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" 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... "
Mineral Resources of Alaska: Report on Progress of Investigations in 1908 - Page 372
by Geological Survey (U.S.), Alfred Hulse Brooks - 1909 - 418 pages
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Water Resources of California: Part 3. Stream Measurements in the ..., Part 3

Harry Deyoe McGlashan, Geological Survey (U.S.) - Delta Region (Calif.) - 1913 - 1154 pages
...from which others are computed by the use of the factors given in the table of equivalents on page 54. "Second-feet per square mile" is the average number...assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as regards time and area. "Miner's inch" represents a rate of flow and varies in different States,...
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Bulletin, Issues 7-10

Virginia. Division of Mineral Resources - Geology - 1913 - 736 pages
...foot a second. lt is generally used as a fundamental unit from which others are computed. "8econd-feet per square mile" is the average number of cubic feet...assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as regards time and area. "Run-off, depth in inches," is the depth to which a drainage area would...
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Geological Survey Water-supply Paper, Volumes 310-312

Geological Survey (U.S.) - Irrigation - 1913 - 1250 pages
...which others are computed by the use of the factors given in the accompanying table of equivalents. 'Second-feet per square mile" is the average number...per second from each square mile of area drained, on tie assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as regards time and area. • Kun-off,...
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Water-supply Paper, Volumes 320-323

Irrigation - 1913 - 750 pages
...from which others are computed by the use of the factors given in the following table of equivalents. "Second-feet per square mile" is the average number of cubic feet of water ilowing per second from each square mile of area drained, on the assumption that the run-off is distributed...
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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey

Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1914 - 480 pages
...which others are computed by the use of the factors given in the following table of equivalents. " Second-feet per square mile " is the average number...assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as regards time and area. "Run-off (depth in inches)" is the depth to which the drainage area...
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Biennial Report, Volume 5

South Dakota. State Engineer - 1914 - 266 pages
...which others are computed by the use of the factors given in the accompanying table of equivalents. "Second-feet per square mile" is the average number...assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as regards time and area. "Run-off, depth in inches," is the depth to which the drainage area...
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Engineering Geology

Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson - Engineering geology - 1914 - 726 pages
...per second of time. This is a more definite unit of measurement than the miner's inch. Second feet per square mile is the average number of cubic feet...per second from each square mile of area drained, it being assumed that the run-off is evenly distributed. Run-off in inches is the depth to which the...
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Geological Survey Water-supply Paper, Volumes 341-342

Geological Survey (U.S.) - Irrigation - 1915 - 966 pages
...of 1 foot a second. To obtain the actual quantity of water it is necessary to multiply the number of secondfeet by the time. "Second-feet per square mile"...uniformly as regards both time and area. "Run-off (depth in inches on drainage area) " is the depth to which the drainage area would be covered if all...
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Annual Report, Volume 2; Volume 4

New York (State). Conservation Department - Natural resources - 1915 - 488 pages
...determinations. Other units may be computed from this by the use of factors given in the table of equivalents. " Second-feet per square mile " is the average number...assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as regards time and area. " Run-off depth in inches " is the depth to which the drainage area...
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Report of the Railroad Commission of Wisconsin to the Legislature on Water ...

Railroad Commission of Wisconsin - Water rights - 1915 - 580 pages
...others are computed by the use of the factors given in the tables of convenient equivalents (p. 214). "Second-feet per square mile" is the average number...assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as regards time and area. "Run-off (depth in inches)" is the depth to which the drainage area...
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