HYDROLOGY OF NEW YORK 



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Slur age .... 

 Growing . . . 

 Replenishing 



1837 

 10.70 

 7.91 

 9.63 



1838 

 10.19 



1839 



9.57 



10.20 



7.11 



1.67 



Total 



28.21 



27.20 



22.62 



In 1895 the total precipitation at Potsdam was 31.83 inches. 



At Poughkeepsie the total for the year 1895 was 31.53 inches. 



At Eochester there is a continuous record from 1834-1898, 

 inclusive. The mean precipitation for this whole period is 33.61 

 inches. For the period 1834-1840, inclusive, the total for each 

 water year is considerably under the mean, as follows : In 1834, 

 20.37 inches; 1835, 28.67 inches; 1836, 26.83 inches; 1837, 29.57 

 inches; 1838, 27.02 inches; 1839, 29.97 inches, and in 1840, 28.64 

 inches. In 1854 the total was 28.06 inches; in 1882, it was 

 26.74 inches; in 1885, 28.68 inches, and in 1887, only 20.61 inches. 

 In 1888 the total rose to 27.34 inches, but the precipitation of 

 the storage period was only 9.65 inches. It is probable that the 

 runoff of streams in 1888 in the vicinity of Rochester did not 

 exceed 3 to 4 inches. In 1895 the total at Rochester was 30.15 

 inches. 



At Rome the year of minimum precipitation for the period 

 1890-1898, inclusive, was 1895, in which year the total - of the 

 storage period was 13.57 inches, and the total for the year 31.30 

 inches. 



At Romulus the total for the storage period of 1895 was 10.87 

 inches, and the total for the year 27.76 inches. 



At Rutland the period 1854-1856, inclusive, covered the years 

 of lowest precipitation. The mean at that place from 1846-1861, 

 inclusive, is 36.51 inches, but the total for 1854 was only 29.50 

 inches ; for 1855,32.07 inches, and for 1856, 28.83 inches. In 1856 

 the runoff of streams in the vicinity of Rutland could not have 

 exceeded 5 inches. 



At Sacket Harbor the mean 1864-1898, with four years omitted, 

 is 32.50 inches. The period 1870-1876, inclusive, was far below 

 the mean, the totals being as follows: 1S70, 25.16 inches; 1871, 



