Advance Report on the Sedimentation Survey of Black Canyon Reservoir, Emmett, Idaho: May 21 to August 13, 1936U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1937 - Black Canyon Dam (Idaho) - 40 pages |
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210 square miles abutment sections acres alluvium amount of sediment average porosity banks basin Black Canyon Reservoir bottom-set beds Bureau of Reclamation consists Creek and Payette crest level crest stage cubic date of survey DEADWOOD RESERVOIR drainage area drainage basin Emmett erosion feet below crest flooded meander plain fork of Payette Garden Valley granite gravel grazing Grimes Pass head of backwater Idaho Batholith inflow irrigation lava Long Valley miles of drainage mouth of Squaw original and present original capacity Payette delta Payette Lakes Payette National Forest Payette River arm Payette River delta Payette River watershed Payette watershed penstocks percent Pleistocene pumping reservoir sediments Residual soils river channel rock Sedimentation Studies Soil Conservation Service soil creep south fork Spillway Crest Squaw Creek arm Squaw Creek delta Squaw Creek project Squaw Creek Valley Squaw Creek watershed steeper storage capacity tons topography tributary upstream watershed of Black width wing dams