Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Canals of New York1859 accompanied by volume of maps with title: Engravings of plans, profiles and maps, illustrating the standard models, from which are built the important structures on the New York State canals. |
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A. E. Place ALBANY aluminum tablet marked April May June August Back azimuth bronze tablet marked C. C. Covert Chenango River church coping stone copper bolt marked County Creek datum Delaware Depth in inches drainage basin DUNKIRK E. C. Murphy E. P. Roundey Estimated Monthly Discharge F. H. Tillinghast February feet east feet north feet south feet west foundation wall Gauge height gauging station H. H. Halsey Hemlock Lake January June July Aug large bowlder Lehigh Valley Railroad Mean Daily Discharge mile east mile south miles north Mohawk River N. Y. DAY northeast northwest corner November October Oswego precise level quadrangles Ramapo River Rochester RUN-OFF Saranac River Sept September sheets southeast corner southwest square miles Station mark stream Stream Gaugings Susquehanna River tablet marked ALBANY Topographic map tributary W. W. Schlecht water table weir West Canada Creek west side York
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Page 70 - Franklin county and flows northeastward to a point near Cadyville and thence eastward into Lake Champlain at Plattsburg. The southern boundary of the basin is the Ampersand mountain range and the stream drains the north slope of the most elevated region of the state of New York. About 16.2 per cent of the upper drainage area is watersurface.
Page 170 - In estimating the run-off of Chenango river, the area directly tributary to storage reservoirs, from which diversion is made to supply Erie canal, has been deducted from the total natural drainage area.
Page 82 - Hinckley reservoir, being Honnedaga lake, 1.4 square miles in extent. There is also a small amount of controllable storage in reservoirs formed by three dams. Swamps and marshes are numerous in the region of the headwaters, usually adjoining lakes and tributaries and having an extent of one-half square mile or less each.
Page 30 - Cazenovia lake is located 10 miles below Erieville reservoir, which is at the head of the stream at elevation 1,190. From its outlet to the foot of the plateau at Erie canal crossing, the stream descends 770 feet, the distance, following the general trend of the valley, being 11 miles. At Chittenango falls there occurs a precipitous descent of about 100 feet. CHITTENANGO CREEK AT CHITTENANGO This station, established May 22, 1901, is located at the Main street bridge over Chittenango creek at Chittenango.
Page 36 - The drainage basin within a radius of ten miles to the south and west is relatively flat, with numerous swampy tracts. The lake receives, through Chittenango and Oneida creeks, -drainage from an extensive area of the central New York plateau and, through Wood and Fish creeks on the east, drainage from a portion of the west slope of the plateau bordering the Adirondack mountains. On the north the drainage area is less extensive and the inflowing streams are small.
Page 108 - Jan. Feb. Mar. April. May. June. July. Ang. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Page 222 - ... do this would have necessitated the running of thousands of miles of precise levels in order to connect with sea level the initial points within the various areas under topographic survey, and this would have cost immense sums and occupied several years, during which the topographic surveys would have continued without being accompanied by spirit leveling and the establishment of the bench marks required. The act was therefore so framed as to permit of the acceptance of some point within each...
Page 311 - Bench marks left at termination of work at night, or for rain or other cause, should be practically turning-points in a continuous line. They should consist of large wooden pegs driven below the surface of the ground, with a copper nail firmly embedded in the top. One of these pegs is to be used as the final turning-point for each rodman.
Page 293 - Quadrangles. The elevations in the following list are based upon an aluminum tablet at the southeast corner of the Jefferson County Court House at Steubenville, Ohio, marked "716 STEUBENVILLE. ' ' The elevation of this is accepted as 714.729 feet above mean sea level and was determined from the Army Engineers bench mark "67 A...
Page 218 - A sandstone post 48 by 12 by 12 inches, set about 40 inches in the ground, in the center of top of which is cemented a bronze meridian tablet.