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USGS 03020500 Oil Creek at Rouseville, PA

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Station gage imageSTATION.--03020500 OIL CREEK AT ROUSEVILLE, PA
LOCATION.--Lat 41`28'54", long 79`41'44", Venango County, Hydrologic Unit 05010003, on right bank 100 ft downstream from bridge on State Highway 8, about 300 ft upstream from Cherrytree Run, and 1 mi north of Rouseville. Records include flow of Cherrytree Run.
DRAINAGE AREA.--283 square miles.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--June 1932 to current year.
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder and heated tipping bucket precipitation gage. Datum of gage is 1,027.9 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. Prior to June 9, 1941, non-recording gage at same site and datum. Prior to April 4, 2023, the datum of gage was reported as 1028.32 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
COOPERATION.---Station established and maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey. Funding for the operation of this station is provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Geological Survey.
REMARKS.-- The 15-minute precipitation data for this station are temporary and will only be displayed for 120 days. Time series of 1-hour or cumulative daily values will NOT be available for retrieval following the 120-day display period. Although the instrumentation is calibrated at least once a year, the temporary classification means that documented routine inspections and other quality assurance measures are not performed that would make the data acceptable for archival, retrieval, or future use in general scientific or interpretive studies.
GAGE HEIGHTS OF IMPORTANCE.-
Supplied by NWS: Flood stage-11 ft; Moderate flood stage-13 ft; Major flood stage-15 ft.
This station managed by the PAWSC Pittsburgh Field Office.

Available Parameters Available Period
  
2024-06-16  2024-10-14
1986-10-01  2024-10-14
2007-10-01  2024-10-14
2022-01-01  2024-10-14







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Precipitation, total, inches

Most recent instantaneous value: 0.00 10-14-2024   06:45 EDT
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Discharge, cubic feet per second

Most recent instantaneous value: 461 10-14-2024   06:45 EDT
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Daily discharge, cubic feet per second -- statistics for Oct 14 based on 92 water years of record more
Min
(1935)
25th
percen-
tile
Median 75th
percen-
tile
Mean Most Recent
Instantaneous
Value Oct 14
Max
(1971)
23.0 63 102 201 215 461 2470


Gage height, feet

Most recent instantaneous value: 3.14 10-14-2024   06:45 EDT
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Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988, in feet

Most recent instantaneous value: 1031.04 10-14-2024   06:45 EDT
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