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ROCK RIVER BASIN


05436500       SUGAR RIVER NEAR BRODHEAD, WI

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 42°36'42", long 89°23'53" (NAD of 1927), in SW 1/4 sec.26, T.2 N., R.9 E., Green County, Hydrologic Unit 07090004, on left bank at downstream side of highway bridge, 1.2 mi southwest of Brodhead, and 1.9 mi upstream from Sylvester Creek.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 523 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: January 1914 to current year. Monthly discharge for January and February 1914 published in WSP 1308.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WSP 1238: 1914-16, 1918, 1922, 1927, 1933. WSP 1508: 1916-17(M), 1919(M), 1920, 1921(M), 1927-28(M), 1930(M), 1931, 1936(M), 1943(M). WDR WI-73-1: Drainage area.

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder and phone telemeter. Datum of gage is 768.14 ft above NGVD of 1929. Prior to Oct. 17, 1938, nonrecording gage 20 ft upstream at same datum.

 

REMARKS.-- Some regulation from dam and non-operational powerplant upstream.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 14,800 ft3/s. September 13, 1915, from rating curve extended above 7,500 ft3/s, gage height, 11.40 feet, from floodmarks; minimum discharge, 35 ft3/s, September 19, 1959.




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