Storage Reservoirs on Stony Creek, California, Ausgaben 86-88U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - 62 Seiten |
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acre-feet acre-foot stored bed rock Briscoe dam Briscoe reservoir Burt Cole California capacity cent Central Irrigation District Colusa County concrete dam concrete overflow dam conglomerate corner of sec Cost per acre-foot cross section cubic yards dam with wasteway Discharge in second-feet drainage area drainage basin East Park dam EAST PARK RESERVOIR Elevation of outlet Estimated monthly discharge forest reserve Frank Leverett GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY Glenn County Hydrography Irrigation Paper J. B. Lippincott Julian's ranch July June LITTLE STONY CREEK Mill Site dam Mill Site reservoir N. H. Darton Nez Perces County Park dam site precipitation rainfall Red Bluff RESERVOIRS ON STONY rock-filled dam Run-off Sacramento River Sacramento Valley Sept slope spillway square mile STORAGE RESERVOIRS stream SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER Tehama County temperature tributaries U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL Water resources Water storage א א א
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Seite 2 - California is traversed lengthwise by two parallel ranges of mountains — the Sierra Nevada on the east and the coast range on the west — which...
Seite 2 - Surrounding Sacramento Valley on the north, east, and west are high ranges of mountains culminating in Mount Shasta, at the northern apex of the valley, with an elevation of 14,380 feet. Upon the crest of these ranges, the Sierra Nevada on the east and the Coast Range on the west...
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Seite 2 - Range on the west, the precipitation is much greater and occurs usually in the form of snow, which remains at the higher altitudes until melted by the summer sun. As the mountains are higher to the north and east of the valley than to the west, the precipitation is greater there, the temperature is lower, and the snow remains unmelted until later in the summer. The stream conditions resulting from these physical conditions may readily be inferred. From the higher Sierras the creeks begin to rise...
Seite 2 - October. ]n midsummer the temperature is at times as high as 114° and the relative humidity is low, ranging from 10 to 20 per cent. In the other half of the year the rainfall ranges from 25.56 inches at Red Bluff, at the head of the Sacramento Valley, to 18.19 inches at Woodland, in Yolo County. The minimum temperature recorded by the United States a Extract from report by HE Green.
Seite 6 - Ixunbardy that there is in Glenn County, and a large portion of it occurs in the summer, yet irrigation is accepted as decidedly profitable and water rights are increasing in value. This being true, irrigation certainly should be of marked benefit in the Sacramento Valley. STREAM MEASUREMENTS. Following is a seven-year record of the mean discharge of Sacramento River at Jellys Ferry, obtained from the records of the United States Geological Survey: Estimated mean annual discharge of Sacramento...
Seite 28 - Diller" recognized the lone formation on the west side of the Sacramento Valley in the vicinity of the Cold Fork of Cottonwood Creek, Tehama County. On Cold Pork, however, only a few miles further north, the exposures are good and thirty feet of the lone formation was seen. It Is composed chiefly of yellow gravel, but Is separated from the overlying tuff by a stratum of clay about a foot in thickness.