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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



The following data relative to flood-flows in this stream were 

 obtained for the United States Board of Engineers on Deep 

 Waterways : 



Location 



Catchment 

 area, square 

 miles 



Date 



Estimated .maximum 

 discharge 



Cubic feet per 

 second 



Cubic feet per 

 second per 

 square mile 





K a ) 



(8) 



(4) 



(5) 



16.2 

 16.5 

 47.5 

 61.4 

 61.5 

 61 . 5 

 68.8 

 187.0 

 387.0 

 533.0 

 104.3 





500 

 561 

 1.620 

 1,475 

 1.417 

 1,456 

 1.335 

 6, 170 

 5. 875 

 7,597 

 8,400 



30.9 

 34.0 

 34.1 

 24.1 

 23.0 

 23.5 

 21.9 

 32.7 

 15.2 

 14.2 

 80.5 



Williamstown 





West Camden 



Spring 1884. . . . 

 June, 1889 



Camden 



Camden 





Camden 





Camden 





McConnellsville 



1884 



Taberg station 



March 14. 1898. 

 March 15. 1898. 

 Fall. 1897 



Fish Creek 



Point Rocki 







l On east branch of Fish creek. 



Floods in Mad river. This stream is tributary to the west branch 

 of Fish creek at Camden. Maximum flood-flows from well-defined 

 high-water marks, as measured at this place, are 922 cubic feet 

 per second (catchment, 47 square miles), or at the rate of 20 cubic 

 feet per second per square mile. As measured at the gristmill 

 dam, just below the preceding, with one mile additional catchment 

 area, they are 1030 cubic feet per second, or at the rate of about 

 22 cubic feet per second per square mile. 



Floods in east branch of Fish creek. The catchment area of 

 this stream above Point Rock, where the gaging station is estab- 

 lished, is quite different from that of the west branch of Fish creek 

 above McConnellsville. The stream rises very rapidly and the 

 surface soil is such as to give large runoffs. The maximum flood 

 is reported as having occurred in the fall of 1897, with a total 

 runoff of 8400 cubic feet per second (catchment, 104 square miles) , 

 or 80.5 cubic feet per second per square mile. Ordinary floods, 

 as determined from high-water marks, are about 37 cubic feet per 

 second per square mile. 



