Surface Water Supply of the United States 1907-8: Part VI. Missouri River Basin |
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Surface Water Supply of the United States 1907-8: Part VI. Missouri River Basin Robert Follansbee No preview available - 2016 |
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A. F. Huch Accu acre-feet applicable for ice April Area of Gage Arthur Dobson August Big Timber cicicicici cicicicici có có có Colo Creek near Augusta Daily discharge Daily gage height defined between gage Discharge in second-feet discharge measurements diverted drainage area DRAINAGE BASIN fairly well defined February feet flow gage datum Gage Dis gaging station highway bridge Hydrographer ice or obstructed-channel J. B. Pierson J. E. Stewart June June 13 Little Wind River located March Maximum method for shifting Milk River Minimum Missouri River Mont Month Monthly discharge mouth Musselshell River Nebr North Fork NOTE.-The above table November obstructed-channel conditions October period Popo Agie River Rating tables Raymond Richards reservoir Run-off total Sec.-ft Sept September shifting channels Shoshone River South Fork South Platte River Sq.ft square miles stream Sun River total in acre-feet valley W. B. Freeman wading Width
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Page 5 - 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...
Page 11 - 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...
Page 14 - 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.
Page 11 - 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 11 - 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...
Page 11 - CONVENIENT EQUIVALENTS. The following is a list of convenient equivalents for use in hydraulic computations: 1 second-foot equals 40 California miner's inches (law of Mar.
Page 201 - River is a prairie stream that receives the drainage from an area of about 1,000 square miles — 35 miles from north" to south and 30 miles from east to west — in the center- of Williams County, the northwestern county of North Dakota.
Page 7 - Inasmuch as the amount of water power that may be made available depends on the flow of rivers, the investigation of flow becomes a prerequisite in the judicious management of this source of energy. Drainage of swamp and overflowed lands. — More than 70,000,000 acres of the richest land in this country are now practically worthless or of precarious value by reason of overflow and swamp conditions. When this land is drained it becomes exceedingly productive and its value increases many fold. Such...
Page 18 - The single-point method consists in holding the meter either at the depth of the thread of mean velocity or at an arbitrary depth for which the coefficient for reducing to mean velocity has been determined or must be assumed.
Page 12 - ... gallons. 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. 1J horsepower equals about 1 kilowatt. To calculate water power quickly: - : — =net horsepower on water wheel realizing 80 per cent of theoretical power. EXPLANATION OF TABLES. For each...