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  <dc:contributor>K. A. Oberg</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>D. M. Mades</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1984</dc:date>
  <dc:description>Data uses and funding sources were identified for 138 continuous-record discharge-gaging stations currently (1983) operated as part of the stream-gaging program in Illinois. Streamflow data from five of those stations are used only for regional hydrology studies. Most streamflow data are used for defining regional hydrology, defining rainfall-runoff relations, flood forecasting, regulating navigation systems, and water-quality sampling. Based on the evaluations of data use and of alternative methods for determining streamflow in place of stream gaging, no stations in the 1983 stream-gaging program should be deactivated. The current budget (in 1983 dollars) for operating the 138-station program is $768,000 per year. The average standard error of instantaneous discharge for the current practice for visiting the gaging stations is 36.5 percent. Missing stage record accounts for one-third of the 36.5 percent average standard error. (USGS)</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.3133/wri844123</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division,</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Cost effectiveness of the U.S. Geological Survey's stream-gaging program in Illinois</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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