This observatory combines terrain, soils, wetlands, hydrography, monitoring networks, environmental concern, models, and interpretation to understand a water system in one place. It is broader than a model and deeper than a map.
The center stage layers terrain, soils, wetlands, hydrography, monitoring stations, and model context. Drag the cross-section line to read the profile beneath it; click any marker for site intelligence.
The control rail on the right is grouped by what you do: Analyze (screen wellheads and fens, rank and inspect risk sites), Monitoring (filter network, inspect signals), and Map (layers, legend). Panels stay closed until you summon one, so the map stays clear.
Filter the live USGS network along many axes at once — site type, parameter, agency, value, and time. The map, the signals, and the state line update as you narrow.
Scan live time-series for the network. Expand any signal to move from a process overview into regional analysis, key sites, and a detailed per-site card.
Screen wellheads and fens for vulnerability, and score contamination risk sites by multi-evidence ranking — drawing on depth-to-water, conductivity, chemistry, and proximity.
Layers composes the whole map — water quality, wells, risk sites, receptors, terrain, and more, each on or off. What you turn on is also what enters analysis, so a family left off drops out of ranking and stats.