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USGS 06174500 Milk River at Nashua MT

PROVISIONAL DATA SUBJECT TO REVISION

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Flood Tracking - Stage Flood Tracking - Discharge Gage-height Corrections Base Rating Shifted Rating
(About shift-adjusted ratings).
Station operated by the USGS Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center in cooperation with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Water quality monitoring in collaboration with the Assiniboine and Sioux Rural Water Supply System.

Leaving USGS: National Weather Service forecast. U.S. Coast Guard boating safety tips.
This station managed by the Billings Field Unit.

Available Parameters Available Period
  
2024-04-24  2025-11-05
1989-10-01  2025-11-06
2007-10-01  2025-11-06
2024-04-24  2025-11-05
2024-04-24  2025-11-05
2024-04-24  2025-11-05
2024-04-24  2025-10-21
2024-04-24  2025-11-05
2024-04-24  2025-11-05
2024-04-24  2025-11-05
2024-04-24  2025-11-05







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Temperature, water, degrees Celsius
Most recent instantaneous value: 4.4 11-05-2025   14:30 MST
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Discharge, cubic feet per second
Most recent instantaneous value: 167 11-06-2025   04:00 MST
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Daily discharge, cubic feet per second -- statistics for Nov 6 based on 86 water years of record more
Min
(2002)		 25th
percen-
tile		 Median Most Recent
Instantaneous
Value Nov 6		 Mean 75th
percen-
tile		 Max
(2017)
41.0 105 163 167 243 277 2620

Gage height, feet
Most recent instantaneous value: 1.80 11-06-2025   04:00 MST
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Oxidation reduction potential, reference electrode not specified, millivolts
Most recent instantaneous value: 244 11-05-2025   14:30 MST
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Specific conductance, water, unfiltered, microsiemens per centimeter at 25 degrees Celsius
Most recent instantaneous value: 9 11-05-2025   14:30 MST
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Dissolved oxygen, water, unfiltered, milligrams per liter
Most recent instantaneous value: 12.3 11-05-2025   14:30 MST
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pH, water, unfiltered, field, standard units
 
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Dissolved organic matter fluorescence (fDOM), water, in situ, concentration estimated from reference material, micrograms per liter as quinine sulfate equivalents (QSE)
Most recent instantaneous value: 56.81 11-05-2025   14:00 MST
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Chlorophyll relative fluorescence (fChl), water, in situ, relative fluorescence units (RFU)
Most recent instantaneous value: -0.40 11-05-2025   14:30 MST
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Phycocyanin relative fluorescence (fPC), water, in situ, relative fluorescence units (RFU)
Most recent instantaneous value: 0.91 11-05-2025   14:30 MST
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Turbidity, water, unfiltered, monochrome near infra-red LED light, 780-900 nm, detection angle 90 +-2.5 degrees, formazin nephelometric units (FNU)
Most recent instantaneous value: 5.7 11-05-2025   14:30 MST
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