Water Resources of Tennessee

Quick Link to Real-Time Data (Quick look: Real-time data typically are recorded at 15-60 minute intervals, stored onsite, and then transmitted to USGS offices every 1 to 4 hours, depending on the data relay technique used. Recording and transmission times may be more frequent during critical events. Data from real-time sites are relayed to USGS offices via satellite, telephone, and/or radio and are available for viewing within minutes of arrival.
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USGS Tennessee Highlights

Tennessee 2011 Water Data Report Available (Quick look:
Beginning with water year 2006, the annual water data product took on a new format different from the previous report series. The basic product is a Site Data Sheet that serves to publish all data collected during the water year at any given site. For more information about this topic, click now. )

The 2011 USGS Water Data Report is available online and has a new interactive feature designed to make site data retrieval easy. The annual Water Data Report provides a snapshot of water conditions for a given year.

Instantaneous Data Archive (IDA)

The USGS collects continuous (measurements from every 5 to every 60 minutes) stage, discharge, and other instantaneous time-series data on the Nation's rivers and streams. The Instantaneous Data Archive makes available as much intra-day streamflow data and historical instantaneous data, as possible, often several years' worth of data.

Highlighted Publications

The Tennessee Water Science Center produces publications about water resources.

Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5091
Quality of Shallow Groundwater and Drinking Water in the Mississippi Embayment-Texas Coastal Uplands Aquifer System and the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, South-Central United States, 1994–2004

Hoos, A.B., and McMahon, Gerard, 2009, Spatial analysis of instream nitrogen loads and factors controlling nitrogen delivery to streams in the southeastern United States using spatially referenced regression on watershed attributes (SPARROW) and regional classification frameworks: Hydrologic Processes, doi:10.1002/hyp.7323.

Knight, R.R., Gain, W.S., and Wolfe, W.J., 2011, Modelling ecological flow regime: An example from the Tennessee and Cumberland River basins: Ecohydrology, DOI:10.1002/eco.246.

Knight, R.R., Gregory, M.B., and Wales, A.K., 2008, Relating streamflow characteristics to specialized insectivores in the Tennessee River Valley: A regional approach: Ecohydrology, v. 1, no. 4, p. 394-397, doi:10.1002/eco.32.

Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5058
Estimated Use of Water in the Upper Duck River Watershed, Central Tennessee, and Water-Demand Projections through 2030

Scientific Investigations Map 2007-2972
Alluvial Bars of the Obed Wild and Scenic River, Tennessee

Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5105
Water Resources of the Duck River Watershed, Tennessee

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