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Water-Year Summary for Site 08279000

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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
08279000 EMBUDO CREEK AT DIXON, NM
LOCATION - Lat 36°12'39.08", long 105°54'49.07" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Rio Arriba County, NM, Hydrologic Unit 13020101, on right bank 750 ft upstream from State Highway 68, 0.5 mi upstream from mouth, 0.5 mi east of Embudo Post Office, and 1.7 mi northwest of Dixon.
DRAINAGE AREA - 305 mi².
REVISIONS HISTORY - WSP 1512: 1931-32, 1941, 1947(M). Peak gage height and peak discharge for water year 2022 were revised on July 27, 2023 based on indirectly measured peak flow.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - October 1923 to February 1926, October 1926 to September 1955 (annual maximum), water years 1956 to current year. Monthly discharge only for some periods, published in WSP 1312. Figures of daily discharge for July 6-25, 1932, published in WSP 733, and maximum discharges for water years 1931-33, 1935, 1937-38, and 1941 are unreliable and should not be used.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder with satellite telemetry and crest-stage gage. Prior to July 8, 2008, about 300 ft downstream at a datum of 5,858.60 ft above NGVD of 1929. Prior to Nov. 30, 1938, at site about 1 mi upstream at different datum. Nov. 30, 1938, to Aug. 1, 1941, at site about 0.9 mi upstream at datum about 59.9 ft higher. Aug. 2, 1941, to Sept. 1, 1971, at site 750 ft downstream at datum 9.10 ft lower. Apr. 1956 to Sept. 21, 1962, crest-stage gage.
REMARKS - Water years 2014-2017; records fair except for estimated discharges, which are poor. Water year 2018; records poor. Water year 2019; records fair except for estimated discharges, which are poor. Diversions upstream from station for irrigation of about 6,600 acres, a small part of which is irrigation downstream of the gage.