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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
05207600 MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT WILLOW BEACH AT BALL CLUB, MN
LOCATION - Lat 47°18'08", long 93°54'05" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, in NW 1/4 SE 1/4 sec.7, T.144 N., R.25 W., Itasca County, MN, Hydrologic Unit 07010101, on left bank 10 ft downstream from County Highway 18 bridge, 300 ft. below Leech Lake River, 2.4 mi southeast of Ball Club.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - October 2007 to current year.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 1270.80 ft. NAVD88. 
COOPERATION - Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, Headwater Reservoirs.
REMARKS - Records fair to poor, including all estimated discharges which are poor. 


EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 2,720 ft³/s, (affected by regulation; estimated daily-mean, backwater from ice), gage-height, 11.50 ft, Feb. 18, 2011 (on or about Feb. 18. Backwater from ice); Maximum gage-height: 11.89ft, Backwater from Ice, Feb. 02,2020 ; Maximum daily-mean discharge, 2,720 ft³/s, Feb. 18, 2011 (affected by regulation; estimated daily-mean, backwater from ice), minimum discharge, 195 ft³/s, Nov. 5, 2012 (due in part to regulation).
WATER-QUALITY RECORDS
COOPERATION - Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; St. Cloud State University; USGS National Research Program.
REMARKS - The Mississippi River Longitudinal Study is an integrated chemical and biological investigation of stream-bed sediment and multiple fish species at approximately 41 sites along the Mississippi River from Bemidji, Minn. to Winona, Wisc. during June and July, 2006. The objective of this integrated chemical and biological study is to determine concentrations of selected compounds in stream-bed sediment. Stream-bed sediment samples were collected and analyzed using established USGS techniques.