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Floods in Schoharie creek. The flow of this stream at Fort 

 Hunter in 1892 was 41,715 cubic feet per second (catchment 947 

 square miles) , or at the rate of 44 cubic feet per second per square 

 mile. 



Fig. 36 Cross-section of dam of Empire State Pow er Company at Scho- 

 harie falls. 



In 1899 and 1900 the Empire State Power Company erected a dam 

 and power plant on Schoharie creek at Schoharie falls, seven miles 

 from the city of Amsterdam. The crest of this dam >vas originally 

 380 feet in length. During a flood on March 21, 1901, the water 

 attained a depth on the crest of 11.2 feet. The calculated dis- 

 charge was 49.G00 cubic feet per second (catchment, 930 square 

 miles) , or at the rate of 53 cubic feet per second per square mile. 



