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api.waterdata.usgs.gov

US Geological Survey water observations through an OGC API: daily values and continuous sensor readings for streamflow, gage height, temperature, water quality and groundwater at monitoring locations across the United States.

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Capabilities (3)

GET /v1/data/usgs-waterdata/collections1 credit

The OGC API collections list: every observation type (daily, continuous, groundwater, water quality) with its id, title and description.

No parameters
GET /v1/data/usgs-waterdata/continuous1 credit

Raw sensor readings at their native interval for a location, parameter and time window.

monitoring_location_id?parameter_code?datetime?limit?
GET /v1/data/usgs-waterdata/daily1 credit

Daily aggregated observations (mean, min, max) for a monitoring location, parameter and date range.

monitoring_location_id?parameter_code?datetime?limit?offset?

Licence

USGS Water Data is published by the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the US Government. USGS data are in the public domain: USGS states that its information products are generally public domain, though some items may carry third-party copyright noted in the text. This API returns observational data with no such notice, so commercial use and redistribution are recorded as true with attribution to USGS.

https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits

Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.

Source: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Data.

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