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

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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024

01027200 NORTH BRANCH PENOBSCOT RIVER NEAR PITTSTON FARM, ME

LOCATION - Lat 45°56'07", long 69°59'37" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Somerset County, ME, Hydrologic Unit 01020001, on left bank, and 500 ft upstream of Leadbetter Falls.

DRAINAGE AREA - 223 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 - Revisions: Discharges, and associated annual peak flows, for the periods Apr. 24-27, 2005, Oct. 21-22, 2006, Apr. 20 to May 1, 2008, Apr. 23-24, 2009, Apr. 27 to May 1, 2011, Mar. 20-23, 2012, Apr. 19-21, 2013, Apr. 15-18, 2014 and Apr. 16-18, 2017, were revised on Nov. 22, 2019, based on changes to the stage-discharge rating. Drainage area revised on May 16, 2024, previously published as 232 sq. miles.

SURFACE-WATER RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD - DISCHARGE: September 2001 to current year.

GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 1,086.20 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.

REMARKS -

Water Year 2023: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2022: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2021: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2020: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2019: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2018: Records good, except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Water Year 2017: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 11-13, Dec. 4 to Feb. 27, and Mar. 2 to Apr.11, which are poor.

Water Year 2016: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 18-19, Nov. 23 to Dec. 4, Dec. 6-7, 9-11, 15-16, 19-21, Dec. 29 to Apr. 17, and periods of no gage-height record, Jan. 4-5, 14-16, and Sept. 20-27, which are poor.

Water Year 2015: Records good, except for flows below 65 ft³/s, which are fair, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 16-24, and Nov. 28 to Apr. 20, and periods of no gage-height record, Dec. 5, 8, which are poor.

Water Year 2014: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov.12-14, and Nov.20 to Apr. 17, which are poor.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 10,300 ft³/s, Apr. 30, 2018, gage height, 10.29 ft; maximum gage height, 12.87 ft, Apr. 15, 2011 (backwater from ice); minimum discharge, 5.6 ft³/s, Sept. 10-11, 2002, gage height, 3.29 ft.