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At-site Flood Frequency PeakFQ Estimates in Puerto Rico Through Water Year 2017

Published by U.S. Geological Survey | Department of the Interior | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2021-09-20T00:00:00Z
The magnitude and frequency of floods at 91 rural, unregulated streamgages in Puerto Rico were updated using annual peak-flows through 2017. The USGS program PeakFQ version 7.3 (U.S. Geological Survey, 2019) was used to estimate the parameters of the Log-Pearson Type III distribution using updated methods outlined in Bulletin 17C (England and others, 2018) and regional skew of 0.28 and a mean-squared error of 0.20. This data release includes (1) a spreadsheet file showing streamgage information, perception thresholds, and intervals used in PeakFQ; (2) raw input files (.txt) and spec file (.psf) loaded into PeakFQ; and (3) output files (.PRT) from PeakFQ showing the magnitude and frequency peak-flow estimates, as well as paramters of the Log-Pearson Type III distribution and Kendall's tau trend test. References Cited: U.S. Geological Survey, 2019, PeakFQ version 7.3, accessed December 17, 2019, at https://water.usgs.gov/software/PeakFQ/. England J.F., Jr., Cohn, T.A., Faber, B.A., Stedinger,J.R., Thomas,W.O.,Jr., Veilleux,A.G., Kiang,J.E., and Mason,R.R., Jr., 2018, Guidelines for determining flood flow frequency —Bulletin 17C: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 4, chap. B5, 148p., https://doi.org/10.3133/tm4B5.

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