﻿HYDROLOGY 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
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  Manufacturing 
  Company, 
  has 
  increased 
  greatly 
  in 
  capacity. 
  The 
  

   laws 
  of 
  1886, 
  and 
  amendments 
  thereto, 
  have 
  also 
  authorized 
  the 
  

   taking 
  from 
  Niagara 
  river 
  of 
  large 
  quantities 
  of 
  water 
  for 
  the 
  

   purpose 
  of 
  creating 
  a 
  water 
  power 
  near 
  the 
  city 
  of 
  Lockport. 
  A 
  

   ship 
  canal 
  is 
  projected 
  connecting 
  Lakes 
  Erie 
  and 
  Ontario, 
  and 
  

   the 
  Canadian 
  government 
  has 
  made 
  a 
  concession 
  for 
  extensive 
  

   power 
  developments 
  on 
  the 
  Canadian 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  river, 
  which 
  are 
  

   in 
  progress 
  in 
  1904. 
  Hence 
  it 
  is 
  evident 
  that 
  the 
  future 
  demands 
  

   for 
  water 
  to 
  be 
  taken 
  from 
  Niagara 
  river 
  and 
  delivered 
  either 
  into 
  

   the 
  lower 
  river 
  below 
  the 
  falls 
  or 
  into 
  Lake 
  Ontario 
  independent 
  

   of 
  the 
  river 
  are 
  very 
  large, 
  and 
  the 
  interest 
  which 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  the 
  

   State 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  have 
  in 
  the 
  runoff 
  of 
  Niagara 
  river 
  becomes 
  

   exceedingly 
  important. 
  

  

  A 
  recent 
  determination 
  of 
  the 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  basin 
  drained 
  by 
  

   the 
  Great 
  Lakes 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  water 
  surfaces 
  of 
  the 
  lakes 
  themselves 
  

   is 
  that 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Deep 
  Waterways 
  

   Commission, 
  from 
  which 
  the 
  following 
  general 
  summary 
  is 
  taken. 
  

   This 
  determination 
  was 
  made 
  in 
  1896. 
  In 
  1898 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  

   Engineers 
  on 
  Deep 
  Waterways 
  redetermined 
  these 
  areas 
  but 
  with- 
  

   out 
  changing 
  any 
  except 
  that 
  of 
  Lake 
  Erie, 
  which 
  was 
  taken 
  at 
  

   9932 
  square 
  miles. 
  

  

  Area 
  of 
  Area 
  of 
  Total 
  area 
  

  

  water 
  surface, 
  catchment, 
  of 
  basin, 
  

   Lake 
  square 
  miles 
  square 
  miles 
  square 
  miles 
  

  

  Superior 
  31,800 
  48,600 
  80,400 
  

  

  Michigan 
  22,400 
  45,700 
  68,100 
  

  

  Huron 
  23,200 
  52,100 
  75,300 
  

  

  St 
  Clair 
  495 
  6,320 
  6,815 
  

  

  Erie 
  10,000 
  24,480 
  34,480 
  

  

  Total 
  87,895 
  177,200 
  265,095 
  

  

  That 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  catchment 
  area 
  of 
  Lake 
  Erie 
  lying 
  within 
  

   the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  is 
  given 
  as 
  2210 
  square 
  miles. 
  The 
  area 
  of 
  

   islands 
  in 
  Niagara 
  river 
  is 
  given 
  as 
  29 
  square 
  miles. 
  That 
  portion 
  

   of 
  the 
  catchment 
  area 
  of 
  Niagara 
  river 
  lying 
  within 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  

  

  