Water Resources of Wyoming

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Wyoming Monitoring Networks

The USGS Wyoming Water Science Center continuously monitors surface water, ground water, and water quality parameters across the state. Monitoring sites are operated in cooperation with various local, State, or Federal agencies.

Surface Water

Water-stage and streamflow are continuously monitored by the USGS in Wyoming at 145 sites across the state.

Groundwater

Water levels are continuously monitored by the USGS in Wyoming at 7 sites across the state.

Water Quality

Water-quality conditions are continuously monitored by the USGS in Wyoming at 21 sites across the state.

Featured Projects

Wyoming Droughtwatch

The USGS monitors drought conditions at more than 100 streamgages across Wyoming. Find links to maps, tables, and charts that summarize current drought conditions.

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Coupled Real-time Streambank Piezometer and Gaging Station

Hydrologists from the USGS Wyoming Water Science Center are demonstrating the feasibility and utility of including groundwater level and temperature data from shallow streambank piezometers with existing suites of real-time data collected and transmitted at active gaging station.

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USGS WaterAlert Service

Now you can receive instant, customized updates about water conditions by subscribing to WaterAlert,a new service from the U.S. Geological Survey. Whether you are watching for floods, interested in recreational activities or concerned about the quality of water in your well, WaterAlert allows you to receive daily or hourly updates about current conditions in rivers, lakes and groundwater when they match conditions of concern to you. See press release for additional information.

Data via GoogleMaps

New Maps Deliver Current Streamflow Conditions

We recently added a Google-Map based Web page to deliver map-based current surface-water resources conditions in Wyoming.

The maps utilize zoom and pan to allow you to focus in on the water-monitoring sites that interest you. The maps show current streamflow as compared to historical records. By hovering your mouse over a site, a popup box shows the most recent stage and streamflow.

Recent Reports

Groundwater well inventory and assessment in the area of the proposed Normally Pressured Lance natural gas development project, Green River Basin, Wyoming, 2012

 

Pesticides in Wyoming Groundwater, 2008-10

 

 

Groundwater-Quality and Quality-Control Data for Two Monitoring Wells near Pavillion Wyoming, April and May 2012

 

Sampling and Analysis Plan for the Characterization of Groundwater Quality in Two Monitoring Wells near Pavillion, Wyoming

 

Water-Quality Characteristics and Trend Analyses for the Tongue, Powder, Cheyenne, and Belle Fourche River Drainage Basins, Wyoming and Montana, for Selected Periods, Water Years 1991 through 2010

 

Demonstrating Usefulness of Real-Time Monitoring at Streambank Wells Coupled with Active Streamgages - Pilot Studies in Wyoming, Montana, and Mississippi

 

Generalized potentiometric surface, estimated depth to water, and estimated saturated thickness of the High Plains aquifer system, March-June 2009, Laramie County, Wyoming

 

Assessment of Potential Effects of Water Produced from Coalbed Natural Gas Development on Macroinvertebrate and Algal Communities in the Powder River and Tongue River, Wyoming and Montana, 2010

 

Groundwater Quality of Southeastern Wyoming

 

 

Wyoming Groundwater-Quality Monitoring Network