USGS Hydrologic Technician Rich Akins, taking a measurement from our reference point at North Fork Spring River near Purcell, MO on 12/28/2015. The USGS gage in the background is partially submerged. This measurement was taken close to when the river peaked. The gage height was measured at 31.47 feet, and the discharge at 32,000 cubic feet per second. That would fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in just under 3 seconds.
Technicians got to the gage by boat to get a gage height to go along with our measurement. Photo by Larry Buschmann/USGS.
Make sure to keep safe out there! If you don’t have to drive, don’t! As the National Weather Service says: “Turn around, don’t drown”: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
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