basin LID	STM	Effects of low-impact development on the hydrology and water quality of the upper Ipswich River Basin, Massachusetts	2009
RI Contributing Areas	WS	Areas contributing recharge and sources of water to public-supply wells in complex settings	2009
RI Water Use	WU	Water use and availability in Rhode Island	2009
Mercury Continental Gradient	CTS	Comparison of mercury in atmospheric deposition and in fish across the continental gradient of atmospheric deposition of mercury	2008
Plymouth-Carver Aquifer	BWR	Groundwater resources of the Plymouth-Carver Region, Massachusetts: evaluating competing needs and demands	2008
Sustainable Yield	WS/ BWR	Development of a sustainable-yield estimator application for Massachusetts River Basins	2008
RI Streamflow Statistics	STF	Methods for estimating streamflow statistics in Rhode Island: Phase I data review and data collection	2008
National Highway Runoff Model	STM	National highway runoff stochastic empirical loading and dilution model	2008
Blackstone River Basin Water Resources	BWR	Evaluation of water resource management alternatives for the Blackstone River Basin, Rhode Island and Massachusetts	2007
Defining Nutrient Fluxes to Estuaries	WWN	Defining nutrient fluxes to the estuaries of the Cape Cod National Seashore, MA, to assess alternatives for nutrient loading remediation	2007
Fish Communities	STF	Analysis of streamflow and fish communities in selected basins in eastern Massachusetts	2007
I495 Scenarios	BWR	Assessment of water-management alternatives in the Interstate-495 Corridor Massachusetts: Effects of innovative alternatives at the local scale	2007
Massachusetts Streamflow	STF	Use of Hydrologic Indices to characterize streamflows and classify streamflow-gaging stations in Massachusetts	2007
Neponset PCBs and Neponset River Estuary	SED	Fate and transport of polychlorinated biphenyls from the Neponset River to Boston Harbor, Massachusetts	2007
Pawcatuck Optimization	BWR	Groundwater and surface-water resources of the Pawcatuck River basin in southern Rhode Island and southeastern Connecticut	2007
RISQA	SED	Regional Impounded Sediment Quality Assessment	2007
Sudbury River Basin Water Resources	BWR	Water resources of the Sudbury River Basin, Massachusetts: a cooperative modeling and aquatic habitat investigation	2007
Bankfull Regional Curves	STF	Bankfull-channel geometry and discharge relations for streams in Massachusetts	2006
Cape Cod Wastewater Alternatives	CCS/ WWN/ CTS	Analysis of wastewater and water resource alternatives, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, by use of a regional groundwater flow and local-scale, solute-transport models	2006
Recently Completed Projects
Project	Type	Title	Completion Date
Hunt (HAP) RI ZOC	BWR	Analysis of the effects of proposed withdrawals in the Annaquatucket River Basin, Central Rhode Island	2007
National Water Indicators	WU	Methods research for water availability and use	2007
Nutrient Criteria	WWN	Field studies for the development of numerical water-quality criteria for nutrients in Massachusetts rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs	2006
Perennial-Intermittent Streams	STF	Determination of perennial-intermittent status of Massachusetts streams	2006
RI Coastal Groundwater	BWR	Hydrogeologic characterization and flow simulation of the groundwater system of the Rhode Island Salt Pond Region	2006
Firm Yield I	WS	Firm yield assessment of streamflow-dominated drinking-water supply reservoirs	2006
Firm Yield II	WS	Determination of groundwater contributions to drinking-water-supply reservoirs and the effect on firm-yield estimates	2006
Assabet Sediment Phosphorus	SED	Assabet River basin sediment studies	2005
Charles River Atlas	BWR	Water resources and the urban environment, Lower Charles River Watershed, Massachusetts, 1630-2005	2005
Lower Mystic River Basin Sediment	SED	Sediment Quality of Lakes, Rivers, and Estuaries in the Mystic River Basin, Eastern Massachusetts, 2001�03	2005
