LOCATION--Lat 42° 00’22", long 71° 30’13", Providence County, Hydrologic Unit 01090003, on right bank 50 ft upstream from Peters River pressure conduit at Woonsocket. Records include flow of Peters River.
DRAINAGE AREA--416 mi².
PERIOD OF RECORD--Discharge: February 1929 to current year.
Water-quality records: Water years 1952–53, 1957–58, 1962–67.
REVISED RECORDS--WSP 756: drainage area. WSP 781: 1931(M). WSP 871: 1938. WSP 1051: 1931.
GAGE--Data Collection Platform with satellite telemeter. Datum of gage is 106.64 ft above NAVD 1988, from levels. Prior to May 5, 2020, datum of gage reported as 107.42 ft above NGVD 1929, from levels.
REMARKS--Flow regulated by powerplants, by West Hill Reservoir since May 1961, and by other reservoirs upstream. Extremes and figures of daily discharge include flow diverted from Nashua River basin and, at times since January 1966, from Quabbin Reservoir for supply of Worcester, MA, and, prior to July 1964, flow diverted around station in Hamlet Trench.
COOPERATION BY--Ocean State Power