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Water-Year Summary for Site 01010070

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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 

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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
01010070 BIG BLACK RIVER NEAR DEPOT MOUNTAIN, ME
LOCATION - Lat 46°53'38", long 69°45'06" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Aroostook County, ME, Hydrologic Unit 01010001, on left bank at the Six Mile Landing Road Bridge, 4 mi northeast of Depot Mountain, 26.8 mi upstream from mouth.
DRAINAGE AREA - 171 mi².
REVISIONS HISTORY - WDR-US-2009: 2005(M), 2008.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - DISCHARGE: October 1983 to current year.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Elevation of gage is 885 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929, from topographic map.
REMARKS -
  • Water Year 2023: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.
  • Water Year 2022: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.
  • Water Year 2021: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.
  • Water Year 2020: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.
  • Water Year 2019: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.
  • Water Year 2018: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.
  • Water Year 2017: Records good, except for period of no gage-height record, Oct. 4-5, which is fair, and period of ice effect, Nov. 30 to Apr. 16, which is poor.
  • Water Year 2016: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 18-19 and Nov. 24 to Apr. 20, which are poor.
  • Water Year 2015: Records good, except for period of ice effect, Nov. 15 to Apr. 19, which is poor.
  • Water Year 2014: Records good, except for period of doubtful stage-discharge relation, Oct. 14-23, which is fair, and periods of ice effect, Nov. 12-17, Nov. 24 to Apr. 24, which are poor.
  • EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 8,680 ft³/s Apr. 1, 1987, gage height, 15.62 ft; minimum daily discharge, 7.4 ft³/s, Sept. 24, 1985.