RED RIVER OF THE NORTH BASIN

05116500 DES LACS RIVER AT FOXHOLM, ND

LOCATION.--Lat 48×22'14", long 101×34'11", in NW14NE14NW14 sec 2, T.156 N., R.85 W., Ward County, Hydrologic Unit 09010002, on left bank 200 ft upstream from county highway bridge in Foxholm and at mile 23.0.

DRAINAGE AREA.--939 mi2, of which about 400 mi2 is probably noncontributing.

WATER-DISCHARGE RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD.--June 1904 to July 1906, October 1945 to current year. Monthly discharge only for some periods, published in WSP 1308.

REVISED RECORDS.--WSP 1728: Drainage area.

GAGE.--Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 1,632.98 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. June 14 to Oct. 23, 1955, nonrecording gage at site 200 ft downstream from present gage at same datum. See WSP 1728 or 1913 for history of changes prior to June 14, 1955.

REMARKS.--Records good except for estimated daily discharges, which are fair. Flow is affected by reservoirs of Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge. Combined reservoir capacity is about 54,000 acre-ft.

Discharge, cubic feet per second 

WATER YEAR OCTOBER 2003 TO SEPTEMBER 2004

DAILY MEAN VALUES

DAY	OCT	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP
1	1.5	e1.3	e0.79	e0.47	e0.18	0.44	12	7.9	16	32	11	4.5
2	1.4	e1.3	e0.77	e0.45	e0.16	0.48	59	7.4	15	31	11	4.1
3	1.4	e1.3	e0.75	e0.43	e0.14	0.49	56	6.9	23	30	11	4.0
4	1.4	e1.3	e0.73	e0.41	e0.13	0.49	97	6.2	26	27	11	4.2
5	1.2	e1.3	e0.72	e0.39	e0.14	0.47	66	5.8	20	26	9.8	4.0
6	1.1	e1.3	e0.71	e0.38	e0.15	0.49	54	5.1	17	26	10	3.8
7	3.0	e1.3	e0.70	0.37	e0.16	0.52	73	4.8	16	24	9.9	3.5
8	1.6	e1.3	e0.68	0.38	e0.17	0.61	56	4.5	16	23	9.5	3.6
9	1.2	e1.3	e0.65	0.38	e0.18	0.81	37	4.6	16	22	9.3	3.6
10	1.2	e1.3	e0.62	0.42	e0.18	1.2	30	4.2	13	21	9.3	3.9
11	1.2	e1.3	0.61	0.45	e0.19	1.0	24	5.5	28	20	9.9	7.3
12	1.2	e1.3	0.57	0.44	e0.20	0.90	19	7.6	84	21	9.8	23
13	1.3	e1.3	0.48	0.48	e0.20	0.85	16	9.1	177	20	10	25
14	1.3	e1.3	0.52	0.49	e0.21	0.80	13	12	116	21	9.3	26
15	1.4	e1.3	0.60	0.49	0.21	0.81	12	13	90	26	8.6	26
16	1.5	e1.3	0.63	e0.48	0.21	1.0	13	16	89	24	8.3	26
17	1.5	e1.3	0.59	e0.45	0.23	1.2	14	18	90	56	8.1	26
18	1.5	e1.4	0.64	e0.41	0.24	1.2	14	15	86	38	7.6	40
19	1.5	e1.4	0.65	e0.40	0.23	1.4	13	13	85	25	7.5	44
20	1.5	e1.5	0.64	e0.37	0.24	1.7	12	11	81	21	13	44
21	1.5	e1.2	0.61	e0.35	0.24	1.5	11	11	75	20	9.4	49
22	1.8	e1.1	0.70	e0.33	0.23	1.6	13	11	70	27	6.9	52
23	1.8	e1.0	0.68	e0.32	0.25	1.8	15	11	66	24	5.4	62
24	1.8	e0.95	0.62	e0.30	0.27	2.1	14	11	61	21	4.8	59
25	1.7	e0.90	0.58	e0.26	0.29	3.0	12	13	55	19	4.5	61
26	1.7	e0.88	0.61	e0.25	0.31	4.9	11	14	51	16	5.3	59
27	1.6	e0.85	0.61	e0.22	0.36	4.5	10	20	47	15	5.2	54
28	e1.5	e0.83	e0.59	e0.21	0.37	5.2	9.2	20	43	14	5.6	50
29	e1.4	e0.81	e0.56	e0.19	0.39	5.4	8.6	22	39	13	5.3	48
30	e1.4	e0.80	e0.53	e0.18	---	7.3	8.2	22	35	13	5.0	57
31	e1.3	---	e0.50	e0.18	---	8.5	---	17	---	12	5.0	---
TOTAL	46.4	35.72	19.64	11.33	6.46	62.66	802.0	349.6	1,646	728	256.3	877.5
MEAN	1.50	1.19	0.63	0.37	0.22	2.02	26.7	11.3	54.9	23.5	8.27	29.2
MAX	3.0	1.5	0.79	0.49	0.39	8.5	97	22	177	56	13	62
MIN	1.1	0.80	0.48	0.18	0.13	0.44	8.2	4.2	13	12	4.5	3.5
AC-FT	92	71	39	22	13	124	1,590	693	3,260	1,440	508	1,740
STATISTICS OF MONTHLY MEAN DATA FOR WATER YEARS 1904 - 2004, BY WATER YEAR (WY)
MEAN	9.50	6.35	2.91	1.34	4.19	47.4	115	60.0	36.7	22.5	11.7	11.1
MAX	83.5	50.7	16.3	8.52	76.1	362	730	399	228	216	108	97.9
(WY)	(1976)	(1976)	(2000)	(2000)	(1981)	(1976)	(1976)	(1975)	(1975)	(1999)	(1972)	(1975)
MIN	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.10	1.77	0.30	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00
(WY)	(1993)	(1993)	(1959)	(1946)	(1946)	(1948)	(1963)	(1993)	(1961)	(1961)	(1961)	(1958)

SUMMARY STATISTICS	FOR 2003 CALENDAR YEAR	FOR 2004 WATER YEAR	WATER YEARS 1904 - 2004
ANNUAL TOTAL	4,407.22	4,841.61
ANNUAL MEAN	12.1	13.2	27.4
HIGHEST ANNUAL MEAN			148 1976
LOWEST ANNUAL MEAN			0.44 1991
HIGHEST DAILY MEAN	214 Apr 11	177 Jun 13	3,200 Apr 30, 1970
LOWEST DAILY MEAN	0.01 Mar  8	0.13 Feb  4	0.00 Dec 11, 1945
ANNUAL SEVEN-DAY MINIMUM	0.02 Mar  4	0.15 Feb  2	0.00 Dec 11, 1945
MAXIMUM PEAK FLOW		208 Jun 13	4,260 Apr 19, 1979
MAXIMUM PEAK STAGE		7.82 Jun 13	a21.23 Apr 19, 1979
ANNUAL RUNOFF (AC-FT)	8,740	9,600	19,880
10 PERCENT EXCEEDS	40	43	58
50 PERCENT EXCEEDS	1.5	4.0	3.0
90 PERCENT EXCEEDS	0.06	0.34	0.01

a From high-water mark e Estimated

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