Water-Quality Data and Information

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) investigates the occurrence, quantity, quality, distribution, and movement of surface and underground waters and disseminates the data to the public, State and local governments, public and private utilities, and other Federal agencies involved with managing water resources. The links below allow you to further investigate water.

Water-Quality Data

• Current (real-time) data
• Water-quality samples

Suspended-Sediment Data

• Search sediment database by state ()
• Suspended sediment size ()
• Database description ()

National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA)

In more than 50 major river basins and aquifers covering nearly all 50 states, USGS scientists collect and interpret data about water chemistry, hydrology, land use, stream habitat, and aquatic life. (NAWQA home page)

• Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basins
• Georgia-Florida Coastal Plain Drainages
• Mobile River Basin
• Tennessee River Basin

Water-Quality Monitoring:

• Atlanta water-quality monitoring
• Gwinnett County water-quality monitoring
• Rockdale County water-quality monitoring
• Chattahoochee BacteriALERT

Publications:

• Georgia water-quality publications