USGS Current Conditions for USGS 03023100 French Creek at Meadville, PA

USGS 03023100 French Creek at Meadville, PA

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STATION.--03023100 FRENCH CREEK AT MEADVILLE, PA
LOCATION.--Lat 41`37'57", long 80`09'35", Crawford County, Hydrologic Unit 05010004, on left bank 30 ft upstream from bridge on Mercer Street at Meadville, 300 ft downstream from Mill Run, 2,600 ft downstream from Cussewago Creek, and at mile 30.5.
DRAINAGE AREA.--788 mi2.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--October 1988 to current year.
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 1,058.83 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bench mark). Prior to October 27, 1989, water-stage recorder at site 2,300 ft upstream at different datum.
REMARKS.--Flow regulated beginning October 1971 by Union City Reservoir 43 mi upstream, serving as a retarding basin, and Woodcock Creek Lake 9.0 mi upstream. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers satellite telemeter at station.
EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD.--Maximum discharge 25,800 ft3/s April 1947, gage height, 17.05 ft; maximum gage height 17.60 ft, January 1959 (backwater from ice), site and datum then in use.
FLOOD STAGE.--NOAA, National Weather Service river forecast station flood stage provided to USGS April 1999 is 14 feet.
COOPERATION.--Funding for the operation of this station is provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. This station managed by the Pittsburgh Field Office.

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00065 Gage height	2012-01-26	2012-05-25
00060 Discharge	2007-10-01	2012-05-25
00045 Precipitation	2012-01-26	2012-05-25

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Discharge, cubic feet per second

Most recent instantaneous value: 341 05-25-2012 07:15 EDT

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**Daily discharge statistics, in cfs, for May 25 based on 23 years of record more**
Min (2009)	Most Recent Instantaneous Value May 25	25th percen- tile	Median	Mean	75th percen- tile	Max (2004)
264	341	506	1020	1440	1900	7750

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