Geological Survey Water-supply Paper, Issue 2038U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - Floods |
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19th century alewife annual aqueducts average barges berm boats Canal Commissioners canal was built Chenango Canal Commissioners of 1811 construction cost cross section culverts dams deforestation ditch drainage effects elevation engineering enlarged environmental Erie Canal erosion estimate excavation feeders feet wide fish flood forest gauge Genesee River Hudson River hydraulic capacity hydraulic drag hydrologic inches per day Jervis Jour Lake Erie Lake Ontario land leakage lockage Lockport locks loss low flows Madison Brook measurements ments million cubic feet Mohawk River operations original canal Oriskany Creek Oswego Canal Otisco Lake outlet percent pound problem quantities of water Rafter rainfall reach record reservoir revenues Rochester Rome summit route runoff Schenectady sea lamprey season sediment sess slope sluice Stream Crossings streamflow summit level surface tion Tonawanda Creek towpath traffic transport valley velocity water required water supply Welland Canal western division width York