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  <dc:creator>J. E. Cummans</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1981</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the study was to determine the magnitude and frequency of low flows of streams in the Deschutes River basin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The streams in the basin usually have their low flows in August and September. Seven-day low flows were smallest in 1952 when annual rainfall at the Olympia airport was also the least during the 1945-75 period of continuous gaging-station records in the basin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The magnitude and frequency of seven-day low flows were estimated for 23 streamflow sites, either from frequency analysis of data at long-term stations or from correlation of measured or computed discharges at a stream flow site with data at a long-term station.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seven-day low flows ranged from no-flow at one tributary of Deschutes River having a drainage area of 1.85 square miles to 98 cubic feet per second for Deschutes River near its mouth, where the drainage was 162 square miles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mean monthly flows were determined for two long-term stations and estimated for the months of July to September for the other streamflow sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Miscellaneous streamflow measurements made over the years by the U.S. Geological Survey are listed in the Appendix.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.3133/ofr81639</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Low-flow characteristics of streams in the Deschutes River basin, Washington</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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