USGS Station 03294500
OHIO RIVER AT LOUISVILLE, KY
OHIO RIVER MAIN STEM
Latitude: 38^16'49"; Longitude: 85^47'57"
Hydrologic Unit Code: 05140101
Drainage area: 91,170 square miles, approximately.
Location: Jefferson County, on left bank at downstream end of lock guide wall in lower pool at McAlpine Locks, at Louisville, 5.3 mi downstream from Beargrass Creek and at mile 607.3.
Period of Record: January 1928 to current year. Prior to October 1935 monthly discharge only, published in WSP 1305. Gage-height records collected in this vicinity since 1871 are published in reports of National Weather Service.
Gage Information: Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 373.18 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 or 374.00 ft Ohio River datum. Prior to Oct. 1, 1939, and Oct. 1, 1943 to Sept. 30, 1946, various combinations of gages near Louisville were used. Oct. 1, 1939 to Sept. 30, 1943, water-stage recorders at Louisville and Kosmosdale, downstream from McAlpine Dam (4 mi and 20.1 mi, respectively), were used to determine discharge. Oct. 1, 1946 to Sept. 30, 1961, nonrecording gage at site 0.3 mi upstream at same datum. Oct. 1, 1952 to Sept. 30, 1970, upper nonrecording gage at dam 43, 25.9 mi downstream used as an auxiliary gage. Since Oct. 1, 1970, auxiliary water- stage recorder at Kosmosdale, 19.8 mi downstream. Datum of Auxiliary gage is 372.75ft above NGVD of 1929 or 373.67 ft above Ohio River Dam.
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