FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



389 



The following are the reservoirs which have been constructed by the State in order 

 to make srood this diversion: 





APPROXIMATE 



APPROXIMATE 



APPROXIMATE AND 



name; of reservoir 



AREA. 



MEAN DEPTH. 



AVAILABLE CAPACITY. 





IN ACRES 



IN FEET 



IN CUBIC FEET 



White Lake, . . . . . . • 



296 



5 



64,000,000 



Chub Lake, 













200 



4 



35,000,000 



Sand Lake, . ' . 













306 



15 



200,000,000 



Woodhull Lake, . 













I,Il8 



18 



438,000,000 



Bisbys Lakes, 















3-5 



40,000,000 



Canachagala Lake, 













320 



4 



56,000,000 



North Lake, 







. 







277 



28 



676,000,000 



South Lake, . , 













37 2 



26 



350,000,000 



Twin Lakes, 













!75 



8 



60,000,000 



Fulton Chain Lakes, 

















800,000,000 



Forestport, . 













700 



10 



300,000,000 



Stillwater, 













i, 6 75 



9 



6.58,000,000 



Total, . 



3,677,000,000 



In addition to the foregoing, opportunities for storage systems exist on West and 

 East Canada creeks, tributaries of Mohawk, and on all the streams of Adirondack 

 water center tributary to St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain. These latter, 

 however, have never been systematically worked up and little can be said of them in 

 detail. An available site is also found on Salmon River in Oswego county, as well 

 as in the broad valley of lower Black River above Carthage where there is an elegant 

 site permitting of developing the full capacity of the stream to the extent of perhaps 

 40,000,000,000 to 50,000,000,000 cubic feet. The Delaware, Susquehanna and 

 Allegany Rivers and other streams of the southern tier do not generally permit of 

 developing large storage systems, although undoubtedly detailed study would lead to 

 the discovery of a few available sites, which would probably be more expensive per 

 unit of storage than on the streams to the north. 



THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS. 



The necessary conditions for applying the principles of storage to mill streams are 

 (1), the existence of either broad, nearly level valleys with narrow throats at the lower 

 ends, or of natural ponds and lakes of considerable area with such throats; (2), these 

 broad, level valleys, ponds and lakes must have enough tributary catchment area above 

 them to insure the inflow of large volumes of water to be stored; and (3), the narrow 



