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This 10-minute movie explains some of the potential health risks associated with arsenic exposure even at low doses over time and encourages private well owners to test the arsenic concentrations in their drinking water. USGS is participating in the official release of this movie on February 11, 2010 in Concord, NH. USGS scientist Joseph Ayotte is featured in the movie.

2010 Announcement
USGS scientists develop new tool to sample groundwater during conventional hollow-stem auger drilling

USGS New Hampshire-Vermont Water Science Center scientist Phillip T. Harte, along with USGS hydrographer Glenn Berwick and driller Jeff Grey, recently received a U.S. patent for the development of a new sampling tool that allows for depth-specific groundwater sampling during conventional hollow-stem auger drilling. This tool allows for sampling in hard and resistive unconsolidated formations and alleviates the need to mobilize a separate vertical profiling rig to obtain depth-specific groundwater samples. Click here to see the patent report. For more information contact ptharte@usgs.gov

New Hampshire StreamStats is a Web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) that allows users to interactively obtain streamflow statistics, drainage-basin characteristics, and other information for user-selected sites on streams. If the selected site is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data-collection station, the user will be provided with a list of previously published information for the station. If the selected site is a location where no data are available (an ungaged site), StreamStats will delineate the drainage-basin boundary, measure basin characteristics and estimate flood-flow statistics for the site. These estimates are based upon the regression equations in “Estimation of Flood Discharges at Selected Recurrence Intervals for Streams in New Hampshire” (SIR 2008-5206) and assume natural flow conditions at the site. StreamStats for New Hampshire was developed in cooperation with the New Hampshire Department of Transportation.

July 9, 2009 News Release:
Growing Demand and Climate Change Likely Means Less Water for New Hampshire's Seacoast Region by 2025

Findings from a groundwater availability study in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire were released today. Increased demand for water and a warmer climate will likely decrease the amount of water available in the streams and aquifers of southeast New Hampshire’s Seacoast region. Summer stream flows could be 10 percent less by 2025 than they are now and groundwater levels will likely drop if demand continues to grow as projected.

May 1, 2009 Announcement
The 2008 annual Water Data Report (WDR) records for New Hampshire and Vermont were published on May 1, 2009.

Beginning in the 2006 Water Year, the annual WDR for New Hampshire and Vermont is available only on-line as a web-based data retrieval system, and locally published Water Data Reports have been discontinued. Therefore, to obtain the information about a specific state, basin or site, please start your search on the national Annual Water Data Reports page. A map-based tool for locating hydrologic data is also available. The Mapper allows users to geographically locate surface water, ground water, and climatological sites and view and download published water data for those sites. In the future, the New Hampshire-Vermont Water Science Center may produce a CD that contains all of the final annual data for the two states.

February 12, 2009 News Release:
Variety of Chemicals Found in Waters Flowing into Lake Champlain

A variety of man-made chemicals has been found in the streams and wastewaters that discharge into Lake Champlain based on a recently completed study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The chemicals found include pesticides, fire retardants, fragrances, detergent degradates, and caffeine. An abstract of the report summarizing the study can be found at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121663615/abstract

May 6, 2008 News Release:
Water Demand Likely to Increase Substantially in New Hampshire's Seacoast Region by 2025
    

April 16, 2008 Event:
New Hampshire Water Conference, April 16, 2008

March 19, 2008 News Release:
USGS Contributes to Suncook River Flood Study
    

January 2, 2008 News Release:
Gasoline Additive MTBE Widespread in New Hampshire's Ground Water

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The State of New Hampshire's Department of Environmental Services commissioned a task force in March 2006 to assess the State's current network of stream gages and identify vital data needs that are not being met. The findings of the task force and other documents are now available.

ES&T Journal Article (in PDF format)

May 18, 2006 News Release:
New Hampshire Flood Data Released by USGS

Photos and Graphs Data Table Map showing recurrence intervals

ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain is opening a new interactive exibit this week called “Be a Watershed Weather Reporter”. On Friday, April 15, ECHO, in partnership with WPTZ NewsChannel 5, will open a new stewardship component to its interactive exhibit gallery, an actual weather television studio! Be a Watershed Weather Reporter is a weather studio where guests can learn about the affects of weather on the Lake Champlain Basin. With computer special affects and a little TV magic, visitors record their own “on location” weather story in front of state of the art, television studio chroma key technology. Learn how floods, blizzards, wind, drought and other major weather events impact not just what we wear outside, but the quality of the water we swim in, the air we breathe, and the land we live on.

Be a Watershed Weather Reporter was developed with generous support from US EPA New England. The Lake Champlain Basin Program partnered in this project to help develop and review all Lake Champlain Basin issues such as algae blooms, phosphorus and storm water runoff. Current lake level and water temperature data is provided by the U.S. Geological Survey. ECHO also plans to add more lake weather information to its website, http://www.echovermont.org, which will include the new lake level and temperature thanks to partnerships with the U.S. Department of the Interior/U.S. Geological Survey and WPTZ NewsChannel 5.

For more information call (802) 864-1848, or visit:

• Announcement of ECHO exhibit opening
• Today's weather at ECHO
• USGS Lake Gage at ECHO