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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024
01031510 BLACK STREAM NEAR DOVER-FOXCROFT, ME
LOCATION - Lat 45°09'01", long 69°14'11" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Piscataquis County, ME, Hydrologic Unit 01020004, on left bank at upstream side of State Route 7 highway bridge, 2.2 mi south of Dover-Foxcroft, and 3.7 mi upstream from mouth.
DRAINAGE AREA - 26.7 mi². Drainage Area (station description): Derived from automated delineation using 2-meter lidar data provided by USGS 3D Elevation Program, dated 01/01/2020, using North American Datum of 1983 Albers projection and North American Vertical Datum of 1988. Schoen, A.L., and Sturtevant, L.P., 2023, Maine StreamStats foundation data layers: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94O5XPU.
REVISIONS HISTORY - Drainage area revised on May 16, 2024, previously published as 26 sq. miles.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - DISCHARGE: July 2008 to current year.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 405 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
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 flows below 1.5 ft³/s, periods of doubtful stage-discharge relation, Oct. 3 to Nov. 16, Sept. 9-28, which are fair, period of ice effect, Dec. 10 to Apr. 2, and period of no gage-height record, July 14-31, which are poor.
Water Year 2016: Records good, except for flows below 1.5 ft³/s, periods of ice effect, Dec. 27 to Jan. 6, Jan. 11-15, 19, Feb. 9-16, 18-20, 22-23, 26-27, Mar. 2-5, and period of no gage-height record, June 18-20, which are fair.
Water Year 2015: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Dec. 5, 8, 20, and Dec. 31 to Apr. 13, which are fair.
Water Year 2014: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 25, Dec. 11-12, Dec. 15 to Apr. 10, Apr. 17, and period of doubtful stage-discharge relation, Sept. 12-30, which are fair.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 1,040 ft³/s, Apr. 16, 2014, gage height, 8.02 ft; maximum gage height, 8.09 ft, Apr. 17, 2014 (backwater from ice); minimum discharge, 0.77 ft³/s, Sept. 17, 2020.
