Water-supply Paper, Bände 481-484U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 |
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affected by ice April ascertained by applying August Big Wood River Calif canal CHANNEL AND CONTROL.-Bed charge CONTROL.-Bed composed County Creek curve well defined Daily discharge ascertained daily gage height Date datum December Discharge in second-feet Discharge measurements DISCHARGE MEASUREMENTS.-Made DISCHARGE.-Maximum stage recorded DIVERSIONS.-None diverted DRAINAGE AREA.-Not measured ending Sept EXTREMES OF DISCHARGE.-Maximum feet below gage flow Gage read GAGE.-Vertical staff height to rating highway bridge ICE.-Stage-discharge relation Idaho irrigation January July June 14 Lake left bank Maximum mean daily gage measured on topographic MEASUREMENTS.-Made from cable Methow River minimum stage recorded Monthly discharge North Fork November October Oreg Rating curve REGULATION.-None right bank Run-off in acre-feet Sec.-ft September 30 Skykomish River Snake River South Fork Southern California Edison Sprague River square miles square miles measured staff gage Stage-discharge relation T. R. Newell Tuolumne River vertical staff Wash Yakima River
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Seite 309 - A review of the laws forbidding pollution of inland waters in the United States, by EB Goodell.
Seite xv - Provided, That this officer shall have the direction of the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain...
Seite xvi - ... 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. "Run-off
Seite 301 - Fuller. 146. Proceedings of second conference of engineers of the Reclamation Service, with accompanying papers, compiled by FH Newell, chief engineer.
Seite 156 - In the table of monthly discharge the column headed " Maximum " gives the mean flow for the day when the mean gage height was highest. As the gage height is the mean for the day it does not indicate correctly the stage when the water surface was at crest height and the corresponding discharge was consequently larger than given in the maximum column.
Seite 10 - Run-off (depth in inches)" is the depth to which an area would be covered if all the water flowing from it in a given period were uniformly distributed on the surface. It is used for comparing run-off with rainfall, which is usually expressed in depth of inches.
Seite 43 - Operation of water-stage recorders satisfactory throughout the year. Daily discharge ascertained by applying to the rating table mean daily gage heights determined by inspecting gage height graph.
Seite 152 - 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...
Seite 148 - Run-off in inches" is the depth to which the drainage area would be covered if all the water flowing from it in a given period were conserved and uniformly distributed on the surface. It is used for comparing run-off with rainfall, which is usually expressed in depth in inches. "Acre-foot...
Seite 10 - ... of which has become associated with a certain class of work. These terms may be divided into two groups — (1) those that represent a rate of flow, as secondfeet, gallons per minute, miner's inches, and discharge in second-feet per square mile...