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At-site flood frequency estimates for 154 urban streamgages in Washington D.C. and parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia using data through water year 2022
This dataset contains site information and results of flood frequency analysis for 154 urban streamflow gaging stations (streamgages) operated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Washington D.C. and parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. This dataset was created to support the Washington D.C. StreamStats project funded by the Washington D.C. Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE). Site information and annual peak-flow data from the 1924 - 2022 water years were obtained from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) database (U.S. Geological Survey, 2025). Flood frequency analysis was conducted in version 8.1.0 of USGS PeakFQ software (Siefken and others, 2024) in the R environment (R Core Team, 2024) following the guidelines set forth in Bulletin 17C (England and others, 2018) and using the approaches described in the most recent flood frequency reports for Pennsylvania and North Carolina (Roland and Stuckey, 2019; Feaster and others, 2023). Site information is provided in .csv format ("DCStreamStats_FFreq_SiteInfo.csv"). Peak-flow ("DCStreamStats_FFREQ.pkf"), specification ("DCStreamStats_FFreq.psf"), and output files from PeakFQ ("DCStreamStats_FFreq_emp.csv", "DCStreamStats_FFreq_lp3.csv", "DCStreamStats_FFreq_mgb.csv", "DCStreamStats_FFreq_qnt.csv", and "DCStreamStats_FFreq_trd.csv") are provided. Estimates of the 0.5, 0.2, 0.1, 0.04, 0.02, 0.01, 0.005, and 0.002 annual exceedance probabilities (the 2-, 5-, 10-, 25-, 50-, 100-, 200-, and 500-year recurrence intervals, respectively) are in file "DCStreamStats_FFreq_qnt.csv".his dataset contains site information and results of flood frequency analysis for 154 urban streamflow gaging stations (streamgages) operated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Washington D.C. and parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. This dataset was created to support the Washington D.C. StreamStats project funded by the Washington D.C. Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE). Site information and annual peak-flow data from the 1924 - 2022 water years were obtained from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) database (U.S. Geological Survey, 2025). Flood frequency analysis was conducted in version 8.1.0 of USGS PeakFQ software (Siefken and others, 2024) in the R environment (R Core Team, 2024) following the guidelines set forth in Bulletin 17C (England and others, 2018) and using the approaches described in the most recent flood frequency reports for Pennsylvania and North Carolina (Roland and Stuckey, 2019; Feaster and others, 2023). Site information is provided in .csv format ("DCStreamStats_FFreq_SiteInfo.csv"). Peak-flow ("DCStreamStats_FFREQ.pkf"), specification ("DCStreamStats_FFreq.psf"), and output files from PeakFQ ("DCStreamStats_FFreq_emp.csv", "DCStreamStats_FFreq_lp3.csv", "DCStreamStats_FFreq_mgb.csv", "DCStreamStats_FFreq_qnt.csv", and "DCStreamStats_FFreq_trd.csv") are provided. Estimates of the 0.5, 0.2, 0.1, 0.04, 0.02, 0.01, 0.005, and 0.002 annual exceedance probabilities (the 2-, 5-, 10-, 25-, 50-, 100-, 200-, and 500-year recurrence intervals, respectively) are in file "DCStreamStats_FFreq_qnt.csv".
| Author(s) |
Brooke A Kline |
| Publication Date | 2025-09-22 |
| Beginning Date of Data | 2025 |
| Ending Date of Data | 2025 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5066/P13IK9GS |
| Citation | Kline, B.A., Greise, A.J., Heal, E.N., Katoski, M.P., and Onyullo, G.E., 2025, At-site flood frequency estimates for 154 urban streamgages in Washington D.C. and parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia using data through water year 2022: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13IK9GS. |
| Metadata Contact | |
| Metadata Date | 2026-02-12 |
| Related Publication | There was no related primary publication associated with this data release. |
| Citations of these data | No citations of these data are known at this time. |
| Access | public |
| License | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
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