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7) While we can not wholly ignore the fact that the State has 

 had in contemplation the erection of the reservoirs and may yet 

 complete them and the water be restored, we can only take these 

 things into account in a qualified and limited sense. 



With the foregoing principles in view, the Board of Appraisers 

 handed down their decisions on each individual claim, the aggre- 

 gate being, as already stated, $91,108. 



Later on the State made additional appropriations, finally 

 carrying out an extensive reservoir system on Black river. The 

 reservoirs constructed to date, with their available capacities, are 

 as follows : 



Name of reservoir 



Mean area, 



Mean depth, 



Available 

 capacity, 



acres 



feet 



cubic feet 



White lake 



296 



5.0 



64,000,000 



Chub lake 



200 



4.0 



35,000,000 





306 



15.0 



200,000,000 



Woodhull lake 



1,118 



18.0 



438,000,000 



Bisbv lakes 1 





3.5 



40,000,000 



Canachagala lake 



320 



4.0 



56,000,000 





277 



28.0 



676,000,000 





372 



26.0 



350,000,000 



Twin lakes 



175 



8.0 



60,000,000 



Fulton chain lakes 







800,000,000 



Stillwater 2 



3,200 



6.0 



850,000,000 





700 



7.0 



213,000,000 



Total 





3 



,782,000,000 









The foregoing total of 3,782,000,000 cubic feet storage is suffi- 

 cient to furnish a mean flow from the storage alone of about 220 

 cubic feet per second for 200 days. 



Notwithstanding the liberal reservoir capacity on Black river, 

 the mill owners have complained from year to year that they 

 suffer from shortage of water on account of the diversion for 

 Black river and Erie canals, and an investigation in 1888 having 

 shown that the mill owners' claim that the water was improperly 

 used by lumbermen was well founded, the legislature, by chapter 



iThis reservoir has been abandoned. 

 2This reservoir is rebuilding in 1902-3-4. 



