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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
11403450 Milk Ranch Conduit at Outlet, near Bucks Lodge, CA
LOCATION - Lat 39°54'09", long 121°13'36" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in SW 1/4 SW 1/4 sec.29, T.24 N., R.7 E., Plumas County, CA, Hydrologic Unit 18020121, Plumas National Forest, on left bank, 150 ft upstream from right abutment of Lower Bucks Lake Dam, 200 ft upstream from outlet, and 3.4 mi northwest of Bucks Lodge.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - October 1969 to September 1971, October 1975 to September 1984, October 1986 to current year. Unpublished records for water years 1981-84 available in files of the U.S. Geological Survey.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder in 3-ft steel pipe. Elevation of gage is 5,050 ft above NGVD of 1929.
COOPERATION - Records were collected by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., under general supervision of the U.S. Geological Survey, in connection with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission project no. 619.
REMARKS - Conduit diverts from channel below Three Lakes Reservoir, capacity, 513 acre-ft, and from 12 additional diversions along the conduit. Water is used for power at Bucks Creek Powerplant (station 11403700) and Grizzly Powerplant (station 11404240). See schematic diagram of North Fork Feather River Basin available from the California Water Science Center.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum daily discharge, 71 ft³/s, Apr. 29, 1995, May 17, 1996; no flow for many days in water years 1997-2000, 2020, 2021, and several days in May 2001 and Sept. 2019.