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STATION.--03077500 YOUGHIOGHENY RIVER AT YOUGHIOGHENY
RIVER DAM, PA.
LOCATION.--Lat 39`48'19", long
79`21'52", Somerset County, Hydrologic Unit 05020006.
DRAINAGE AREA.--436 square miles.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--September 1904 to September 1913
(gage heights only), October 1939 to September 1991, 2005 -2008
(discharge measurements only), 2009 to current year.
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder and acoustic Doppler
velocity meter (installed October 2011). Elevation of gage is 1,310.17
ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. Satellite telemetry
at station.
COOPERATION.--Station established and maintained by
the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Pittsburgh District.
REMARKS.--Flow regulated since 1925 by Deep Creek
Reservoir and since 1943 by Youghiogheny River Lake 0.2 mi. upstream.