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The Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility (HIF) has four sections within its organizational structure; [35] the Field Services Section which includes the warehouse, repair shop, and Engineering Unit; the Testing Section which includes the Hydraulic Laboratory, testing chambers, and Water Quality Laboratory; the Information Technology Section ...
U.S. Geological Survey National Center visitor entrance in 2011. The approximately 1,000,000 sq. ft., 1,200 foot long U.S. Geological Survey National Center building sits on a 105-acre site and is divided into three main sections—the agency administration offices, the laboratories, and the map reproduction area. [3]
Named after its creator, Dr. Ralph L. Parshall of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, the Parshall flume is a fixed hydraulic structure used in measuring volumetric flow rate in surface water, industrial discharges, municipal sewer lines, and influent/effluent flows in wastewater treatment plants. The Parshall flume accelerates the flow by ...
During the Quaternary period, Illinois was subject to multiple intervals of glaciation; over 90% of Illinois was formerly covered by glaciers, leaving a variety of glacial landscape features. The Mississippi River, fed by ice-sheet melt and water from glacial lakes, cut a deep valley as it flowed through the region.
In the 1930s, the State of Illinois appropriated $300,000 which was supplemented by a $245,454 Public Works Administration grant for a new building to house Illinois State Geological Survey and Illinois Natural History Survey operations. [28] The Natural Resources Building, located on Peabody Drive in Champaign, was dedicated on November 15, 1940.
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The Westbay MP system is a modular instrumentation system for multilevel groundwater monitoring acquired by Nova Metrix in 2015, the MP system consists of two parts: (1) the casing system and (2) portable probes and tools that provide a compatible data acquisition system. The Westbay casing system is designed to allow the monitoring of multiple ...
A magnitude 3.6 earthquake rattled northern Illinois and parts of three other states early Wednesday, awakening some residents and spurring reports to 911 about homes shaking, the U.S. Geological ...