Water-supply Paper, Bände 434-437

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917
 

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Seite 167 - 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 171 - 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 in inches...
Seite 168 - 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...
Seite 147 - A review of the laws forbidding pollution of inland waters in the United States, by EB Goodell.
Seite 174 - Maximum" gives the mean flow, as determined from the rating table, 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. Likewise, in the column of "Minimum" the quantity given is the mean flow for the day when the mean gage height was lowest. The column headed "Mean" is the average flow...
Seite 237 - Proceedings of second conference of engineers of the Reclamation Service, with accompanying papers, compiled by FH Newell, chief engineer.
Seite 1 - CONVENIENT EQUIVALENTS The following is a list of convenient equivalents for use in hydraulic computations: Table for converting discharge in second-feet per square mile into run-off in depth in inches over the area NOTE. — For partial month, multiply the values for one day by the number of days.
Seite 9 - ... 1 cubic foot of water weighs 62.5 pounds. 1 cubic meter per minute equals 0.5886 second-foot. 1 horsepower equals 550 foot-pounds per second. • 1 horsepower equals 76.0 kilogram-meters per second. 1 horsepower equals 746 watts. 1 horsepower equals 1 second-foot falling 8.80 feet.
Seite 229 - Martin. 1906. 36 pp., 5 pis. WS 164. Underground waters of Tennessee and Kentucky west of Tennessee River and of an adjacent area in Illinois, by LC Glenn.
Seite 58 - ... table. Daily discharge ascertained by applying to the rating table mean daily gage height, determined by inspecting gage-height graph, or, for days of considerable fluctuation, by averaging results obtained by applying to rating table gage heights for regular intervals of day.

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