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SURFACE WATER SUPFLY of the UNITED STATEP

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124 CAPE pEAR RIVER BASIN<br />

North Buffalo Creek near Greensboro, N. C.<br />

Location.- Water-stage recorder, lat. 36°07'10", long. 79°42»35", at county highway<br />

Drioge, 3 miles upstream from mouth and 6 miles northwest <strong>of</strong> Greennboro, Guilford<br />

County.<br />

Drainage area.- 36.4 square miles.<br />

Records available.- August 1928 to September 1945.<br />

Average discharge.- 17 years, 43.8 second-feet.<br />

Extremes..- mximum discharge during year-, 3,860 second-feet Sept. 18 (gage height, 14.40<br />

TSSTTrom floodmarks in gage well;, from rating curve extended abowe 1,400 second-feet<br />

on basis <strong>of</strong> slope-area and contracted-opening determinations at gage height, 14.15<br />

feet; minimum, 4.6 second-feet Aug. 6, 12 (gage height, 1.74 feet).<br />

1928-45: mximum discharge, 'that <strong>of</strong> Sept. 18, 1945: minimum, 1.6 second-feet<br />

Aug. 28, 1932. '<br />

remarks.- Records good except those for period <strong>of</strong> no gage-height record, which are poor.<br />

Diurnal fluctuation at low flow caused by mills above station. sev». w*at3» r fceoordsj<br />

and records for Buffalo Creek near OresnoljoreEr<br />

- -<br />

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