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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  where 
  it 
  is 
  feasible 
  to 
  develop 
  a 
  reservoir 
  with 
  capacity 
  of 
  

   7,000,000,000 
  cubic 
  feet. 
  The 
  object 
  of 
  this 
  reservoir 
  was 
  to 
  

   provide 
  storage 
  within 
  reasonable 
  distance 
  of 
  the 
  main 
  deep 
  

   waterway, 
  so 
  that 
  in 
  case 
  of 
  temporary 
  stoppage 
  of 
  the 
  main 
  

   feeder 
  to 
  the 
  north, 
  water 
  could 
  still 
  be 
  supplied 
  to 
  the 
  canal. 
  

   The 
  hight 
  of 
  the 
  main 
  dam 
  on 
  Salmon 
  river 
  was 
  about 
  56 
  feet. 
  

   In 
  addition 
  to 
  this 
  there 
  were 
  three 
  dykes, 
  cutting 
  off 
  lateral 
  

   valleys 
  at 
  different 
  points 
  of 
  the 
  reservoir. 
  

  

  On 
  Black 
  river 
  also 
  a 
  reservoir 
  was 
  surveyed 
  for 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  

   Engineers 
  on 
  Deep 
  Waterways 
  for 
  a 
  main 
  water 
  supply 
  for 
  the 
  

   proposed 
  canal. 
  When 
  constructed 
  this 
  reservoir 
  will 
  be 
  the 
  

   largest 
  in 
  the 
  State. 
  The 
  water 
  surface 
  at 
  Carthage 
  will 
  be 
  

   raised 
  48.5 
  feet 
  and 
  an 
  area 
  flooded 
  at 
  extreme 
  high 
  water 
  of 
  

   nearly 
  78 
  square 
  miles, 
  or 
  roundly 
  50,000 
  acres. 
  The 
  cubic 
  con- 
  

   tent 
  of 
  the 
  reservoir 
  at 
  high 
  water 
  will 
  be 
  nearly 
  70,000,000,000 
  

   cubic 
  feet, 
  and 
  at 
  spillway 
  crest 
  over 
  57,000,000,000 
  cubic 
  feet. 
  

   The 
  area 
  flooded 
  at 
  spillway 
  crest 
  will 
  be 
  73.2 
  square 
  miles 
  and 
  

   13.6 
  inches 
  stored 
  on 
  the 
  tributary 
  catchment 
  of 
  1812 
  square 
  

   miles. 
  

  

  Extended 
  studies 
  were 
  also 
  made 
  in 
  1895-96 
  of 
  the 
  possibility 
  

   of 
  water 
  storage 
  on 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river, 
  where 
  the 
  waterpower 
  has 
  

   increased 
  from 
  less 
  than 
  13,000 
  horsepower 
  in 
  1882 
  to 
  something 
  

   like 
  50,000 
  horsepower 
  at 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  1898 
  and 
  to 
  about 
  

   80,000 
  horsepower 
  in 
  1904. 
  The 
  Legislature 
  failed 
  to 
  make 
  an 
  

   appropriation 
  in 
  1897 
  and 
  these 
  studies 
  have 
  never 
  been 
  com- 
  

   pleted, 
  although 
  considerable 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  information 
  has 
  

   been 
  made 
  since 
  that 
  time. 
  The 
  studies 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  carried 
  show 
  

   that 
  it 
  is 
  possible 
  to 
  create 
  on 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river 
  a 
  continuous 
  per- 
  

   manent 
  power 
  of 
  about 
  175,000 
  horsepower, 
  and 
  undoubtedly 
  

   when 
  the 
  studies 
  are 
  completed 
  it 
  will 
  appear 
  that 
  considerably 
  

   more 
  than 
  this 
  can 
  be 
  developed 
  at 
  a 
  cost 
  which 
  will 
  be 
  com- 
  

   mercially 
  feasible. 
  Probably 
  at 
  least 
  210,000 
  horsepower 
  can 
  

   be 
  commercially 
  developed. 
  

  

  In 
  1900, 
  in 
  a 
  report 
  to 
  the 
  Merchants' 
  Association 
  of 
  New 
  

   York, 
  a 
  large 
  reservoir 
  on 
  Schroon 
  river, 
  with 
  capacity 
  of 
  21,662,- 
  

   000,000 
  cubic 
  feet, 
  was 
  proposed. 
  This 
  reservoir 
  had 
  been 
  form- 
  

   erly 
  proposed 
  as 
  the 
  Tumblehead 
  reservoir 
  of 
  the 
  Hudson 
  sys- 
  

   tem, 
  but 
  the 
  original 
  proposition 
  was 
  to 
  make 
  it 
  of 
  a 
  storage 
  

   capacity 
  of 
  16,246,000,000 
  cubic 
  feet. 
  

  

  