SURFACE WATER SUPFLY of the UNITED STATEP

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Deep River at Ramseur, N-. C.
Location.- Water-^tage,recorder, lat. 35°44'10", long. 79°S8'40", 2^000 fe*t donstream
irom Tallroad station, at Ramseur, Randolph County, and 14 miles -downslywate ft*om Sfcaay
Creek. Datum of gage is 419.50 feet above mean sea level (levels by Corps o* Engineers,
V. 8. Arffly). . , '
Drainage area,- 346 so^mre miles (343 sq^iare miles used prior to- pept. 30, 1936').
Records available.- November 1922 to September 1945.
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Average discharge.- 22 years (1923-45), 347 Second-feet.
Extremes.- Msoclmum discharge during year, 43,000 sec\>nd-feet Sept. 18 (gage height, 34.04
TeeTrroB hlglnwater nark), by slope-area method; minimum, 13 second-5eet (regulated) '
Aug. 31,(gage height, 0.46 foot); minimum daily, 14 second-feet (Jugulated) Aug. 31,
Sept. 1* '
1922-45: Maximum discharge, that of Sept. 18, 1945; minimum, 0.4 second-foot
(regulated) May 27, Nov..28, 29, 1941; minimum dally, 0.7 second-foot (regulated)
IfcV. 29, 1841. , . , . *
g|vigtgaa.»* H» figures of ssucimum discharge for some water yeans have been revlsedj
as mown in the following table. They supersede those published In ths Water-supply
Papers Indicated.
Water-Supply
Paper
562.........
582.........
602......... '
622... ......
642.........
662.........'
682.........
697.........
7S7. ........
742.........
757.........
782. ........
&32
1002. ........
Water
year
1922-23t
1923*24
1924-25.
1925-26
1926-27
1927-28 '
1928-29
1929-30
1931-32
1932-33
1933-34
1934-36
1935-36
1936-37
1943-44
Date
Mar. 13
Jan. 18
Dec.. 29
Sept. 19
Oct. 2
Mar. 6
Oct. 17
Sept. 14
Apr. 7
Sept. 30
Gage height
(feet)
19.22
17.9
15.7
13.3
14.14
25.44-
-23.3
22.13
19.18
16.20
' 20.3
18.74
22.23
24.3
29.22
Discharge,
(second-feet)
ISilQO .
11,900
9,950'
, 8,020
/ 8,660
22, '400
18,300
16,40C
13,100
10,400
14,200
12,600
16,600
20,200
30,900
Flood of August 1901 reached a stage of 28.75 feet (revised) from flood reference
marks in mill about a quarter of a mile upstream (discharge, 30,000 second-fe«»t).
Remarks.- Records for water year 1944-45 good, except those for period of fragmentary,-gage-height
record, which are fair, and those for periods of no gage-height record, which are
poor. Large dliirnal fluctuation caused by power plants above station. Flow slightly
regulated by High point Reservoir and-small power-plant reservoirs.
Revisions.- Revised figures of discharge for high-water periods in the water yesra 1923-26,
JU&J9, 1932-33 and 1935 are given herewith. They supersede those published Ir Water- ,
Supply Papers 562, 582, 602, 682, 727, 742, and 782.
nrfr
(water year) '
ls«E-^a
Mar. 13......
17......
1983-84
.Sept ^29..... .
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