A field survey of the lower Cedar River from Landsburg to Renton, WA was conducted on 29 April 2010 from a raft using real-time kinetic global positioning system to determine horizontal location and water surface elevation and a pressure transducer to measure depths along the thalweg of the river. These data were averaged over 100 m intervals to generate water surface elevations, river bed elevations, and depths at regular 10-meter intervals. The water surface and river bed gradients were calculated using the water surface elevations 10 m upstream and 10 m downstream of each point. Each point was assigned as a pool, riffle, or other type. Observations of salmon redds during the fall of 2010 are indicated.

Field survey of the longitudinal profile and off-channel habitats (side channels and alcoves) of the lower Cedar River from Landsburg to Renton, WA were conducted in 2010 and 2013 respectively. The longitudinal profile is provided as an ASCII text file with fields delimited by commas. Digital maps with the locations of off-channel habitats are provided as ArcGIS shapefiles.

Field survey of the longitudinal profile and off-channel habitats (side channels and alcoves) of the lower Cedar River from Landsburg to Renton, WA were conducted in 2010 and 2013 respectively. The longitudinal profile is provided as an ASCII text file with fields delimited by commas. Digital maps with the locations of off-channel habitats are provided as ArcGIS shapefiles.

These data represent a Global Positioning System (GPS) survey generated September 20, 2023, using Trimble R10 Real-Time Kinematics (RTK) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Survey extends along the Cedar River streambed in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where a wastewater treatment diffuser pipe is installed. Cross-sectional representations were produced to depict stream depth and streambed elevation. Cross-sectional data should be interpreted from a downstream perspective.

These data represent a Global Positioning System (GPS) survey generated using a Trimble R10 Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The Ssurvey extends along the Cedar River streambed in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where a wastewater treatment diffuser pipe is installed. Cross-sectional representations were produced to depict stream depth and streambed elevation. Cross-sectional data should be interpreted from a downstream perspective.

Accelerometer scour monitors were deployed on the Cedar River, Washington from 2013 to 2014 as part of a study on the timing of streambed scour at 73 locations in salmon-spawning habitat. This data release contains data of the three-dimensional orientation recorded at 20- to 30-minute intervals for the 46 accelerometer monitors that were recovered in 2014. Each accelerometer scour monitor was comprised of three individual accelerometers that were deployed in a vertical profile within the streambed.

A suite of geophysical methods was used along the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to support the hydrogeologic characterization of the alluvial aquifer associated with the river and to assess the area for suitability for larger-scale airborne geophysics. The aquifer is comprised of sand and gravel, interbedded with finer sediments, and underlain by carbonate-dominated bedrock. The aquifer is the principal source of municipal drinking water for the City of Cedar Rapids. The raw data files provided here include waterborne continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) and continuous seismic profiling (CSP) data, which were collected concurrently in April 2015, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) profiles from April 2015, horizontal to vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) seismic from April 2015 and several borehole geophysical logs including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), gamma, and electromagnetic induction (EMI) from nine wells, collected in June, 2017. The CRP, ERT, and borehole logs measure the electrical properties of the subsurface, which can be related to stratigraphic layers. The HVSR, CSP, CRP and some of the borehole logs characterize the depth to bedrock. Collectively the suite of methods can help characterize the subsurface and map the extent of the sand and gravel aquifer. In addition, these geophysical measurements can be used to plan and to ground truth air-borne electromagnetic surveys.

A suite of geophysical methods was used along the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to support the hydrogeologic characterization of the alluvial aquifer associated with the river and to assess the area for suitability for larger-scale airborne geophysics. The aquifer is comprised of sand and gravel, interbedded with finer sediments, and underlain by carbonate-dominated bedrock. The aquifer is the principal source of municipal drinking water for the City of Cedar Rapids. The raw data files provided here include waterborne continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) and continuous seismic profiling (CSP) data, which were collected concurrently in April 2015, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) profiles from April 2015, horizontal to vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) seismic from April 2015 and several borehole geophysical logs including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), gamma, and electromagnetic induction (EMI) from nine wells, collected in June, 2017. The CRP, ERT, and borehole logs measure the electrical properties of the subsurface, which can be related to stratigraphic layers. The HVSR, CSP, CRP and some of the borehole logs characterize the depth to bedrock. Collectively the suite of methods can help characterize the subsurface and map the extent of the sand and gravel aquifer. In addition, these geophysical measurements can be used to plan and to ground truth air-borne electromagnetic surveys.

In April 2015, approximately 22 miles of continuous seismic profiling (CSP) surveys were collected on the Cedar River in Iowa. The swept frequency (chirp) CSP subbottom profiler was used to characterize the unconsolidated materials above the bedrock. The CSP subbottom profiler is an acoustic sound source that travels through the water column and reflects off the bottom and sub-bottom layers and is received at the transducer. (see Collecting resistivity and seismic data Cedar River IA 2.JPG. Applying a water column velocity, the two-way travel time can be converted to distance. CSP methods provide the depth to water bottom, and when sufficient signal penetration is achieved, CSP can be used to delineate the depth of subbottom layers and topography of the bedrock surface.

This data release presents a peak-flow frequency analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey that was based on on methods described by Eash and others (2013) for streamgages 05458300 Cedar River at Waverly, Iowa; 05458500 Cedar River at Janesville, Iowa; and 06606600 Little Sioux River at Correctionville, Iowa. These methods are used to provide estimates of peak-flow quantiles for 50-, 20-, 10-, 4-, 2-, 1-, 0.5-, and 0.2-percent annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs). Annual peak-flow data used in the peak-flow frequency analysis for these streamgages were retrieved from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System webpage (U.S. Geological Survey, 2020) and used with USGS flood-frequency analysis software PeakFQ (Veilleux and others, 2014). This data release contains annual peak-flow data (Iowa_ffa_2019_WATSTORE.txt), PeakFQ specifications (Iowa_ffa_2019.psf), and a series of tables describing the methods and results of the peak-flow frequency analysis (Iowa_ffa_2019.xlsx). References Cited: Eash, D.A., Barnes, K.K., and Veilleux, A.G., 2013, Methods for estimating annual exceedance-probability discharges for streams in Iowa, based on data through water year 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5086, 63 p. with appendix., http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5086/. U.S. Geological Survey, 2020, USGS water data for the Nation: U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System database, accessed June 25, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020, at https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KJN. Veilleux, A.G., Cohn, T.A., Flynn, K.M., Mason, R.R., Jr., and Hummel, P.R., 2014, Estimating magnitude and frequency of floods using the PeakFQ 7.0 program: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2013–3108, 2 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/fs20133108.