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The Almeida family has moved to Raising Maine. They still will be exploring Maine's outdoors, creating crafty projects and casting chickens in homemade videos. But you will see it all in their new blog.

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October 21, 2005
Look at that river!

On Wednesday the kids and I were driving through West Buxton near the dam on the Saco River. We were all awed by the force of the water there.

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When we got home I wondered what the typical water discharge at this dam was for this time of year. The USG updates daily information on the flow, height, water and air temperatures.

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Turns out the median daily stream flow based on 88 years on record is around 1,000 cubic feet per second (red triangles). The day we took these pictures it was almost 15,000 cfs (blue line).

And of course, L. never misses a photo op with her Flat Stanleys.

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Posted by Wendy Almeida at 11:03 AM

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