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Summary of Monitoring Findings for Fiscal Year 2000

Table 1.

Watershed and discharge statistics for four gages in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS).

River	Gaging station	Watershed area at gaging station (km2)	Watershed area at gaging station as a percent of the entire UMRS watershed	Period of record for gage (years)	Mean discharge				Mean discharge in 2000 as a percent of mean for the period of record
					Period of record		2000
					m3sec-1	ft3sec-1	m3sec-1	ft3sec-1
Illinois	Kingston Mines, IL	40,969	2	61	488	17,246	346	12,251	71
Mississippi	St. Paul, MN	95,312	5	95	373	13,197	284	10,041	76
Mississippi	Keokuk, IA	308,210	17	123	2,049	72,417	2,096	74,075	102
Mississippi	St. Louis, MO	1,805,230	99	68	5,886	207,993	4,171	147,385	71

 

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