Water-supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey, Issues 165-171U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 |
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Androscoggin River April Area of Mean August banks are high bench mark channel is straight Chattahoochee River Creek Daily gage height December 31 defined between gage Depth in inches DESCRIPTION OF BASIN Discharge in second-feet Discharge measurements downstream side Drainage area drainage basin Estimated monthly discharge February Feet per Second flow following Water-Supply Papers gage datum gage is read gaging station Geological Survey highway bridge Hydrographer Information in regard initial point January July June Lake left bank March March 18 Mean Gage section mean velocity miner's inches Mississippi River November Oconee River October pier point for soundings Raritan River right bank RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN Run-off Sept September Shenandoah River Skykomish River Square Feet square miles standard chain gage station is contained Station rating table station was established Susquehanna River table is applicable United States Geological upstream side Width Yadkin River
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Page 5 - ... 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
Page 10 - 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...
Page 113 - The serial publications of the United States Geological Survey consist of ( 1 ) Annual Reports, (2) Monographs, (3) Professional Papers, (4) Bulletins, (5) Mineral Resources, (6) Water-Supply and Irrigation Papers, (7) Topographic Atlas of United States — folios and separate sheets thereof, (8) Geologic Atlas of the United States — folios thereof.
Page 8 - 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...
Page 11 - States gallons equals 3.07 acre-feet. 1,000,000 cubic feet equals 22.95 acre-feet. 1 acre-foot equals 325,850 gallons. 1 inch deep on 1 square mile equals 2,323,200 cubic feet. 1 inch deep on 1 square mile equals 0.0737 second-foot per year. 1 foot equals 0.3048 meter. 1 mile equals 1.60935 kilometers.
Page 11 - 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. 1 second-foot equals 6.23 British imperial gallons per second. 1 second-foot for one year covers 1 square mile 1.131 feet or 13.572 inches deep.
Page 16 - Hill, just below Glens Falls, it makes another abrupt turn and flows southward, continuing in this direction until it empties into New York bay. From Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds to the mouth of the river the distance by water is probably about 300 miles.
Page 16 - Hudson river lie in the wildest portion of the Adirondack mountains, in Essex county, northeastern New York. A number of branches, any one of which might possibly be considered the main stream, form its upper waters; but if the highest collected and permanent body of water be assumed as the true head, then the source of the Hudson becomes Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds...
Page 11 - British imperial gallons per second. 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.
Page 2 - The gage height given in the table represents the elevation of the surface of the water above the zero of the gage.