USGS 03076500 YOUGHIOGHENY RIVER AT FRIENDSVILLE, MD

PROVISIONAL DATA SUBJECT TO REVISION

Click to hidestation-specific text

LOCATION.--Lat 39°39'13.0", long 79°24'29.9", Garrett County, MD, Hydrologic Unit 05020006, on left bank
   0.7 mi upstream from bridge on State Highway 42 at Friendsville, and 1.5 mi upstream from Bear Creek.
DRAINAGE AREA.--295 mi2.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--August 1898 to December 1904, October 1940 to current year. Annual maximum only, water years 1905,
   1923-31, 1940, published in WSP 1675. October, November 1940 monthly discharge only, published in WSP 1305.
   September 1922 to September 1926 (gage heights only) in reports of Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters.
REVISIONS HISTORY.--WSP 1385: Drainage area at former site, 1898-1905, 1941(M), 1942, 1944-45, 1948-49, 1951(M),
   WDR-US-2007: 2005(M).
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 1,486.81 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988.
   From December 3, 1940 to September 19, 2022, datum published as 1486.82 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988.
   Aug. 17, 1898, to Dec. 31, 1904, and Sept. 1, 1922, to Sept. 30, 1926, nonrecording gages at bridge 0.7 mi downstream
   at gage datum 16.24 ft and 16.29 ft lower, respectively.
REMARKS.--Low and medium flow regulated since July 1925 by Deep Creek Reservoir, 12 mi upstream from station.
   U.S. Army Corps of Engineers satellite data-collection platform at station.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--Maximum discharge, 16,100 ft3/s, Jan. 19, 1996, gage height, 9.54 ft.
   (14.20 ft recorded on Mar. 29, 1924 at site and gage datum then in use); minimum discharge, unknown.
COOPERATION.--Funding for the operation of this station is provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Boating safety tips
This station managed by the MD-DE-DC Water Science Center Frostburg office.

Available Parameters Available Period
  
2012-10-01  2024-12-08
1991-10-01  2024-12-08
2007-10-01  2024-12-08
2022-09-19  2024-12-08







 (7)
 

  -- or --

 


 

Summary of all available data for this site
Instantaneous-data availability statement


Discharge, cubic feet per second

Most recent instantaneous value: 227 12-08-2024   07:30 EST
Graph of

Add up to 2 more sites and replot for "Discharge, cubic feet per second"

?
 


Create presentation-quality / stand-alone graph.   Subscribe to WaterAlert      

See this graph on the Monitoring Location Pages


Daily discharge, cubic feet per second -- statistics for Dec 8 based on 91 water years of record more
Min
(1905)
Most Recent
Instantaneous
Value Dec 8
25th
percen-
tile
Median Mean 75th
percen-
tile
Max
(1958)
71.0 227 345 539 832 937 4360


Gage height, feet

Most recent instantaneous value: 2.67 12-08-2024   07:30 EST
Graph of

Add up to 2 more sites and replot for "Gage height, feet"

?
 


Create presentation-quality / stand-alone graph.   Subscribe to WaterAlert      

See this graph on the Monitoring Location Pages