LOCATION.--Lat 42° 00’22", long 71°
30’13", Providence County, Hydrologic Unit 01090003, on right bank 50
ft upstream from Peters River pressure conduit at Woonsocket. Records include
flow of Peters River.
DRAINAGE AREA.--416 mi2.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--Discharge: February 1929 to current year.
Water-quality records: Water years 1952–53, 1957–58, 1962–67.
REVISED RECORDS.--WSP 756: Drainage area. WSP 781: 1931(M). WSP 871: 1938.
WSP 1051: 1931.
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 107.42 ft above sea level.
REMARKS.--Records good. Flow regulated by powerplants, by West Hill
Reservoir since May 1961, and by other reservoirs upstream. Extremes and
figures of daily discharge include flow diverted from Nashua River basin and,
at times since January 1966, from Quabbin Reservoir for supply of Worcester,
MA, and, prior to July 1964, flow diverted around station in Hamlet Trench.
Telephone and satellite gage-height telemeters at station.
COOPERATION BY.-- Ocean State Power.
