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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024
01022260 PLEASANT RIVER NEAR EPPING, ME
LOCATION - Lat 44°41'52", long 67°47'14" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Washington County, ME, Hydrologic Unit 01050002, on right bank at Saco Falls, 100 ft upstream from East Base Road bridge in Columbia, 0.6 mi upstream from North Branch Pleasant River, and 1.6 mi northeast of the village of Epping.
DRAINAGE AREA - 62.1 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.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - DISCHARGE: July 1980 to September 1991. October 2000 to May 2007, June 2007 to March 2009 (discontinued).
GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 127.02 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
REMARKS - Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Dec. 8-10, Dec. 18 to Mar. 31, and periods of no gage-height record, Mar. 5, 12-14 and 19-20, which are poor. Satellite telemeter at station.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 1,450 ft³/s, Apr. 18, 2007, gage height, 10.82 ft; maximum gage height, 11.64 ft, Jan. 16, 2004 (backwater from ice); minimum discharge, 10 ft³/s, Dec. 2, 2002, gage height, 4.72 ft, result of freezeup.
