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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
11238270 Middle Fork Balsam Creek below Balsam Meadows Forebay, near Big Creek, CA
LOCATION - Lat 37°09'46", long 119°15'12" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in NE 1/4 NW 1/4 sec.09, T.9 S., R.25 E., Fresno County, CA, Hydrologic Unit 18040006, in Sierra National Forest, on left bank, 80 ft downstream from control house at base of Balsam Meadows Dam, and 2.6 mi south of town of Big Creek.
DRAINAGE AREA - Not determined.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - January 1989 to current year.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder, 90° V-notch weir and concrete control. Elevation of gage is 6,560 ft above NGVD of 1929, from topographic map.
COOPERATION - Records were collected by Southern California Edison Co., under general supervision of the U.S. Geological Survey, in connection with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission project no. 67.
REMARKS - Flow consists of fishery maintenance release and spill over Balsam Meadows Dam. No record of flow over spillway Apr. 15, 1989. Diversion from Balsam Meadows Dam through penstock to Eastwood Powerplant (station 11238250). See schematic diagram of lower San Joaquin River Basin available from the California Water Science Center.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge unknown, Apr. 15, 1989, as there was no record of flow over spillway; minimum daily, 0.31 ft³/s, Feb. 4, 1989.