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Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5041

Channel Change and Bed-Material Transport in the Umpqua River Basin, Oregon

Table 1. U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging stations used in this study.

[Recurrence interval flood magnitude calculated using Bulletin 17B guidelines (U.S. Water Resources Council, 1981). Mean annual flow computed for period when data were available for all streamflow-gaging stations. Abbreviations: FPKM, flood-plain kilometer; NUFPKM, North Umpqua flood-plain kilometer; km2, square kilometer; m3/s cubic meter per second]

Station
name
Station
No.
Period of
record
Location Corresponding
study reach
Mean
annual flow
water years
1955–2004
(m3/s)
Drainage
area
(km2)
Peak flows
(m3/s)
  Recurrence interval flood magnitude
(m3/s)
December
1964
November–
December
1996
December
2005
1.5 year 2 year 5 year 10 year 100 year
South Umpqua

River at Tiller
14308000 1910–11;
1939–2010
FPKM 273 Days Creek
reach
29 1,163 1,705 1,303 895   377 481 763 963 1,641
South Umpqua

River near
Brockway
14312000 1905–12;
1923–26;
1942–2010
FPKM 195.3 Roseburg
reach
78 4,325 3,540 2,161 2,164 1,033 1,292 1,926 2,328 3,471
Umpqua River

at Elkton
14321000 1905–2010 FPKM 84.7 Garden Valley
and Coast
Range
reaches
210 9,539 7,505 4,786 4,815 2,166 2,660 3,885 4,683 7,084
North Umpqua

River at
Winchester
14319500 1908–13;
1923–29;
1954–2010
NUFPKM 2.5 North Umpqua
reach
106 3,481 4,248 2,549 2,005 1,007 1,256 1,889 2,309 3,599

First posted September 29, 2011

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