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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
09394500 LITTLE COLORADO RIVER AT WOODRUFF, AZ
LOCATION - Lat 34°46'58", long 110°02'37" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in NE 1/4 SW 1/4 sec.17, T.16 N., R.22 E., Navajo County, AZ, Hydrologic Unit 15020002, on left bank at abandoned county road bridge in Woodruff, 3.7 mi downstream from Silver Creek.
DRAINAGE AREA - 8,072 mi² of which 297 mi² probably is noncontributing.
REVISIONS HISTORY - WSP 1049: 1917. WSP 1213: 1906, 1919(M). WDR AZ-88-1: Drainage area.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - Mar. to May 1905; June to July 1905 (gage heights only); Aug. 1905 to May 1907; July 1907 to Apr. 1908, July to Oct. 1908, Dec. 1908, and Dec. 1915 to Sept. 1916 (gage heights only); Oct. 1916 to Aug. 1917 (monthly discharge only); Sept. 1917 to Mar. 1918, Dec. 1918 to Dec. 1919, Apr. 1929 to Dec. 1933, Sept. 1935 to current year. Published as "near Woodruff" 1916-19, 1929-48.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 5,130.3 ft above sea level. See WSP 1733 for history of changes prior to Sept. 22, 1949.
REMARKS - Records fair except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor. Diversions above station for irrigation of about 22,000 acres, including a pump installation 1,000 ft upstream installed in spring of 1973. Some regulation by reservoirs above station; combined capacity, about 81,400 acre-ft.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge not determined, occurred Jan. 19, 1916; maximum discharge recorded, 25,000 ft³/s Dec. 5, 1919; maximum gage height, 22.9 ft from highwater mark in gage well, Dec. 19, 1978; no flow at times in most years prior to 1960 and in 1974, 1976, 1983, and most years post 1999.