USGS Water-Year Summary 2024

03352875 FALL CREEK AT 16TH STREET AT INDIANAPOLIS, IN

LOCATION - Lat 39°47'19.6", long 86°10'38.9" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, in SW 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4 sec.35, T.16 N., R.3 E., Marion County, IN, Hydrologic Unit 05120201, 1.13 miles upstream of confluence with White River, and on the upstream side of 16th Street bridge.

DRAINAGE AREA - 317 mi². determined using StreamStats version 3.0 and corrected by -4 mi² based on the drainage area reported at CO#48 (FALL CREEK AT MOUTH) under Marion County in the "Drainage Areas of Indiana Streams" publication (Hoggatt 1975).

SURFACE-WATER RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD -

Discharge:  December 1987 - September 1991 and September 2017 to present.

GAGE - Water stage recorder. Datum of the gage is 674.91 ft above NAVD88.

WATER-QUALITY RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD - Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen:  September 2017 to present.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD -

TEMPERATURE (10/04/2017 - 10/02/2020)

  Max Inst Temperature, water 2018-07-04* 20:00:00 (UTC -05:00) 29.8

  Max Daily Mean Temperature, water 2019-07-20* 28.4

  Min Inst Temperature, water 2018-01-13 07:00:00 (UTC -05:00) -0.2

  Min Daily Mean Temperature, water 2019-01-31* -0.1

DISSOLVED OXYGEN (10/04/2017 - 10/02/2020)

  Max Inst Dissolved oxygen 2018-03-25 16:45:00 (UTC -05:00) 15.8

  Max Daily Mean Dissolved oxygen 2019-01-21 15.0

  Min Inst Dissolved oxygen 2018-08-26 06:30:00 (UTC -05:00) 2.6

  Min Daily Mean Dissolved oxygen 2018-08-27 4.3

*Multiple occurrences of the same extreme in selected dataset.