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Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5200


Suspended-Sediment Characteristics of the Johnson Creek Basin, Oregon, Water Years 2007–10


Table 7. Monthly and average annual suspended-sediment yield for the Gresham and Milwaukie gaging stations, Johnson Creek basin, Oregon, water years 2007–10.


[Station reference: Complete station names are shown in table 1 and locations are shown in figure 1. All suspended-sediment load values rounded to 3 significant figures, which results in the percentage of annual total values not computing precisely]


Month Suspended-sediment yield, in tons per square mile
Water year
2007 2008 2009 2010 Average (2007–10)
Gresham
October 0.16 6.3 0.07 0.74 1.8
November 46 13 12 6.9 19
December 44 67 23 8.1 36
January 30 23 74 11 34
February 14 15 6.3 3.7 10
March 16 11 10 19 14
April 1.5 2.6 3.6 4.8 3.1
May 0.26 0.45 6.1 1.5 2.1
June 0.13 0.53 0.59 10 2.8
July 0.03 0.02 0.05 0.01 0.028
August 0.02 0.04 0.10 0.01 0.042
September 0.49 0.01 0.23 0.04 0.19
Total 153 138 136 66.0 123
Milwaukie
October 0.35 4.5 0.23 0.60 1.4
November 33 8.1 6.5 4.1 13
December 31 58 15 6.8 28
January 17 15 47 11 23
February 9.4 12 3.5 2.5 7
March 11 6.6 5.4 16 10
April 1.0 1.7 1.8 3.0 1.9
May 0.25 0.37 3.1 1.7 1.3
June 0.39 0.48 0.52 7.98 2.3
July 0.10 0.08 0.10 0.06 0.08
August 0.12 0.10 0.17 0.04 0.11
September 0.66 0.12 0.20 0.20 0.29
Total 104 107 83.4 53.8 87.2

First posted October 3, 2012

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