Mattawamkeag -- Cataloging Unit 01020003

• Penobscot Subregion 0102
  
• New England Region 01 (There are 53 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Maine.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 3905.9 km² ( 1508.7 mi² ) [% in USA = 63.57, % in Region = 77.36]
  The area from the USGS is 1510 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 865)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1559958 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 171.8 m ( 563.6 ft ) [% in USA = 21.79, % in Region = 39.62]
  The elevation standard deviation is 54.4 m ( 178.5 ft ) [% in USA = 41.02, % in Region = 26.42]
  The coefficient of variation is 31.7 %.
  The vertical relief is 661.7 m ( 2170.9 ft ) [% in USA = 59.40, % in Region = 54.72]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	61.0	122.0	125.0	144.3	152.0	152.0	171.7	183.0	209.9	245.7	722.7
  feet	200.1	400.3	410.1	473.4	498.7	498.7	563.3	600.4	688.6	806.1	2371.0

  

  V. Map Line Analysis

  Note- percentiles are for the feature density, not for the raw total lengths.
  

  line type	km	mi	km/km²	mi/mi²	% in USA	% in Region
  Perennial Shoreline	711.6	442.2	0.182	0.293	77.97	24.53
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	52.83
  Perennial Streams	1880.8	1168.9	0.482	0.775	79.96	47.17
  Intermittent Streams	132.1	82.1	0.034	0.054	11.08	47.17
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	56.60
  1° roads	64.3	39.9	0.016	0.026	64.95	39.62
  2° roads	170.5	105.9	0.044	0.070	75.46	64.15
  3° roads	256.9	159.6	0.066	0.106	58.22	28.30
  4° roads	1708.7	1062.0	0.437	0.704	5.21	9.43
  Total Roads	2200.3	1367.5	0.563	0.906	8.24	15.09
  Railroads	152.9	95.0	0.039	0.063	48.22	35.85
  Pipes and Powerlines	75.7	47.1	0.019	0.031	37.80	37.74

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 4.85% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 10.56, % in Region = 49.06]

  VI. Other sites

  • EPA- Surf Your Watershed - Index of Watershed Indicators
  • USGS- Science in Your Watershed - Selected Realtime Streamflow Stations
  • CTIC- Known Your Watershed

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  1999 SEPT 4, Last updated on 2003 JAN 23
  
  D.L. Gustafson, dlg@rapid.msu.montana.edu