Site Information

The Yahara River starts at the south of Columbia County; it flows southward toward the village of Deforest and the village of Windsor. Then, it flows into the Cherokee Marsh complex before discharging into Lake Mendata. The total length of the Yahara River is 127 miles. The portion of the Yahara River included in our targeted area is 4 miles long and the width vary between 0.18 miles to 0.9 miles.. The drainage are of our targeted area is approximately 8 square miles or around 2 % of the Lake Mondata watershed. A number of jetties and two bridges are inclued into our study site. Two USGS stream gages are within the defined bounds of the site ( gage # 05427718 and gage # 05427810).The mouth of the river widens gradually once it meet with Lake Mendota forming Yahara outlet.

Site layout is shown by the two following figures:

Figure 1: Site layout by Micosoft Virtual Earth

Figure 2: Site lay out by Surfae Water Data Viewer

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