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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 150 locations across Arkansas. This information is updated to our web page hourly via satellite. Users can view the information on graphs showing changes in streamflow or stage during a user-specified time period. 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 2012-5086 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Seasonal Patterns in Nutrients, Carbon, and Algal Responses in Wadeable Streams within Three Geographically Distinct Areas of the United States, 2007-08
Kathy E. Lee, David L. Lorenz, James C. Petersen, and John B. Greene

New CIR 1375 HTML Version Acrobat Version
A Brief History and Summary of the Effects of River Engineering and Dams on the Mississippi River System and Delta
Jason S. Alexander, Richard C. Wilson, and W. Reed Green

PP 1785 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Groundwater Availability of the Mississippi Embayment
Brian R. Clark, Rheannon M. Hart, and Jason J. Gurdak

SIR 2011-5215 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Simulation of the effects of groundwater withdrawals on water-level altitudes in the Sparta aquifer in the Bayou Meto-Grand Prairie area of eastern Arkansas, 2007-37
Brian R. Clark, Drew A. Westerman, and D. Todd Fugitt

FS 2011-3115 HTML Version Acrobat Version
A New Tool to Assess Groundwater Resources in the Mississippi Embayment
Brian R. Clark and David A. Freiwald

SIR 2011-5194 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Flood of June 11, 2010, in the Upper Little Missouri River Watershed, Arkansas
Robert R. Holmes, Jr. and Daniel M. Wagner

DS 640 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Geophysical Characterization of the Lollie Levee near Conway, Arkansas, using Capacitively Coupled Resistivity, Coring, and Direct Push Logging
Jonathan A. Gillip and Jason D. Payne

SIR 2011-5090 HTML Version Acrobat Version
Hypolimnetic Dissolved-Oxygen Dynamics within Selected White River Reservoirs, Northern Arkansas.Southern Missouri, 1974-2008
Jeanne L. De Lanois and W. Reed Green

Water News and Notices

New Water Board tests for stress on aquifer (01/26/2012 )
Despite a few technical skips and bumps in the road, the Union County Water Conservation Board began on Tuesday the third aquifer stress test in the last century in an effort to determine how well the Sparta Aquifer responds to the stress of continuous pumping.
Allison Gatlin, El Dorado News-Times

Illinois River Basin biology study (11/30/2011)
Last summer, the US Geological Survey began an ambitious biological sampling of the Illinois River in Washington and Benton Counties. We provide a progress report.
Jacqueline Froelich, KUAF radio Ozarks at Large

Flood Levels Reaching Dangerous Heights (04/27/2011)
The storms may be gone, but all the rain they left behind, is still wreaking havoc.
Lauren Trager, KARK 4 News

USGS crews measure flooding in Arkansas (04/25/2011)
Heavy rainfall of more than 8 inches in northwestern Arkansas has caused substantial flooding in (parts of the White River and Arkansas River Basins).
Lindsey Tugman, Todays THV 11

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

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