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or two may make it clearer. Wolf creek, already referred to, is 

 perha])s one of the most misused streams encountered, and about 

 which considerable interest centered because of its entry into that 

 section of the Genesee which is to be impounded by the proposed 

 dam at Mount Morris. A])art from its use as a carrj^-off for waste 

 salt from refineries near its source, which made it at the time 

 of investig-ation virtually a 4 per cent salt solution before dilution 

 by any of its several tributaries, this stream receives a further 

 dosat»e of sewag-e from the town of Castile, two and one-half to 

 three miles from its confluence with the Genesee. In spite of this 

 gTOSs contamination which is evident to even the casual observer 

 by virtue of the characteristic yellow foam visible in eddies and 

 in the river about the creek's mouth, the descent to the river is 

 over a bed so steep and rocky that the stream is one continuous 

 riffle, heavily festooned with a dense grow^th of salt water vege- 

 tation, and under these conditions could scarcely be other than as 

 found, supersaturated with oxygen. (App. Ill, Table III.) 



In contrast to this we have the outlet from Conesus lake whicli 

 receives at Lakeville the effluent from a large milk condensary. 

 Approximately one and one-half miles below there is a dam whicli 



Fig. 7. — Dissolved gases, Conesus Lake Outlet, Aug. 7, 1926. 



