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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024
01022840 OTTER CREEK NEAR BAR HARBOR, ME
LOCATION - Lat 44°19'58", long 68°12'24" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Hancock County, ME, Hydrologic Unit 01050002, on left bank 25 ft upstream of State Route 3, and 0.8 mi north of Otter Creek village.
DRAINAGE AREA - 1.35 mi².
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - DISCHARGE: May 2006 to current year.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASUREMENTS: 1999-2003.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Elevation of gage is 90 ft above National Vertical Datum of 1929, from topographic map.
REMARKS - Water Year 2020: Records fair, except for flows below 1 ft³/s, and estimated daily discharges, which are poor.
Water Year 2019: Records fair, except for flows below 1 ft³/s, and estimated daily discharges, which are poor.
Water Year 2018: Records fair, except for flows below 1 ft³/s, and estimated daily discharges, which are poor.
Water Year 2017: Records fair, except for periods of ice effect, Dec. 10-12, 15-24, 26, 30, Jan. 7-22, Feb. 1-25, Mar. 4-8, 10-29, and period of doubtful stage-discharge relation, Oct. 18-22, which are poor.
Water Year 2016: Records fair, except for periods of ice effect, Dec. 28-31, Jan. 4-10, Jan. 12 to Feb. 1, Feb. 5-16, 18-24, Mar. 3-4, and period of doubtful stage-discharge relation, Feb. 27 to Mar. 2, which are poor.
Water Year 2015: Records fair, except for periods of ice effect, Jan. 3 to Feb. 7, Feb. 12, 14, 19, 22-25, Mar. 6, 11-27, which are poor.
Water Year 2014: Records fair, except for periods of ice effect, Dec. 13-20, Dec. 25 to Jan. 6, Jan. 8-10, 21-25, 28, Feb. 5-18, 22, Feb. 25 to Mar. 1, Mar. 3-7, 14-18, 23-25, 27, and periods of no gage-height record, Jan. 21-22, which are poor.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 806 ft³/s, September 7, 2008, gage height, 13.63 ft, from rating curve extended above 150 ft³/s; minimum discharge, 0.03 ft³/s, Sept. 8, 2007, gage height, 1.49 ft.
