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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
11401165 South Branch Ward Creek below Diversion Dam, near Genesee, CA
LOCATION - Lat 40°00'07", long 120°42'07" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in SE 1/4 NE 1/4 sec.26, T.25 N., R.11 E., Plumas County, CA, Hydrologic Unit 18020122, on left bank, 20 ft downstream from diversion dam, 30 ft downstream from Nye Creek, 3.5 mi upstream from Indian Creek, and 3.8 mi southeast of Genesee.
DRAINAGE AREA - 6.74 mi².
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - October 1990 to current year (low-flow records only since October 1994).
GAGE - Water-stage recorder and V-notch sharp-crested weir in concrete control. Elevation of gage is 5,300 ft above NGVD of 1929, from topographic map.
COOPERATION - Records were collected by Five Bears Hydro, Inc., under general supervision of the U.S. Geological Survey, in connection with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission project no. 6281.
REMARKS - No records computed above 12 ft³/s. Record for Oct. 1-14, 2014, Nov. 12, 2018-Mar. 8, 2019, Oct. 1, 2022-Sept. 30, 2023, was unreliable, missing, or affected by forest fire and was not published. Flow is regulated at a diversion dam 20 ft upstream. Some water is diverted to Five Bears Powerplant and bypasses this gage. See schematic diagram of North Fork Feather River Basin available from the California Water Science Center.