Green River Flooding "In Plain Site"

Task 1:
What is a watershed?
What times of year does it rain most in Western Massachusetts?
What is groundwater?
What times of year do we usually have issues with groundwater?
What is flow rate?
What times of the year would you expect peak flow on the Green River?
What is a flood?
What causes floods?
Where do rivers tend to flood?
What are the effects of river flooding?

Use these links to answer the questions above:
Watershed Questions - http://www.epa.gov/win/questions.html
Science in Your State - http://www.usgs.gov/state/state.asp?State=MA
Surf Your Watershed - http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=01080203
Know Your Watershed - http://www.conservationinformation.org/?action=article&id=2
Groundwater and surface water - http://www2.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/Brochures/GroundSurface.html
Watershed - After the Storm - http://www.epa.gov/weatherchannel/
Riverways - http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/river/index.htm
National Weather Service for Greenfield, MA - http://www.erh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenfield&state=MA&site=BOX
Weather.com - http://www.weather.com/?from=banner&ref=/weather/local/01301
Geography 4 Kids - http://www.geography4kids.com/
Waterline - http://www.h2oline.com/
Deerfield River Watershed Association - http://www.deerfieldriver.org/
Deerfield River - Almanac - http://www.deerfieldriver.org/almanac.html
USGS WaterData - http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ma/nwis/current/?type=flow

Look at these:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ma/nwis/uv/?site_no=01170100&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060