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River Monitoring Site

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Federal and state agencies maintain river level monitors throughout the Potomac River Basin. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) maintain a network of buoys that report observations in realtime.

The current NOAA online observations for the Potomac at the Washington Channel are summarized below.

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Contact Information
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin.
National Buoy Data Center
Stennis Space Center MS 39529

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