Water-supply Paper, Bände 313-314U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 |
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acre-feet amount of water August Black Point Casadepaga Cedar Lake Cedar River cent charge Cispus River Cowlitz River Creek ditch Daily gage height Date deposits depth in inches Discharge measurements diverted drainage area drainage basin dredge drill East Fork elevation F. F. Henshaw feet flume gaging station Glacier Creek gold Grand Central River gravel Greenwater River Gulch Helen Creek Hobson Creek horsepower inches on drainage Iron Creek July July 15 July 23 June Kigluaik Kiwalik River Kuzitrin River located maximum Mean per square mining Miocene ditch intake Miscellaneous measurements Mount Rainier mountains Mowich River Nisqually River Niukluk River Nome River North Fork obtained Ophir Creek Pargon ditch Pargon River pipe placers Puget Sound Puyallup River records River basin River drainage basin rocks Run-off Seattle Sec.-ft Sept September Seward ditch Seward Peninsula square miles storage stream Tacoma tributaries upper valley water supply White River
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Seite 41 - DEFINITION OF TERMS. The volume of water flowing in a stream — the "run-off" or "discharge"— is expressed in various terms, each of which has become associated with a certain class of work. These terms may be divided into two groups: (1) Those which represent a rate of flow, as secondfeet, gallons per minute, miner's inches, and...
Seite 26 - ... and knowledge of local conditions. .In this column, A indicates that the mean monthly flow is probably accurate within 5 per cent; B, within 10 per cent; C, within 15 per cent; D, within 25 per cent.
Seite 42 - The following is a list of convenient equivalents for use in hydraulic computations: 1 second-foot equals 40 California miner's inches (law of March 23, 1901). 1 second-foot equals 38.4 Colorado miner's inches. 1 second-foot equals 40 Arizona miner's inches. 1 second-foot equals 7.48 United States gallons per second; equals 448.8 gallons per minute; equals 646,272 gallons for one day.
Seite 16 - States," published by the United States Geological Survey, the...
Seite 7 - Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900,
Seite 41 - Second-feet per square mile" is the average number of cubic feet of water flowing per second from each square mile of area drained, on the assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as regards time and area.
Seite 42 - The standard miner's inch of water shall be equivalent or equal to 1 J cubic feet of water per minute, measured through any aperture or orifice.
Seite 42 - Colorado miner's inches for one day equals 5.17 acre-feet. 100 United States gallons per minute equals 0.223 second-foot. 100 United States gallons per minute for one day equals 0.442 acre-foot. 1,000,000 United States gallons per day equals 1.55 second-feet.
Seite 42 - States gallons per second; equals 448.8 gallons per minute ; equals 646,317 gallons for one day. 1 second-foot for one year covers 1 square mile 1.131 feet or 13.572 inches deep. 1 second-foot for one year equals 31,536,000 cubic feet. 1 second-foot equals about 1 acre-inch per hour. 1 second-foot for one day equals 86,400 cubic feet.
Seite 42 - ... 1 acre equals 43,560 square feet. 1 acre equals 209 feet square, nearly. 1 square mile equals 2.59 square kilometers. 1 cubic foot equals 0.0283 cubic meter. 1 cubic foot equals 7.48 gallons.