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Rapid MN

USGS site

American Whitewater 47.5443, -90.8966

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Gauge Conditions

Cascade River at Forest Rd. 45 near Grand Marais ,MN Downstream Primary

Runnable: ? – ? CFS

Approximate - nearest available gauge. Use as general reference only.

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

Photo

Photo courtesy of American Whitewater

Description

USGS lists a sampling site (for random "Field Measurements") with 91 square mile drainage. Oddly, the coordinates given (in two different ways on two different listings) do not map all that close to the river (apparently the data layers are not in sync). No description is provided, so we do not know if the site is at Hwy.61 (as we are displaying) or somewhere slightly upstream or down. The purpose of including this info is primarily for better understanding the relative sizes of these North Shore rivers' watersheds, to understand their likelihood of adequate flows. This information puts this as 8th-largest) of the nearly three dozen (mostly random-sampling, not real-time) sites USGS has on the North Shore.