North Branch Elm River near Kelso, North Dakota. The left photograph shows what the channel looked like on February 18, 2011. The right photograph shows the ice breakup and flood conditions on April 6, 2011. The USGS installed a rapidly-deployable gage to collect data from this flood. The gage is visible on the left of each picture.
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