STATION.--03030500 CLARION RIVER NEAR PINEY, PA
LOCATION.--Lat 41`11'33", long 79`26'25", Clarion County, Hydrologic Unit 05010005, on left bank 0.2 mi downstream from hydroelectric plant of Pennsylvania Electric Co., 2.3 mi northeast of Piney, 2.4 mi upstream from Piney Creek, and 3 mi southwest of Clarion.
DRAINAGE AREA.--951 square miles.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--October 1944 to current year (monthly discharge only October 1944 to September 1947).
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 1,001.5 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. Prior to April 5, 2023, the datum of gage was reported as 1,002.06 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (Pennsylvania Electric Co. bench mark). Prior to Dec. 23, 1947, records from hydroelectric plant 0.2 mi upstream.
COOPERATION.--Station established and maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Brookfield Power.
REMARKS.--Flow regulated by East Branch Clarion River Lake since June 1952 and by hydroelectric plant at Piney Dam 0.2 mi upstream since 1924, combined capacity of reservoirs, 113,200 acre-ft. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers satellite telemeter at station.