2025 Annual Watershed Report
A year-end summary across all active stations: baseline trends, calibration history, and notable events.
2025 was a quiet year for the network in the best sense — no station outages longer than a scheduled maintenance window, and no water-quality events that didn't resolve within a normal seasonal range.
The one exception worth noting: a two-week turbidity elevation at the Cedar Fork Lower Gauge following a late-August storm, which tracked closely with a flow-rate spike at the same station and resolved on its own — consistent with normal storm-driven sediment transport rather than an upstream discharge event.
Calibration drift across the fleet stayed within expected bounds under the 45-day cycle adopted in early 2025; see our post on that decision for the reasoning behind the schedule change.