HCDN: Streamflow Data Set, 1874 - 1988
By J.R. Slack, Alan M. Lumb, and Jurate Maciunas Landwehr
USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4076


Station 09127998 GUNNISON RIVER ABOVE GUNNISON TUNNEL, CO.


Description, qualifying comments, and acceptable water years.

Drainage area is 3965 sq.mi.                            Datum is 6530.00 ft.
Located in hydrologic unit 14020002 at Latitude: 38:31:34N  Longitude: 107:38:56W
Station is in the state of CO (county code 085) and serviced by the CO office.
Channel slope is N.A. feet/mile
Stream length is N.A. miles
Mean basin elevation is N.A. feet above National Geodetic Vertical Datum
Percent of contributing drainage area covered by 
   Storage: N.A.%     Lakes: N.A.%        Forests: N.A.%      Glaciers: N.A.%
Soil infiltration index is N.A. inches
Annual precipitation is N.A. inches
Precipitation intensity is N.A. inches/24 hour (expected on the average once each two years)
January minimum temperature is N.A. degrees Fahrenheit
Comments and qualifications on the data:
   Records for water years 1916-37 are a summation of flow through Gunnison Tunnel and flow at the gage below Gunnison
   Tunnel. Affected by storage in Taylor Park Reservoir since 9/6/37.


Daily and longer averages for 30 water years are acceptable (some whole years and all partial years are excluded).
A water year with acceptable data is indicated by an asterisk in the time line, which spans 1874 through 1988.

                                                   Water year
1     1         1         1         1         1         1         1         1         1         1         1       1
8     8         8         9         9         9         9         9         9         9         9         9       9
7     8         9         0         1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8       8
4-----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5--8
................................***.***************************....................................................

The streamflow data Daily values, monthly mean values, and yearly mean values of streamflow data are available in tablular form. Select the desired option from the list below.

The data tables do not have column heading for ease of reading into statistical programs. For a detailed description of the format of the data tables, select the corresponding file from the list below.

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