SURFACE WATER SUPFLY of the UNITED STATEP

36 JAMES RIVER BASIN
Buffalo River near Norwood, Va,
location.- Water-Stage recorder, lat. 37°38', long. 78*53', 1 mile dowitream from fye
,River, 3 miles upstream from Rucker Run, and 4i miles upstream from mouth and Norwood,
Nelson County. Datum of gage Is 400.77 feet above mean sea level, Saturn of J.929.
Drainage area.- 360 square miles.
Records available.- March 1940 to September 1945.
Extremes.- 011100.- Maximum irmmiiim discharge uj.emiB.iBP during uui «>« year, yeai » 12,800 .UG,QW second-feet Bcwujtu-4.ee u Sept. swpv, 18 J,e (gage height, 10,0
'eetj; minimum, 76 second-feet Sept, 13 (gag* height, 1,92 feet).
1940-451 Maximum discharge, 3S,§QQ aeoond-feet Got, 15, 1948, Sent. 19, 1944 (gage
height, 18,1 feet, from floodraarks), from rating curve extended .above 13,000 secondfeet
by logarithmic plotting; minimum, 30 second-*feet Oct. 10, 1941 (gage height-, 1.84
feet),
Remarks,-' Re,corda good exoe.pt those for periods of no gage-height record, which are poor,
1.9
8.1
2.3
Ufcle, water year M44-46 (gage height,
la feat, and 4i»«tuu>ga*ii» »e.Qor»J«-feot)
78
ill
188
I:?
8,0
3.8
eel 4,0
8.0
8,0
i,86Q
3,270
6,730
8,670
Discharge, in sboond-feet, water year Oototoer 1944 to Septembt^ 1948
a Ho gage-halght racord; disohargo coaputeA on basia of recorded »«lfi» i* s*«,',«,