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)
Stage and discharge at selected stream-gaging stations in the Maryland area for the floods of September 6-8, 1996
[First line of data is from winter flood of January 1996; second line is data from recent flooding. Current data are preliminary and subject to revision.]
| Gaging station | Date | Stage (feet) |
Discharge (cubic ft Recurrence per sec) |
Expected (years) |
| North Branch Potomac River | 1/19/96 | 12.87 | 31,700 | 60 |
| at Kitzmiller, Md. | 9/6/96 | 13.40 | 36,200 | 85 |
| Wills Creek | 1/19/96 | 22.5 | 44,000 | >100 |
| near Cumberland, Md. | 9/6/96 | 11.52 | 14,800 | about 15 |
| North Branch Potomac River | 1/19/96 | 25.56 | 59,200 | 50 |
| near Cumberland, Md. | 9/7/96 | 22.39 | 41,900 | about 20 |
| South Branch Potomac River | 1/19/96 | 28.41 | 93,900 | 50 |
| near Springfield. W. Va. | 9/7/96 | 34.99 | 147,000 | >100 |
| Potomac River | 1/20/96 | 40.85 | 122,000 | -- |
| at Paw Paw, W. Va. | 9/7/96 | 43.51 | 140,000 | 70 |
| Potomac River | 1/20/96 | 36.27 | 152,000 | about 20 |
| at Hancock, Md. | 9/8/96 | 35.67 | 147,000 | 20 |
| Conococheague Creek | 1/20/96 | 14.49 | 15,300 | about 20 |
| at Fairview, Md. | 9/8/96 | 9.89 | 7,330 | 2 |
| Shenandoah River | 1/21/96 | 23.61 | 121,000 | 25 |
| near Millville, W. Va. | 9/8/96 | 26.82 | 156,000 | 50 |
| Potomac River | 1/21/96 | 36.54 | 313,000 | 40 |
| at Point of Rocks, Md. | 9/8/96 | 36.33 | 310,000 | 40 |
| Monocacy River at Jug Bridge | 1/20/96 | 23.67 | 37,400 | about 15 |
| near Frederick, Md. | 9/7/96 | 17.73 | 21,600 | 3 |
| Potomac River | 1/21/96 | 19.29 | 347,000 | about 25 |
| near Washington, D.C. | 9/8/96 | 17.81 | 313,000 | 20 |
| Youghiogheny River | 1/19/96 | 13.05 | 14,100 | >100 |
| near Oakland, Md. | 9/7/96 | 7.67 | 4,660 | 3 |
(For further details contact Jim Gerhart, District Chief (410 238-4201) or Bob James, Hydrologic Surveillance and Assessment Chief (410 238-4205) or see our Web Page at http://md.water.usgs.gov/
Images showing flooding near Washington, D.C.
