ICE EFFECTS ON STREAMFLOW - During winter, ice formation may cause
stage and discharge values to appear higher than expected. Ice effects
may be minor (occurring only at night and early morning) with baseline
flows obvious, or the effects may be major (stage constantly increases
over several days or weeks) resulting in greatly erroneous discharge.
Streamgages experiencing minor ice conditions will continue to display
stage and discharge values to enable users to estimate the approximate
base-line stage and discharge. Streamgages experiencing major ice
conditions will have the discharge record temporarily disabled to
prevent use of erroneous discharge values. The discharge record will
resume when it is determined that ice conditions are no longer present.
Daily mean discharges during periods of ice effect will be estimated
after detailed data analysis.
The 15-minute Precipitation and Air Temperature data for this
station are temporary and will only be displayed for 120 days. Time
series of 15-minute daily values will NOT be available for retrieval
following the 120-day display period. The temporary classification
means that documented routine inspections and other quality assurance
measures are not performed to the level required to make the data
acceptable for archival, retrieval, or future use in general scientific
or interpretive studies.
This station managed by the East Hartford CT Field Office.