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USGS 05402000 YELLOW RIVER AT BABCOCK, WI

 

PROVISIONAL DATA SUBJECT TO REVISION

 
 
  LOCATION
 

LOCATION.--Lat 44°18'07", long 90°07'20", in SE 1/4 NE 1/4 sec.15, T.21 N., R.3 E., Wood County, 

Hydrologic Unit 07070003, on right bank 600 ft upstream from bridge on State Highway 80 at Babcock, 

2.0 mi upstream from Hemlock Creek.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.--215 square miles.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--March 1944 to September 1996, September 1997 to current year.

 

REVISED RECORDS.--WSP 1308: 1944(M), 1946-47(M), 1949(M).  WDR WI-77-1: Drainage area.  

WDR WI-82-1: 1981 (P).

 

GAGE.--Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage.  Datum of gage is 954.75 ft  above sea level.  Prior to 

Oct. 28, 1948, nonrecording gage at site 600 ft downstream at same datum.

 

REMARKS.--There is a large recreation dam about 5.0 mi upstream.  Gage-height telemeter at station.

 

Station operated in cooperation with Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
 
 

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Discharge, cubic feet per second
Most recent value: 5.9   11-19-2004  04:15
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 58 years of record in ft3/sec
Current Flow Minimum Mean Maximum 80 percent exceedance 50 percent exceedance 20 percent exceedance
5.9  5.0 116 2,100 22.4 43.5 111

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: 2.08   11-19-2004  04:15
Graph of  Gage height, feet
Download a presentation-quality graph Parameter Code 00065; DD 02

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