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the point where the stream enters the barge canal, about nine miles 

 below the entrance of pollution, the dissolved oxygen had recovered 

 only to the extent of sixty-six per cent of saturation, though the 

 creek's volume had been augmented by such sizable streams as 

 Canada and Stony creeks. Fig. 3 represents an attempt to portray 



Fig. 3 



PROFILE SHOWING EFFECT OF ROME SEWAGE 

 UPON WOOD GREEK 



Distance in Miles 



the situation graphically. The broken line bridges that section 

 between the two solid parts and represents the probable change 

 through that part of the stream where no samples were taken. 

 This creek flows through a relatively level section of country east 

 of Oneida lake, and has not the opportunity for aeration afforded 

 by the rapid and tumultuous flow of many streams farther west, 



