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Cost effectiveness of the U.S. Geological Survey's stream-gaging program in Illinois

Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4123
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri844123

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Abstract

Data uses and funding sources were identified for 138 continuous-record discharge-gaging stations currently (1983) operated as part of the stream-gaging program in Illinois. Streamflow data from five of those stations are used only for regional hydrology studies. Most streamflow data are used for defining regional hydrology, defining rainfall-runoff relations, flood forecasting, regulating navigation systems, and water-quality sampling. Based on the evaluations of data use and of alternative methods for determining streamflow in place of stream gaging, no stations in the 1983 stream-gaging program should be deactivated. The current budget (in 1983 dollars) for operating the 138-station program is $768,000 per year. The average standard error of instantaneous discharge for the current practice for visiting the gaging stations is 36.5 percent. Missing stage record accounts for one-third of the 36.5 percent average standard error. (USGS)
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Cost effectiveness of the U.S. Geological Survey's stream-gaging program in Illinois
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 84-4123
DOI 10.3133/wri844123
Edition -
Year Published 1984
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division,
Description v, 107 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm.
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