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Flooding from Fran - Potomac River, DC, and Chesapeake Bay

U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey

Water Resources Division
8987 Yellow Brick Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21237

Press Release : (Click to read release about the flooding)

Images

Potomac River at Chain Bridge near Washington, D.C.
Looking upstream during flood of September 8, 1996 and during low flow

 

Potomac River at Chain Bridge near Washington, D.C.
Looking upstream from Maryland shore during flood of September 8, 1996 and during low flow

 

C&O Canal near Chain Bridge near Washington, D.C.
Looking upstream during flood of September 8, 1996 and during low flow

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Table listing stage and discharge at selected stream-gaging stations

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