Near my childhood home was a small river. It wasn’t much more than a creek at the best of times, and in dry summers it would sometimes almost dry up completely. But snowmelt revived it each Spring, ...

Seventeen critical river and lake gages used to measure water level and flow around Lake Champlain are slated for removal next spring. Managed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), they are ...

A new U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge on lower Castle Creek began recording public data Thursday as a result of $34,000 in funding from the Aspen nonprofit group Saving Our Streams. The group is ...

Stream gaging sure was a dapper occupation at the turn of the century! Here’s the various techniques United States Geological Survey hydrologists used to measure current without even dipping a toe ...

For 125 years, a gauge near the village of Embudo has quietly measured the stream flow in the Rio Grande. The Embudo gauge is the oldest U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge in the nation, constructed ...

stream-gage-graphic-jpg Stream gauge on the North Fork of the John Day River in Oregon. So far, it’s safe. Hydrologist David Evetts drove north from his office in Boise, Idaho, to the former ...