Shoal Creek at Paper Mill Rd near Lawrenceville

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What floods at each level

• 17 ft

  Major flooding begins. The section of Paper Mill Road above the culvert will likely have severe erosion. The water level reaches the bottom of the USGS river gauge house just downstream on the left bank.

• 14 ft

  Moderate flooding begins. The water level begins to cover Paper Mill Road at the bridge.

• 12 ft

  The Paper Mill Road bed on top of the concrete culvert begins to form an obstacle and act like a dam causing some backwater and erosion eddies to the sides of the bridge.

• 11 ft

  Minor flooding begins of the natural flood plain. The water level reaches the top of the concrete culvert under Paper Mill Road.

• 9 ft

  Bankfull is reached upstream and downstream from the river gauge at Paper Mill Road.

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