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

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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024

01044550 SPENCER STREAM NEAR GRAND FALLS, ME

LOCATION - Lat 45°18'49", long 70°14'30" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Somerset County, ME, Hydrologic Unit 01030002, on left bank, in Township T3R5 BKP WKR, 1.6 mi above mouth, 1.5 mi north of Grand Falls, and 0.30 mi downstream of mouth of Little Spencer Stream.

DRAINAGE AREA - 199 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 - Drainage area revised on May 16, 2024, previously published as 193 sq. miles.

SURFACE-WATER RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD - DISCHARGE: August 1999 to current year. Prior to Oct. 1, 2007, published as "at mouth."

GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Elevation of gage is 1020 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929, from topographic map. Prior to Oct. 1, 2007, at site 1.4 miles downstream at datum 20 ft lower.

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 period of ice effect, Dec. 4 to Apr. 15, and periods of no gage-height record, Dec. 16-17, Mar. 15, 23, which are poor.

Water Year 2016: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 23 to Dec. 3, Dec. 5-7, 19-22, Dec. 27 to Mar. 28, Apr. 4-7, and periods of no gage-height record, Dec. 20-21, 29, Jan. 4-7, 10-15, 19, 22-24, Feb. 29 to Mar. 1, May 14-16, which are poor.

Water Year 2015: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 17-25, Nov. 28 to Dec. 10, Dec. 19-26, Dec. 29 to Apr. 16, and periods of no gage-height record, Jan. 8, 14, which are poor.

Water Year 2014: Records good, except for periods of ice effect, Nov. 13-15, Nov. 26 to Apr. 16, and period of no gage-height record, Jan. 4, which are poor.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 7,470 ft³/s, Apr. 30, 2008, gage height, 9.16 ft, from rating extended above 4,700 ft³/s; maximum gage height, 9.21 ft (change in stage-discharge relation), Apr. 28, 2011; minimum discharge, 7.54 ft³/s, Sept. 19-22, 29, and 30, 2020.