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Water year 2024: 2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30

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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024

01017550 WILLIAMS BROOK AT PHAIR, ME

LOCATION - Lat 46°37'41", long 67°57'11" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Aroostook County, ME, Hydrologic Unit 01010005, on right bank at upstream side of Bangor and Aroostook Railroad bridge, 0.1 mi upstream from Phair, and 2.5 mi upstream from Prestile Stream.

DRAINAGE AREA - 3.97 mi². Drainage Area (station description): Derived from automated delineation using 2-meter lidar data provided by USGS 3D Elevation Program, dated 01/01/2020, using North American Datum of 1983 Albers projection and North American Vertical Datum of 1988. Schoen, A.L., and Sturtevant, L.P., 2023, Maine StreamStats foundation data layers: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94O5XPU.

REVISIONS HISTORY - WDR-US-2014: 2000-2013(P). Drainage area revised on May 16, 2024, previously published as 3.82 sq. miles.

SURFACE-WATER RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD - DISCHARGE: November 1999 to current year.

GAGE - Water-stage recorder, crest-stage gage, and weir. Elevation of gage is 580 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929, from topographic map.

REMARKS -

Water Year 2023: Records good, except for flows below 1 ft³/s, and estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2022: Records good, except for flows below 1 ft³/s, and estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2021: Records good, except for flows below 1 ft³/s, and estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2020: Records good, except for flows below 1 ft³/s, and estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2019: Records good, except for flows below 1 ft³/s, and estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2018: Records good, except for periods of doubtful stage-discharge relation, Oct. 1-25, May 26 to June 21, and Aug. 27 to Sept. 30, which are fair, and estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2017: Records good, except for flows below 1 ft³/s, period of ice effect, Dec. 4 to Apr. 7, period of doubtful stage-discharge relation, Sept. 24-30, and periods of no gage-height record, Feb. 12-14, 18-19, which are poor.

Water Year 2016: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 23-27, Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, Dec. 8-10, 14-17, 20-23, Dec. 27 to Mar. 29, Apr. 3-7, 10-11, and period of doubtful stage-discharge relation, July 5-7, which are poor.

Water Year 2015: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 27-30, Dec. 2-10, 19-24, Dec. 28 to Jan. 19, Jan. 21 to Apr. 12, and periods of doubtful stage-discharge relation, Oct. 1 to Nov. 8, May 15 to June 1, June 12 to July 8, which are poor.

Water Year 2014: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 16-17, Dec. 8 to Apr. 9, and periods of doubtful stage-discharge relation, Oct. 15-25, Sept. 18-30, which are poor.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 364 ft³/s, Apr. 15, 2014, gage height, 8.36 ft; minimum discharge, 0.02 ft³/s, Sept. 12, 2020.