Studies of Water Storage for Flood Prevention and Power Development in New York State Under Public Ownership and Control |
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acres Adirondack average borings bridge buildings Caneadea cent channel clay computed concrete Conklingville Consulting Engineer cubic yards Depletion drainage area drought dryest Edward elevation estimated feet per second flash boards flood flow line forest Fort Edward Freeman Gage height Genesee Falls GENESEE RIVER Glens Falls Hadley horse power Hudson river inches depth Inches run Indian Lake isohyetal land low water maps mass curve maximum Mechanicville mill million cubic feet months Northville penstock Pierson PLATE Pond Portage reservoir Portageville power development power-house present probably proposed dam Rafter rainfall records Rochester rock flour Sacandaga reservoir SACANDAGA RIVER Sample sand Schroon Schroon River Sept sluice gates spillway square miles storage reservoir stream surface total cost Total number tributaries tunnel turbine upper Hudson upstream village water power WATER SUPPLY COMMISSION Water Supply Paper watershed yield York
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Page 84 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. Tlioy shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Page 245 - The sum of ten thousand dollars shall, after the present year, be annually paid by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller, to the...
Page 136 - Both banks are high and not subject to overflow. The bed of the stream is composed of sand. There is but one channel at all stages. Discharge measurements are made from the upstream side of a single-span highway bridge.
Page 125 - There is but one channel at all stages. Discharge measurements are made from the down-stream side of the bridge, which has a single span of 395 feet.
Page 135 - This station is located at the Delaware and Hudson railroad bridge leading from Thurman to Warrensburg, about 950 feet below the highway bridge to Warrensburg and some 2,000 feet below the entrance of Schroon river into the Hudson. It was established, in cooperation with the...
Page 58 - Commission is authorized and directed to devise plans for the progressive development of the water powers of the State under State ownership, control and maintenance for the public use and benefit and for the increase of the public revenue.
Page 108 - There are 62 water-wheels in the adjoining mill. These are nearly all of modern types which have been tested at the Holyoke flume. A record is kept of the daily run of each in hours, as well as of the working head, which is usually 18 feet.
Page 28 - ... denser and the demand for their use increases. We have only to look across our northern border to the Dominion of Canada to see how our mistakes in allowing private interests to acquire natural resources have been avoided by the statesmanship of the Dominion government.
Page 134 - ... rocky and of gravel and permanent, but rather rough. There are two channels at all stages. The current is good at all stages, ranging from about one to five feet per second. Discharge .measurements are made from the upstream side of the bridge in the left span, and from the downstream side in the right span, the initial point for soundings being vertically over the left abutment, on the upstream side. A standard chain gage read twice each day by Gilbert Dean is attached to the floor of the bridge...
Page 17 - ... existing plants. (e) It will provide a satisfactory annual income to the State. Each of these points is in itself worthy of the careful investigation which the Legislature has directed to be made. Controllable power is the vital force in our industrial development and one of the chief elements upon which civilization is based. Manufactories, transportation, and artificial light are largely dependent upon it. The more complex our civilization, the more intricate our manufacturing enterprises,...