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2016: Town Brook Smelt are BACK !!!

First seen by JM at Miller Stile on April 11. 'High Numbers' seen on April 16. !!!

Approx 5,000 smelt at Upper 'Pocket Park' April 17, 2106 5:48PM (Kevin Cheung)

'In Water' video taken at Miller Stile 2015 Kevin Cheung

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Updated: 4/18/2016	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Downstream Bridge at Elm/McGrath Highway
Bridge at Lower Bigelow
Downstream Bridge at Miller Stile
Upstream Bridge at Upper Bigelow
Lower Pocket Park
Upper Pocket Park
Temperature @noon (deg F)
Comments: Warm Enough ?
Daytime High Tide

TOWN BROOK SMELT MONITORING 2016 DATA COLLECTION FORM
Observed by	LOCATION	DATE	TIME	Length of Observation	SMELT COUNT	COMMENTS	WATER TEMP (°F)	NEXT HIGH TIDE	Flow Rate (cfs)
you	Miller Stile	3/25	6PM	15min	50	heading upstream	45	8 PM	4.1
you	Miller Stile	3/26	6PM	15min	100	appear to be waiting	43	9:07 PM	5.3

(Items in red may not be known at the time of your observation)
Please send your data to info@townbrook.org THANKS!

Smelt at Miller Stile 6:10PM Apr 24, 2011
click to download video of Smelt in Town Brook !

Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus Mordax)
Spawning Habitat: Town Brook Quincy
A critical food source of the Atlantic Cod
Atlantic Cod is critical to our local fishing industry...

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Town Brook at School St Diversion Tunnel Inlet
(Deep Rock Tunnel)
Monitoring Station 01105584
Gage Height

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Summary of all available data for this site

LOCATION--Lat 42^o14'40", long 71^o00'16", Norfolk County, Hydrologic Unit 01090001, on left bank at spillway into Burgin Brook diversion tunnel, 20 ft upstream from trash racks at entrance to Town Brook culvert, 100 ft west of Burgin Parkway, and about 1.5 mi upstream from Town River Bay in Quincy.
DRAINAGE AREA--About 2.0 mi² (unknown degree of inflow).

GAGE--Water-stage recorder and heated tipping-bucket precipitation gage with telephone telemeter. Elevation of gage is 14.90 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929. Elevation of spillway into Burgin Brook diversion tunnel is 18.0 ft above NGVD. Elevation data provided by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

REMARKS--Flows are diverted into Burgin Brook and diversion tunnel at a gage height of 18.0 ft (elevation of top of diversion dam). Periods of missing record are not estimated.

Nominal Elevation at Town Brook Staff Gauge: 17 ft NGVD

Town Brook at Miller Stile Rd
Monitoring Station 01105585
Gage Height & Stream Flow

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Summary of all available data for this site

LOCATION--Lat 42^o14'52", long 70^o59'52", Norfolk County, Hydrologic Unit 01090001, on left bank 200 ft downstream from Miller Stile Road in Quincy and 0.8 mi upstream from Town River Bay.

DRAINAGE AREA--4.11 mi².

GAGE--Water-stage recorder with telephone telemeter.
Datum of gage: 5 feet above sea level NGVD29.

REMARKS--Flows affected by frequent cyclical sump-pump discharges from nearby MBTA station. High flows affected by diversion to by-pass tunnel at site approximately one mile upstream.

Example
Gage Height value: 2.07 ft 11-09-2010 12:00 EST
5.00 + 2.07 = 7.07 ft NGVD29 or 6.4 ft NAVD88
(approx 6 ½ ft above Mean Sea Level)

Latest Instantaneous Values at both sites

COOPERATION BY--
Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of Planning and Engineering

These Stations are managed by the Northborough, MA Field Office.

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