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USGS 01100600 SHAWSHEEN RIVER NEAR WILMINGTON, MA

 

PROVISIONAL DATA SUBJECT TO REVISION

 
 
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LOCATION.--Lat 42° 34’05", long 71° 12’55", Middlesex County, Hydrologic Unit 01070002, on right bank at downstream side of bridge on State Highway 129, 1 mi upstream from Content Brook, and 2.5 mi northwest of Wilmington.
DRAINAGE AREA.--36.5 mi2.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--Discharge: November 1963 to current year.
Water-quality records: Water year 1973.
REVISED RECORDS.--WDR MA-NH-RI-VT-74-1: Drainage area.
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 80.44 ft above sea level.
REMARKS.--Records good except those for estimated daily discharges, which are fair. Diversion upstream at times each year since 1973 for municipal supply of Burlington. Telephone and satellite gage-height telemeter at station.
COOPERATION BY.-- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Watershed Protection, Massachusetts Dept of Conservation and Recreation.


 
 

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Discharge, cubic feet per second
Most recent value: 35   11-19-2004  08:15
Graph of  Discharge, cubic feet per second
Download a presentation-quality graph Parameter Code 00060; DD 01
Daily mean flow statistics for 11/19 based on 39 years of record in ft3/sec
Current Flow Minimum Mean Maximum 80 percent exceedance 50 percent exceedance 20 percent exceedance
35  5.7 59.0 251 17.0 38.0 88.0

Percent exceedance means that 80, 50, or 20 percent of all daily mean flows for 11/19 have been greater than the value shown.


Gage height, feet
Most recent value: 2.57   11-19-2004  08:15
Graph of  Gage height, feet
Download a presentation-quality graph Parameter Code 00065; DD 03

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