Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4030 -- Table 4

WRIR 02-4030: Streamflow and Water-Quality Data for Selected Watersheds in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada, through September 1998	Table of Contents
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Table 4. Streamflow summary statistics through water year 1998 for LTIMP gaging stations in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada

[Abbreviation: ft³/s, cubic feet per second. Symbol: —, not applicable]

Map number	Station name	Number of years of record	Period of record (water years)	Annual mean daily flow (ft³/s), period of record	Highest annual mean daily flow (ft³/s) [water year]	Lowest annual mean daily flow (ft³/s) [water year]	Highest daily mean (ft³/s) [date]	Lowest daily mean (ft³/s) [date]	Instantaneous peak (ft³/s) [date]
Incline Village area (fig. 2)
5	Third Creek Crystal Bay	27	1970-73 1975 1977-98	8.38	14.1 [1983]	2.92 [1988]	99 [6/19/82]	0.66 [10/13/77]	150 [6/18/82]
8	Incline Creek near Crystal Bay	11	1970-73 1988-98	8.02	15.4 [1995]	2.51 [1992]	112 [1/2/97]	0.86 [8/11/92]	179 [1/2/97]
9	Incline Creek at Highway 28	9	1990-98	6.52	10.7 [1995]	1.54 [1992]	85 [1/2/97]	0.56 [8/20/92]	143 [1/2/97]
10	Incline Creek above Tyrol Village	9	1990-98	4.65	7.56 [1983]	1.02 [1992]	36 [6/26/95; 1/2/97]	0.18 [8//19/92]	52 [6/26/95; 1/2/97]
Glenbrook area (fig. 3)
12	Glenbrook Creek at Glenbrook	15	1972-75 1988-98	1.75	3.97 [1998]	0.36 [1992]	85 [1/2/97]	0 [8/12/94]	144 [1/1/97]
14	Logan House Creek near Glenbrook	15	1984-98	.56	1.36 [1998]	0.05 [1992]	8.7 [1/2/97]	0 [7/13/88]	12 [1/2/97; 6/12/98]
Stateline area (fig. 4)
16	Edgewood Creek at Lake Tahoe	4	1989-92	1.43	1.89 [1990]	1.07 [1992]	16 [8/27/90]	0 [6/22/90]	27 [3/4/91; 10/26/91]
19	Edgewood Creek at Stateline	6	1993-98	4.81	7.15 [1998]	2.17 [1994]	102 [1/2/97]	1.1 [9/28/93	136 [1/2/97]
20	Edgewood Creek at Palisade Dr.	9	1990-98	1.3	2.59 [1997]	0.41 [1992]	37 [1/2/97]	.08 [8/10/92	57 [8/14/91]
21	Eagle Rock Creek near Stateline	9	1990-98	.73	1.37 [1997]	0.31 [1992]	3.6 [1/2/97]	.19 [9/16/91]	4 [1/2/97]
South Lake Tahoe area (fig. 5)
26	Trout Creek near Tahoe Valley¹	38	1961-98	37.4	85.3 [1983]	10.2 [1977]	501 [1/2/97]	2.5 [9/7/88]	535 [2/1/63; 1/2/97]
28	Trout Creek at Pioneer Trail	9	1990-98	26.8	46.9 [1995]	7.71 [1992]	457 [1/2/97]	2 [12/20/90]	525 [1/2/97]
29	Trout Creek at U.S. Forest Service Rd. 12N01	9	1990-98	12	19.8 [1995]	4.48 [1992]	130 [6/28/95]	1.9 [12/21/90]	166 [6/27/95]
31	Upper Truckee River at South Lake Tahoe	23	1972-75 1980-98	106	203 [1983]	29.2 [1988]	3,150 [1/2/97]	.7 [8/22/94]	5,480 [1/2/97]
33	Upper Truckee River at Highway 50 above Meyers	9	1990-98	90.3	169 [1995]	26.1 [1994]	2,000 [1/2/97]	1.2 [12/22/90]	5,120 [1/2/97]
34	Upper Truckee River near Meyers	26	1961-86	68.2	128 [1983]	15.7 [1977]	1,840 [12/23/64]	1.5 [8/31/77-9/7/77]	2,550 [2/1/63]
36	Upper Truckee River at South Upper Truckee Rd.	9	1990-98	40.4	72.3 [1995]	14.1 [1994]	1,130 [1/2/97]	.76 [9/1/90]	2,010 [1/2/97]
Tahoe City to Meeks Bay (fig. 6)
37	General Creek near Meeks Bay	19	1980-98	17.6	34.7 [1982]	4.96 [1988]	600 [1/1/97]	.29 [7/28/94]	797 [1/1/97]
38	Blackwood Creek near Tahoe City	38	1961-98	37.5	73.4 [1982]	8.71 [1977]	2,000 [1/1/97]	.5 [9/24/68]	2,940 [1/1/97]
39	Ward Creek at Highway 89 near Tahoe Pines	26	1973-98	26.9	59 [1983]	5.29 [1977]	1,390 [1/1/97]	0 [8/4/77]	2,530 [11/97]
40	Ward Creek at Stanford Rock Crossing	7	1992-98	28.9	47.5 [1995]	7.69 [1994]	1,300 [1/1/97]	.3 [9/22/94]	2,370 [1/1/97]
41	Ward Creek below Confluence	7	1992-98	18.3	29 [1995]	5.56 [1992]	720 [1/2/97]	0 [8/21/92]	1,220 [1/1/97]

