Hydrology

The WS02 stream gage house and flume with low flow v-notch weir plate attached.

USFS Hydrologic Technician Greg Downing, and visiting researcher Nicolas Vergara, prepare a water chemistry sample from Watershed 02

USFS Hydrologic Technician Greg Downing, and visiting researcher Nicolas Vergara, prepare a water chemistry sample from Watershed 02

Greg Downing, USFS Hydrologic Technician, prepares to take a water chemistry sample in Watershed 02

The weir in Watershed 02. The flume is used to measure the volume of water leaving the watershed. The flume, and streamflow record, started in 1952. Stream chemistry measurements began in 1981.

Nicolas Vergara, watershed technician, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, and Greg Downing, USFS Hydrologic Technician, at the gage house and flume in Watershed 02

The stream gage house and flume with low flow v-notch weir plate attached.

The stream gage house and flume with low flow v-notch weir plate attached.

a map, created in 1990 by Nakamura and Swanson, of the stream channel in lower Lookout Creek. The map, depicting the channel morphology and the location of sample cross sections, is used as a reference for the 2019 survey of the stream cross section locations.