Studies of Water Storage for Flood Prevention and Power Development in New York State Under Public Ownership and Control |
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... Mills .... 156 11b . Hudson river reservoir , map of Hadley and Luzerne . 156 Plates 3c to 37c . Sacandaga reservoir , topographic sheets showing lands to be flowed 36 TABLES . Possible reservoirs , Hudson and Raquette watersheds .
... Mills .... 156 11b . Hudson river reservoir , map of Hadley and Luzerne . 156 Plates 3c to 37c . Sacandaga reservoir , topographic sheets showing lands to be flowed 36 TABLES . Possible reservoirs , Hudson and Raquette watersheds .
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... Mills , Benedict , North Broadalbin , Batchellerville , Day Center and Mayville , and about 4 miles of the Fonda , Johnstown & Gloversville railroad . In building this dam the treatment of the shore line will be such as to make it an ...
... Mills , Benedict , North Broadalbin , Batchellerville , Day Center and Mayville , and about 4 miles of the Fonda , Johnstown & Gloversville railroad . In building this dam the treatment of the shore line will be such as to make it an ...
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... Mills Sweet RIVER Lo ONION CORPORATION Ray Hubbell redley Lobdell Scott Partridge etal Race Track Association IMITS WASHINGTON Geo E Van Arnum WOLF ISLAND FJ & GRR CONGURATION Bell Grounds 740 Wm . Proper Note : Elevation above 7400 ...
... Mills Sweet RIVER Lo ONION CORPORATION Ray Hubbell redley Lobdell Scott Partridge etal Race Track Association IMITS WASHINGTON Geo E Van Arnum WOLF ISLAND FJ & GRR CONGURATION Bell Grounds 740 Wm . Proper Note : Elevation above 7400 ...
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... . 28000W . 46000 3 . Scale 1-400 24000 w 42000 5 TOVANS MILLS Emma T. Thyme Robert Goodemote A Mariam 14.000 W. James ROADALBI TO BROADALBIN SHEET 24 - C 10000W . 20000 W 16000W William Kegg 6000 W STATE WATER SUPPLY.
... . 28000W . 46000 3 . Scale 1-400 24000 w 42000 5 TOVANS MILLS Emma T. Thyme Robert Goodemote A Mariam 14.000 W. James ROADALBI TO BROADALBIN SHEET 24 - C 10000W . 20000 W 16000W William Kegg 6000 W STATE WATER SUPPLY.
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... mill site on the river during the two months of drought of the average year and would greatly increase the value of the undeveloped sites below Spier's Falls , which are said to have a fall of about 70 feet . The average 24 - hour 7 ...
... mill site on the river during the two months of drought of the average year and would greatly increase the value of the undeveloped sites below Spier's Falls , which are said to have a fall of about 70 feet . The average 24 - hour 7 ...
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Page 92 - 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 140 - 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 133 - 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 112 - 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 26 - ... 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 188 - In the final analysis, it now appears that the greatest good to the State at large and to the city of Rochester in particular, from storage reservoir construction, will be found in power development rather than in flood control, for the two purposes are to some extent antagonistic. The full reservoir is best for power. The empty reservoir is best for holding back a flood, but both purposes can be combined to some extent and to do this has been one object of the present study.
Page 135 - This station is located on the steel highway bridge over the east branch of the Sacandaga river in the southern part of the village of Wells, about 2} miles above the junction of the East and West branches.