Map number	Station name	Annual runoff (acre-feet per year)				Unit runoff (acre-feet per square mile)				Sampled flow (cubic feet per second)
Map number	Station name	Period of record	Water years 1988-98	Water years 1991-98	Water years 1992-98	Period of record	Water years 1988-98	Water years 1991-98	Water years 1992-98	Minimum	Maximum	Median	Sample size
Incline Village area (fig. 2)
5	Third Creek Crystal Bay	6,070	5,590	6,120		1,010	929	1,020	--	0.93	118	7	520
8	Incline Creek near Crystal Bay	5,810	5,910	6,220		868	883	930	--	.56	161	6.6	496
9	Incline Creek at Highway 28	4,730	--	4,730		1,040	--	1,040	--	.55	91	4.7	295
10	Incline Creek above Tyrol Village	3,370	--	3,370		1,180	--	1,180	--	.24	46	3.2	314
Glenbrook area (fig. 3)
12	Glenbrook Creek at Glenbrook	1,270	1,270	1,290	1,370	310	315	334	--	.01	140	1.3	407
14	Logan House Creek near Glenbrook	403	403	340	381	193	163	182	--	.01	12	.3	367
Stateline area (fig. 4)
16	Edgewood Creek at Lake Tahoe	1,040	2,660²	2,600³		158	474²	463³	--	.01	95	2.4	194
19	Edgewood Creek at Stateline	3,480	2,660²	2,600³	3,480	620	474²	463³	620	1.1	133	5.6	216
20	Edgewood Creek at Palisade Dr.	942	--	942	1,080	301	--	301	345	.1	35	1.2	282
21	Eagle Rock Creek near Stateline	526	--	526	565	835	--	835	897	.04	4	.65	230
South Lake Tahoe area (fig. 5)
26	Trout Creek near Tahoe Valley¹	27,100	23,000	27,300	--	738	627	744	--	3.2	526	56.5	176
28	Trout Creek at Pioneer Trail	19,400	--	19,400	--	840	--	840	--	4	215	19	274
29	Trout Creek at U.S. Forest Service Rd. 12N01	8,690	--	8,690	--	1,170	--	1,170	--	2.8	160	8.8	196
31	Upper Truckee River at South Lake Tahoe	76,500	65,100	74,200	--	1,420	1,210	1,370	--	.7	5,400	180	203
33	Upper Truckee River at Highway 50 above Meyers	65,400	--	65,400	--	1,660	--	1,660	--	2	1,300	81	264
34	Upper Truckee River near Meyers	49,400				1,490
36	Upper Truckee River at South Upper Truckee Rd.	29,200	--	29,200	--	2,060	--	2,060	--	1.1	520	45	289
Tahoe City to Meeks Bay (fig. 6)
37	General Creek near Meeks Bay	12,800	11,400	--		1,730	1,540	--	--	.41	716	40	212
38	Blackwood Creek near Tahoe City	27,200	25,300	--		2,450	2,280	--	--	1.1	2,720	88	235
39	Ward Creek at Highway 89 near Tahoe Pines	19,500	18,000	--	22,100	2,000	1,850	--	2,270	.22	1,990	67	235
40	Ward Creek at Stanford Rock Crossing	21,000	--	--	21,000	2,340	--	--	2,340	.38	441	48	157
41	Ward Creek below Confluence	13,200	--	--	13,200	2,660	--	--	2,660	.01	288	31	145

¹ Gaging-station location for Trout Creek at South Lake Tahoe sampling station.

² 1989-98 combined runoffs used as estimate for 1988-98 period.

³ Runoff combined from Edgewood Creek at Lake Tahoe and at Stateline for 1991-98 comparison period.