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Water-Year Summary for Site 02274005

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Available Parameters
00060 Discharge(Mean)  
00065 Gage height(Mean)  

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

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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024
02274005 OTTER CREEK NEAR OKEECHOBEE, FL
LOCATION - Lat 27°22'38", long 80°50'44" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in SE 1/4 sec.32, T.35 S., R.35 E., Okeechobee County, FL, Hydrologic Unit 03090102, 80 ft upstream from concrete-weir, 150 ft downstream from bridge on County Road 68A, 1.9 mi upstream from mouth, and 10 mi north of Okeechobee.
DRAINAGE AREA - 8.56 mi².
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - July 2003 to current year.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder, concrete weir, and data-collection platform. Datum of gage is at NAVD of 1988 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bench mark).
COOPERATION - This gage is monitored in cooperation with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
REMARKS - Discharge not published Sept. 10-28, 2017 when the gage structure and steel sheet pile-weir were destroyed by Hurricane Irma. Discharge not published Jan. 28, 2019- May 1, 2019 when the concrete weir was constructed.