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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
11208000 Marble Fork Kaweah River at Potwisha Camp, CA
LOCATION - Lat 36°31'19", long 118°47'54" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in NE 1/4 SW 1/4 sec.23, T.16 S., R.29 E., Tulare County, CA, Hydrologic Unit 18030007, in Sequoia National Park, on left bank, 0.1 mi north of Potwisha Camp, 0.3 mi upstream from confluence with Middle Fork Kaweah River, and 7.9 mi northeast of Three Rivers.
DRAINAGE AREA - 51.4 mi².
REVISIONS HISTORY - WSP 1930: Drainage area.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - March 1950 to current year (since October 2002, low-flow records only). Monthly discharge only, for March 1950, published in WSP 1315-A. Prior to October 1954, records for river and conduit published separately. October 1954 to September 1962, combined flow only; October 1962 to September 2002, river only, and river and conduit combined. CHEMICAL ANALYSES: Water year 1980. SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE: Water years 1979-81. WATER TEMPERATURE: Water years 1962-72, 1979-81.
GAGE - Acoustic-velocity meter since October 2002. Water-stage recorder on river discontinued September 2002. Elevation of gage is 2,210 ft above NGVD of 1929, from topographic map.
COOPERATION - Records were provided by Southern California Edison Co., under general supervision of the U.S. Geological Survey, in connection with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission project no. 298.
REMARKS - No records recorded above 12 ft³/s. Marble Fork Kaweah River Conduit No. 3 diverts from left bank of Marble Fork, 0.3 mi upstream from station. Flow from this conduit joins that of Middle Fork Kaweah River Conduit No. 3 and is returned to Kaweah River 2.7 mi downstream from confluence of Marble and Middle Forks. The record of combined discharges of river and conduit was discontinued in September 2002 when the two conduit gages near the points of diversion (stations 11207500 and 11206000, respectively) were replaced with one nonequivalent conduit gage at the powerplant (station 11208565). See schematic diagram of Kaweah River Basin available from the California Water Science Center.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 12,500 ft³/s, Dec. 23, 1955, gage height, 13.4 ft, from rating curve extended above 1,100 ft³/s, on basis of slope-area measurement of peak flow; minimum daily, 0.10 ft³/s, at times in 1961-64.