LOCATION--Lat
42o01'22", long 71o34'22",
Worcester County, Hydrologic Unit 01090003, on left bank about 0.7
miles downstream of Central Street bridge, and 0.6 miles southeast of
Millville, MA.
DRAINAGE AREA--263
mi2.
WATER-DISCHARGE RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD--April 2007 to September 2009, September 2012
to September 2014.
GAGE--Water-stage recorder with telephone
telemeter. Elevation of gage, about 200
ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum
of 1929, from topographic map.
REMARKS--Flow regulated by upstream dams and ponds and
occasional backwater from downstream dam.
WATER QUALITY RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD--Water temperature, specific conductance, pH,
and dissolved oxygen, July 1969 to December 1981; Water temperature,
specific conductance, and turbidity, September 2012 to current
year.
METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD--Air temperature and precipitation, September
2012 to current year.
INSTRUMENTATION--Water
temperature, specific conductance, and turbidity monitor, air
temperature monitor, and heated tipping-bucket precipitation
gage.
COOPERATION BY--Massachusetts Department of
Environmental Protection, Office of Watershed Management
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