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Water-Year Summary for Site 04273996

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Water year 2025: 2025-10-01 to 2026-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2025
04273996 WEST BRANCH AUSABLE RIVER TRIBUTARY 1 ABOVE STATE HIGHWAY 86 NEAR LAKE PLACID, NY
LOCATION - Lat 44°18'11.16", long 73°55'13.10" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Essex County, NY, Hydrologic Unit 04150404, on left bank 500 ft upstream from the mouth at the State Highway 86 culvert, 3.8 mi northeast of Lake Placid.
DRAINAGE AREA - 1.30 mi².  
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - November 2019 to December 2022 (discontinued).
GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 1,674.25 ft above NAVD of 1988.
REMARKS - Water Years 2020-23: Records fair except those for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 25.7 ft³/s, Jan. 12, 2020, gage height, 2.17 ft; maximum gage height, 2.48 ft, Jan. 13, 2020, affected by backwater; minimum discharge, 0.06 ft³/s, July 6, 2020, gage height, 0.65 ft; minimum gage height, 0.60 ft, Sept. 22, 2020.
WATER-QUALITY RECORDS
PERIOD OF DAILY RECORD - WATER TEMPERATURE: November 2019 to January 2023.
SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE: November 2019 to January 2023. 
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF DAILY RECORD - WATER TEMPERATURE: Maximum, 25.0 °C, July 9, 2020; minimum, -0.2 °C Feb. 23, 24, 2020, Dec. 21, 2021.
SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE: Maximum, 78 uS/cm at 25 °C, Oct. 28, 2020; minimum, 19 uS/cm at 25 °C, Jan. 12, 2020.