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The USGS Cooperative Water Program

USGS hydrologist and cooperator

CAWSC hydrologist John Izbicki and T.J. Kim, Chief Engineer for the LA County Department of Public Works, discuss a recharge-pond study site in Antelope Valley.

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  • Arbuckle Mountain Hydro Partnership 
  • Arbuckle Mountain Project 
  • Five Bears Hydro, Incorporated 
  • Hypower, Inc. 
  • Lassen Station Hydroelectric L.P. 
  • Nelson Creek Power Company 
  • North Coast Hydroelectric 
  • PacifiCorp 
  • PG&E 
  • Rock Creek Limited Partnership 
  • Shasta Hydroelectric 
  • Snow Mountain Hydro LLC 
  • Southern California Edison 
  • STS Hydropower Ltd. 
  • Synergics, Inc. 

The USGS Cooperative Water Program is an ongoing partnership between the USGS and non-Federal agencies and has been providing basic scientific information needed by water-resources managers across the Nation since 1895.

The USGS and Cooperators jointly plan the scientific work performed in the Cooperative Water Program. This ensures that this work simultaneously meets the mission objectives of the USGS and the data and information needs of the Cooperators. The result is a national program with broad relevance and wide-spread use of its products. This significant tie to local and State water-resources needs also creates a program that responds quickly to emerging issues. Cooperators choose to work with the USGS because of the agency's broad technical expertise, its long-standing record of performing high-quality measurements and assessments, and its commitment to providing public access to data collected by the Cooperative Water Program.

The scientific, non-regulatory mission of the USGS means that parties in many types of regulatory and jurisdictional disputes accept its data and analyses as valid. To ensure that these activities do not infringe on work more appropriately done by the private sector, the USGS distributes a list of activities that should be excluded from the Program, and works through the Federal Advisory Committee Act to obtain advice from both government and non-government entities.

Contact: Jim Bowers

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