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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
11216400 Dinkey Creek Siphon Fish Release at Balch Camp, CA
LOCATION - Lat 36°54'29", long 119°07'27" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in NW 1/4 NE 1/4 sec.10, T.12 S., R.26 E., Fresno County, CA, Hydrologic Unit 18030010, Sierra National Forest, in concrete vault, on right bank of Dinkey Creek, 200 ft downstream from Dinkey Creek Siphon, at invert of Kings River Powerplant Conduit, and 1,700 ft northwest of Balch Camp.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - October 1986 to current year.
GAGE - The primary flowmeter is Rosemout Magnetic flowmeter. Elevation of gage is 1,320 ft above NGVD of 1929, from topographic map. Prior to March 2016, Ultrasonic flowmeter at the same site and datum. Prior to August 1995, pressure-differential flowmeter at same site and datum.
COOPERATION - Records were provided by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., under general supervision of the U.S. Geological Survey, in connection with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Project no. 175.
REMARKS - Water diverted from North Fork Kings River is released into Dinkey Creek for fishery enhancement from June 1 to Sept. 30 when natural flow of Dinkey Creek is equal to or less than 60 ft³/s. See schematic diagram of Kings River Basin available from the California Water Science Center.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum daily discharge, 25 ft³/s, several days in June and July 1997; no flow many days most years.