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Rapid WI

Drainage area: ~49.3 sq.mi.

American Whitewater 45.0860, -89.5030

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Gauge Conditions

Prairie River near Merrill, WI Downstream Primary

Runnable: 2.6 – 5.0 FT

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

Description

Drainage area at CTH.G is about 41.7 square miles (as calculated by USGS StreamStats 4.0 Beta software).
At CTH.J it has increased to 48.7 square miles.
At 97th Street (our recommended put-in) it is 49.3 square miles.
At our take-out it is 58.6 sq.mi. (an increase of 20% from our listed put-in).

Our reference gauge (Prairie at Merrill) has drainage of 184 square miles, so ...

flow on this run *could* be 0.2266 times (or a bit under 1/4th) that gauge reading.