Pushpoint Sampling	CTS	Pushpoint sampling for defining small-scale spatial and temporal variations of contaminants in pore water near the groundwater/surface-water interface Field Tests of Nylon-Screen Diffusion Samplers and Pushpoint Samplers for Detection of Metals in Sediment Pore Water, Ashland and Clinton, Massachusetts, 2003	2005
Robowell	WWN	Automated process for monitoring groundwater quality using established manual sampling protocols	2005
Street Sweeping	STM	Residential Street-Dirt Accumulation Rates and Chemical Composition, and Removal Efficiencies by Mechanical-and Vacuum-Type Sweepers, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 2003�04	2005
Assabet Basin Groundwater	BWR	Evaluation of groundwater management alternatives for the Assabet River Basin, Eastern Massachusetts	2004
Big River Optimization	BWR	Simulation-optimization and modeling of groundwater withdrawals in the Big River Stream-Aquifer System, Central Rhode Island	2004
Cape Cod Emerging Contaminants	WWN /CCS	Occurrence of organic wastewater contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products in selected water supplies, Cape Cod, Massachusetts	2004
Great Sandy Bottom Pond	WS	Simulated groundwater flow for a pond-dominated aquifer system near Great Sandy Bottom Pond, Pembroke, Massachusetts	2004
Ipswich Scenarios	WS	Simulated effects of the 2003 permitted withdrawals and water-management alternatives on reservoir storage and firm yields of three surface-water supplies, Ipswich River Basin, Massachusetts	2004
Lower Cape Cod Water Resources	WS/ BWR /CCS	Simulated interaction between freshwater and saltwater and effects of groundwater pumping and sea-level change, Lower Cape Cod Aquifer System, Massachusetts Potential changes in groundwater flow and their effects on the ecology and water resources of the Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts Groundwater recharge areas and traveltimes to pumped wells, streams, and coastal water bodies, Cape Cod, Massachusetts	2004
Mid-Cape Water Resources	WS/ BWR /CCS	Simulated water sources and effects of pumping on surface and groundwater, Sagamore and Monomoy Flow Lenses, Cape Cod, Massachusetts	2004
Neponset Sediment and PCBs	SED	Bottom sediment thickness and quality, Lower Neponset River, Massachusetts, with analysis of potential contaminant sources	2004
North Coastal Basin Sediment	SED	Assessment of sediment quality, Salem Sound and Saugus River Coastal Watersheds, Massachusetts	2004
Phosphorus Type Curves	WWN	Estimation of phosphorus plume length resulting from ground disposal of sewage-treatment effluent or septic effluent	2004
RI Contributing Areas in Complex Settings	WS	Delineation of areas contributing recharge to selected public-supply wells in glacial valley-fill and wetland settings, Rhode Island	2004
Streamflow and Habitat	STF	Evaluation of streamflow requirements for habitat protection by comparison to streamflow characteristics at index streamflow-gaging stations in Southern New England	2004
Usquepaug-Queen HSPF Modeling	BWR	A precipitation-runoff model for the analysis of the effects of water withdrawals and land-use change on streamflow in the Usquepaug-Queen River Basin, Rhode Island	2004
Loads to Cape Cod Ponds	CCS	Groundwater nutrient transport to estuaries and fresh-water ponds, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts: A flow-path and geochemical simulation approach	2003
MA Dam Removal	SED	Assessing sediment quality and quantity for proposed dam removal projects	2003
National Highway Runoff Synthesis	STM	National highway runoff water-quality data and methodology synthesis	2003
Nyanza Diffusion Sampling	CTS	Field test of vapor-diffusion samplers for reconnaissance of contamant "hot spots" in stream-bottom sediments	2003
Public-Supply Springs	WS	Public-water supply springs in Massachusetts-Characterization and delineation of contributing areas	2003
Upper Charles Optimization	BWR	Regional-scale simulation-optimization modeling of water-resource management alternatives in the Upper Charles River Basin, Massachusetts	2003

Accessibility FOIA Privacy Policies and Notices

U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://ma.water.usgs.gov/projects/prj_all.htm
Page Contact Information:
Page Last Modified: March 3, 2009