Stream Gaging Station Information

STREAM GAGING STATION INFORMATION

LOS ANGELES RIVER
below Firestone Blvd.
STATION NO. F34D-R


RECORDER: Continuous water stage.

METHOD OF MEASUREMENT: Wading or from bridge.

DRAINAGE AREA: 596.0 square miles.

LOCATION: 472.0 feet downstream of Firestone Boulevard, 3.0 miles west of Downey.

REGULATION: Partially regulated by Sepulveda, Pacoima, Big Tujunga, Hansen, and Devils Gate Dams; and by several spreading grounds, reservoirs, and debris basins.

DIVERSION: None.

CHANNEL: Concrete, with rip-rap side slopes, trapezoidal in section, with trapezoidal low flow channel.

CONTROL: Channel forms control.

LENGTH OF RECORD: At Station F34-R, March 1, 1928 to April 11, 1938; at Station F34B-r, April 11, 1938 to November 3, 1949; at Station F34C-R, November 4, 1949 to December 11, 1956; at Station F34D-R, December 11, 1956 to date.

REMARKS: Subject to diversion from Big Tujunga Creek, Arroyo Seco, and other domestic irrigation diversions.

 

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