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Water-Year Summary for Site 04274051

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Water year 2025: 2025-10-01 to 2026-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2025
04274051 WEST BRANCH AUSABLE RIVER TRIBUTARY 2 BELOW STATE HIGHWAY 86 NEAR WILMINGTON, NY
LOCATION - Lat 44°20'57.40", long 73°51'59.20" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Essex County, NY, Hydrologic Unit 04150404, on left bank 1,000 ft downstream of culvert on State Highway 86, about 1 mi southeast of High Falls Gorge.
DRAINAGE AREA - 0.51 mi².  
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - November 2019 to December 2022.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 1,287.18 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, 31.5 ft³/s, July 12, 2020, gage height, 2.38 ft; maximum gage height, 2.44 ft, Jan. 17, 2020, result of ice jam; minimum discharge, 0.03 ft³/s, Aug. 20, 2022, gage height, 1.16 ft.
WATER-QUALITY RECORDS
PERIOD OF DAILY RECORD - WATER TEMPERATURE: November 2019 to December 2022.
SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE: November 2019 to December 2022. 
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF DAILY RECORD - WATER TEMPERATURE: Maximum, 13.3 °C, July. 27, 2020; minimum, -0.1 °C on many days during winter periods.
SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE: Maximum, 272 uS/cm at 25 °C, Sept. 8, 2022; minimum, 29 uS/cm at 25 °C, Mar. 26, 2021.