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Water-Year Summary for Site 05080000

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Water year 2024: 2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024
05080000 RED LAKE RIVER AT FISHER, MN
LOCATION - Lat 47°48'01", long 96°48'31" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in SW 1/4 NE 1/4 sec.21, T.150 N., R.48 W., Polk County, MN, Hydrologic Unit 09020303, on left bank 10 ft upstream from bridge on county highway, 0.5 mile west of Fisher and at river mile 27.6.
DRAINAGE AREA - 5,680 mi².
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - March to September 1999 (gage heights and maximum discharge only), October 1999 to current year.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 798.80 ft above NAVD88 (levels by USACE, April 2017).  Prior to conversion to NAVD88, datum was published as 800 ft. above mean sea level (levels by Minnesota Department of Transportation).
REMARKS -

Accuracy of records for water years prior to 2014 are noted in the individual Annual Data Reports for those water years. For water years 2014 onward, records good except for estimated discharges, which are poor, unless otherwise noted.

REGULATION.--Runoff from 1,950 square miles of Red Lake River basin above Lower Red Lake outlet is completely controlled by dam at outlet of Lower Red Lake. Flow partially affected by occasional regulation of Thief and Mud Lakes in Thief River basin.

EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD - A stage of 41.00 ft occurred in spring of 1997 (from information provided by the National Weather Service).
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum peak flow, 29,100 ft³/s, peak stage, 42.24 ft, April 25, 2022; maximum daily-mean flow, 28,600 ft³/s, April 25, 2022.