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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  developed 
  powers 
  on 
  the 
  Ausable. 
  The 
  merchantable 
  timber 
  has 
  

   mostly 
  been 
  cut, 
  and 
  the 
  original 
  dams 
  nsed 
  by 
  the 
  lumbermen 
  for 
  

   floating 
  logs 
  have 
  decayed. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  large 
  undeveloped 
  water 
  

   power 
  at 
  Wilmington 
  notch, 
  where 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  fall 
  of 
  100 
  feet. 
  

   There, 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  fall 
  of 
  100 
  feet 
  at 
  High 
  Falls. 
  From 
  the 
  upper 
  end 
  

   of 
  Wilmington 
  notch 
  to 
  two 
  miles 
  above 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  Wilmington 
  

   there 
  is 
  a 
  fall 
  of 
  600 
  feet 
  in 
  a 
  distance 
  of 
  four 
  miles. 
  This 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  stream 
  is 
  as 
  yet 
  entirely 
  undeveloped. 
  These 
  water 
  powers 
  

   are 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  Ausable 
  which 
  heads 
  in 
  Lake 
  Placid. 
  

  

  Bouquet 
  river. 
  The 
  Bouquet 
  river 
  rises 
  in 
  the 
  eastern 
  part 
  of 
  

   Essex, 
  county 
  and 
  flows 
  northerly 
  to 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  Willsboro 
  and 
  

   thence 
  southeasterly 
  for 
  two 
  miles, 
  when 
  it 
  enters 
  Lake 
  Cham- 
  

   plain. 
  

  

  Outlet 
  of 
  Lake 
  George. 
  The 
  most 
  southerly 
  tributary 
  of 
  Lake 
  

   Champlain 
  of 
  any 
  great 
  importance 
  for 
  water 
  purposes 
  is 
  the 
  

   outlet 
  of 
  Lake 
  George, 
  which 
  in 
  about 
  2 
  miles 
  has 
  a 
  fall 
  of 
  222 
  

   feet. 
  The 
  greater 
  portion 
  of 
  this 
  is 
  concentrated 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  mile 
  

   from 
  the 
  lake. 
  The 
  elevation 
  of 
  Lake 
  George 
  above 
  tidewater 
  is 
  

   323 
  feet. 
  The 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  lake 
  surface 
  is 
  43 
  square 
  miles, 
  and 
  the 
  

   tributary 
  catchment 
  area 
  about 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  the. 
  lake 
  is 
  229 
  square 
  

   miles. 
  

  

  The 
  streams 
  in 
  eastern 
  New 
  York 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  depended 
  on 
  to 
  

   furnish 
  a 
  natural 
  flow 
  of 
  more 
  than 
  about 
  0.2 
  cubic 
  foot 
  per 
  sec- 
  

   ond 
  per 
  square 
  mile 
  as 
  a 
  minimum 
  in 
  a 
  dry 
  year. 
  On 
  account 
  of 
  

   the 
  large 
  water 
  surface 
  of 
  Lake 
  George 
  in 
  proportion 
  to 
  the 
  catch- 
  

   ment 
  area, 
  it 
  is 
  possible, 
  by 
  utilizing 
  the 
  storage 
  on 
  the 
  lake 
  sur- 
  

   face, 
  to 
  realize 
  in 
  an 
  average 
  year 
  a 
  much 
  larger 
  quantity. 
  From 
  

   0.7 
  to 
  0.8 
  cubic 
  foot 
  per 
  second 
  per 
  square 
  mile 
  may 
  be 
  assumed 
  as 
  

   a 
  conservative 
  estimate, 
  the 
  results 
  being 
  based 
  on 
  allowing 
  the 
  

   water 
  to 
  flow 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  lake 
  24 
  hours 
  per 
  day 
  for 
  only 
  310 
  days 
  in 
  

   the 
  year. 
  On 
  this 
  basis 
  we 
  may 
  assume 
  a 
  mean 
  flow 
  for 
  minimum 
  

   dry 
  years 
  of 
  about 
  200 
  cubic 
  feet 
  per 
  second. 
  Since 
  the 
  entire 
  

   222-foot 
  fall 
  of 
  the 
  Lake 
  George 
  outlet 
  is 
  now 
  utilized, 
  we 
  may 
  

   place 
  the 
  permanent 
  power 
  in 
  a 
  dry 
  year 
  at 
  about 
  5000 
  gross 
  

  

  