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LOCATION--Lat 42°39’35", long 70°53’39", Essex County, Hydrologic Unit 01090001, on left bank 200 ft downstream from Willowdale Dam, 1.5 mi downstream from Howlett Brook, and 4 mi upstream from Ipswich.
DRAINAGE AREA--125 mi2.
PERIOD OF RECORD--Discharge: June 1930 to current year.Water-quality records: Water years 1954, 1976–79.REVISED RECORDS--WSP 1621: 1930–58 (monthly runoff).
WDR MA-RI-84-1: drainage area.
GAGE--Data Collection Platform with satellite telemeter. Datum of gage is 20.63 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
REMARKS--Diversions upstream for municipal supply of Reading, Lynn, Peabody, Danvers, Salem, and Beverly. Occasional regulation by dams and reservoirs upstream.
COOPERATION BY--Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Watershed Management. Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
CALCULATIONS: Published data from USGS is in ft3 sec-1. We have converted this to m3 sec-1 by multiplying the data by the following conversion factor: 1ft3 = 0.0283168 m3
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Data is downloaded from USGS web site, approximately annually
Version 01; EML metadata compiled in Excel
Version 02; data update, 27-Jan-2011
Version 03: January 31, 2012, updated data and metadata. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007.xlsm 1/27/12 4:35 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 04: April 19, 2013, data and metadata updated to comply with importation to Drupal and LTER PASTA. Research location name and description updated.Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007.xlsm 3/14/13 12:02 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 05: October 23, 2013, data and metadata updated. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Sep2013, 9/30/13 2:57 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 06: February 9, 2016, updated data and metadata to January 18, 2016 to comply with importation to Drupal and LTER PASTA. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Jan2015.xlsm 1/15/15 4:26 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 07: July 29, 2019, updated data and metadata to November 29, 2018
Version 08: February 19, 2022, updated data and metadata to December 31, 2020