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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
03599500 DUCK RIVER AT COLUMBIA, TN
LOCATION - Lat 35°37'04.74", long 87°01'56.43" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, Maury County, TN, Hydrologic Unit 06040003, on right bank 4 ft downstream from bridge on former U.S. Highway 31, 2 blocks north of public square in Columbia, 2.4 mi upstream from Rutherford Creek, and at mile 132.8.
DRAINAGE AREA - 1,208 mi².
REVISIONS HISTORY - WSP 783: 1929(M). WSP 853: Drainage area. WSP 1306: 1905-9, 1920-22, 1923(M).
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - October 1904 to December 1908, April 1920 to current year. Monthly discharge only for some periods, published in WSP 1305. Gage-height records collected at same site, 1887-95, 1911 (fragmentary), 1947-71, published in reports of U.S. Weather Bureau. Discharge records furnished by Tennessee Valley Authority, 1983-1991.
GAGE - Data collection platform and radar stage sensing device.  Datum of gage is 535.19 ft above NAVD of 1988, (Reference Frame NAD_83 (2011) (EPOCH:2010.0000) GEOID18). 

Prior to April 24, 2024, the datum of gage was 535.39 ft NAVD of 1988.  This was incorrectly entered in the Monitor Location Registry as NGVD of 1929.

Prior to February 2017, the datum of gage was 535.33 ft NGVD of 1929.

Prior to Jan. 9, 1925, nonrecording gages near this site; all gages at datum 2.56 ft higher prior to Oct. 1, 1933.
REMARKS - Flow regulated by Normandy Lake (station 03596460) since January 1976.
EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD - Flood of Mar. 30, 1902, reached a stage of 48.0 ft, present datum, discharge, 50,700 ft³/s.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 52,300 ft³/s, Feb. 20, 1991, gage height, 45.82 ft; minimum, 113 ft³/s Jul. 2, 2012. Maximum discharge prior to regulation, 61,500 ft³/s, Mar. 17, 1973; maximum gage height, 51.75 ft Feb. 14, 1948; no flow Oct. 22, 1922, caused by regulation by power plant .75 mi upstream.