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Water-Year Summary for Site 12472600

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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
12472600 CRAB CREEK NEAR BEVERLY, WA
LOCATION - Lat 46°49'48", long 119°49'48" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in NW 1/4 SW 1/4 sec.33, T.16 N., R.24 E., Grant County, WA, Hydrologic Unit 17020015, on right bank 4.9 mi east of Beverly, and at mile 4.5.
DRAINAGE AREA - 4,840 mi². of which 665 mi² in the vicinity of Soap Lake is noncontributing.
REVISIONS HISTORY - WSP 1933: Drainage area. WRD US-2008: 1987, 1989, 1994 (P).
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - February 1959 to current year.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder. Elevation of gage is 500 ft above NGVD of 1929, from topographic map.
REMARKS - Many diversions upstream from station for irrigation. Flow largely regulated by Potholes Reservoir 41.3 mi upstream. A major portion of flow is return flows, including transbasin diversions, from parts of the Columbia Basin project. Chemical analyses water years 1959-72, 1975-76, 1978, 1980, 2002-2005. Daily water temperatures August 1959 to September 1962, July 1968 to August 1970. 
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 936 ft³/s, Mar. 3, 1980, gage height, 6.46 ft; minimum discharge, 10 ft³/s, Jan. 10, 1963, result of freezeup.
WATER-QUALITY RECORDS
PERIOD OF DAILY RECORD - WATER TEMPERATURE: August 1959 to September 1962, July 1968 to August 1970, October 1995 to September 1996. Published as 12472500 "near Smyrna", 1959-62.