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depth, 16.5 feet, and storage capacity, 170,000,000 cubic feet. 

 The catchment area of the creek above the head of the feeder 

 is 52 square miles, and the catchment area above the reservoir 

 is 46.2 square miles. 



The storage of the Jamesville reservoir is at the rate of 3,680,000 

 cubic feet per square mile of catchment tributary to the reser- 

 voir. In order to make the entire yield of the area available, a 

 much larger storage capacity than this is required. 



Jordan level, which is also a summit level, extends from lock 

 No. 50 to lock No. 51 and is 14,903 miles in length. The follow- 

 ing feeders are tributary to this level : 



Cubic 

 ft. per 



second 



Otisco lake reservoir fed through Camillus feeder into the 



canal, 4 miles west of lock No. 50 8$ 



Ninemile creek (natural flow) also fed into canal through 



Camillus feeder 13 



Carpenter brook feeder 3 



Skaneateles feeder 1 146 



Total 248 



The following feeders deliver water into the Port Byron level, 

 which extends from lock No. 51 to No. 52, a distance of 7.79 miles: 



Cubic 

 ft per 

 second 



Putnam brook feeder at Weedsport 3 



Owasco feeder 69 



Total 72 



Oswego canal receives about 167 cubic feet per second from 

 the Erie canal at Syracuse. The balance of its water supply is 

 derived from the Seneca and Oneida rivers. The total amounts to 

 about 1233 cubic feet per second. Seneca and Cayuga canal 

 receives about 67 cubic feet per second from Erie canal at Mon- 



*See statement in regard to Skaneateles feeder on page 168, 



