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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024
01189000 PEQUABUCK RIVER AT FORESTVILLE, CT
LOCATION - Lat 41°40'23", long 72°54'04" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, Hartford County, CT, Hydrologic Unit 01080207, on left bank 500 ft upstream from bridge on Central St., 0.2 mi downstream from Copper Mine Brook, and 6.5 mi upstream from mouth.
DRAINAGE AREA - 45.8 mi².
REVISIONS HISTORY - WSP 971: 1941-42. WSP 1111: 1947. WSP 1901: 1959-60. WDR-CT-83-1: Drainage area.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - Continuous discharge: July 1941 to September 2009, May 2016 to current year. October 2010 to September 2012 (annual peak only). October 2012 to September 2013 (gage heights and discharge measurements only). Water-quality records: Water years 1956, 1960, 1971-72.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 196.83 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (197.72 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929). Satellite telemetry at station.
REMARKS - Water Years 2018-2020: Records fair.
Water Year 2017: Records fair except for periods of estimated discharges, which are poor.
Water Year 2016: Records fair
Flow regulated by Whigville Reservoir and mills upstream. Diversion for municipal supply of City of New Britain from Whigville Reservoir, Whites Bridge wells, and Copper Mine Brook.
EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD - Flood of September 1938 reached a stage of about 7.3 ft, from floodmarks, discharge, 3,800 ft³/s, on basis of slope-area measurement of peak flow and computation of peak flow over dam.
