The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 263 values from 2 gauges within it. Discharge is a property of a gauge and its reach, not of this drainage area, so this page reports the network and its records rather than a single figure.

Gauges

263

Values held

1912–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Pajaro huc8 subbasin

2 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.

Flood peaks, as measured

This gauge's flood record, as measured. Unlike a daily mean it is the discharge at the moment the river was highest, which is the figure flood frequency analysis is built on.

Largest measured flow of each year at TRES PINOS C NR TRES PINOS CA

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1940–2025.

Show relevant events (1 event)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Published by the gauge's own operator from its sub-daily record; Hydrionis stores the figure rather than recomputing it. A year the gauge did not cover produces no value rather than a low one, and the gaps are stated below the chart. A peak is a property of this gauge and its reach: a larger flood upstream or downstream of it is not in this series.

What the shaded periods are (1 event)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse	Flood	2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

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Underlying data
Period	TRES PINOS C NR TRES PINOS CA (m³/s)
1940	127
1941	228
1942	25.4
1943	71.4
1944	14.3
1945	21.2
1946	11.3
1948	1.76
1949	14.9
1950	6.17
1952	137
1953	6.99
1954	8.27
1955	6.14
1956	1.53
1958	155
1959	8.01
1960	16.8
1961	0.116
1962	27.7
1963	1.22
1964	1.22
1965	46.7
1967	32.3
1969	156
1970	21.5
1971	5.04
1973	185
1974	43.0
1975	147
1976	16.6
1978	200
1979	26.9
1980	104
1981	2.97
1982	83.3
1983	249
1997	199
1998	770
1999	14.3
2000	5.66
2001	13.0
2002	1.67
2004	31.7
2005	69.7
2006	15.2
2008	14.2
2009	0.093
2010	33.1
2011	38.2
2012	0.258
2013	0.283
2014	0.010
2016	29.4
2017	41.6
2018	1.25
2019	26.5
2020	0.098
2021	24.8
2023	138
2024	21.0
2025	4.76

About this series

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source	United States Geological Survey — National Water Information System · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to exist	Measured
Period held	1940–2025
Completeness	72.1% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	12 separate periods inside 1940–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1984 to 1996 — 13 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1940 and is not continuous from it: 86 years separate the first value from the last, and 72% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-10-01
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

How much of the rain came back out

A discharge in cubic metres per second cannot be compared with anything: the larger number may only mean the larger catchment. Divided by the area draining to the gauge it becomes a depth of water over that land, which answers a question a reader already has — of the rain that fell here, how much came back out as river?

Water leaving the catchment above TRES PINOS C NR TRES PINOS CA, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1940–2025.

Show relevant events (1 event)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Computed by Hydrionis from the published annual mean flow and the catchment area the station's own publisher states. It is not a water balance: the difference between rainfall and runoff is not evaporation alone but also change in groundwater storage, water abstracted and taken elsewhere, and water imported by transfer schemes — which is why a catchment can yield more runoff than the rain that fell on it without anything being measured wrongly. A different area figure rescales every value here by the ratio between them.

What the shaded periods are (1 event)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse	Flood	2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

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Underlying data
Period	TRES PINOS C NR TRES PINOS CA (mm)
1940	45.0
1941	123
1942	24.0
1943	30.0
1944	13.0
1945	13.0
1946	5.00
1947	3.00
1948	2.00
1949	6.00
1950	6.00
1951	11.0
1952	62.0
1953	7.00
1954	5.00
1955	32.0
1956	42.0
1957	4.00
1958	84.0
1959	5.00
1960	4.00
1961	1.00
1962	11.0
1963	6.00
1964	6.00
1965	16.0
1966	10.0
1967	36.0
1968	2.00
1969	74.0
1970	15.0
1971	7.00
1972	1.00
1973	55.0
1974	20.0
1975	24.0
1976	4.00
1977	1.00
1978	86.0
1979	17.0
1980	43.0
1981	9.00
1982	63.0
1997	55.0
1998	167
1999	15.0
2000	21.0
2001	10.0
2002	4.00
2003	1.00
2004	4.00
2005	30.0
2006	20.0
2007	4.00
2008	5.00
2009	1.00
2010	16.0
2011	26.0
2012	4.00
2013	1.00
2014	0
2015	0
2016	13.0
2017	39.0
2018	0
2019	24.0
2020	1.00
2021	3.00
2022	2.00
2023	95.0
2024	14.0
2025	3.00

About this series

Source	United States Geological Survey — National Water Information System · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to exist	Derived Computed by Hydrionis
Period held	1940–2025
Completeness	83.7% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	One period inside 1940–2025 holds no value: 1983 to 1996, 14 years with no reading. It is drawn as a break in the line and is never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1940 and is not continuous from it: 86 years separate the first value from the last, and 84% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Inputs last read	2026-10-01 · when the records this was computed from were last read from their publishers
Calculation date	2026-08-24 · when the calculation method was last versioned, not a reading of any publisher
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Pajaro and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
TRES PINOS C NR TRES PINOS CA	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	252	1940–2026
PAJARO R A WATSONVILLE CA	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	11	1912–2026

How these gauges were attached to this water

Assigned by the publisher to a numbered basin Every gauge here is assigned to this drainage area by its own publisher, which issues the area an official code — 18060002. A drainage area is not a river: it contains the tributaries as well as the main channel, and a gauge in it may be on any of them.

What each gauge’s link to this water rests on
Gauge	Evidence	Established
TRES PINOS C NR TRES PINOS CA	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02
PAJARO R A WATSONVILLE CA	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02

What this record holds

Hydrionis decides which waters get a page, and which of those are offered to search, from what is actually held rather than from how the page reads. Five signals are counted; this record has 3 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	1	no
Years spanned	115	yes, 20 or more
Values held	263	no
Distinct measurements	5	yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it	2	yes, 2 or more
Official identifiers	1	recorded, not counted

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No bulk download is offered here, which is a licence position rather than a product one: at least one contributing publisher does not permit redistribution. The values can be read on the page, cited, and pointed to at source.

Attribution and citation

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Pajaro gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-pajaro/

Cite Hydrionis where you rely on values Hydrionis computed, on the method that produced them, or on the compilation itself. The underlying measurements remain the publishers’ and their attribution requirements apply to you directly.

Recommended, not required. Hydrionis does not claim rights over unmodified public data it relayed, and doing arithmetic on somebody else’s measurements does not make them Hydrionis’s. Cite the version and the access date: the Pajaro gauge records changes as publishers release and as methods are revised, and a citation without both cannot be checked later. Full guidance is on cite and reuse.

None of the contributing licences requires attribution. Crediting the publishers is still good practice and they are listed above.

Where these figures come from

MeasuredHigh confidence2025-03-15

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 11157500, annual peak streamflow. Licence: Open.

Method: The instantaneous maximum discharge of each water year as published by USGS, dated to the day it occurred. One value per October-to-September water year; where the publisher lists both a systematic and a historic peak for a year, the larger is the annual maximum. Values the publisher marks as maximum daily averages are not held here, because they are not instantaneous peaks. Values marked as bounded rather than measured are held as censored observations carrying the bound. Cubic feet per second are converted to cubic metres per second and the publisher unit is recorded alongside.

Rating curves are extrapolated at extreme discharges, so the largest values in a peak series carry the largest measurement uncertainty. Data from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System, a work of the United States government and therefore in the public domain.

Retrieved 1 October 2026.