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STREAM MEASUREMENT AND
WATER POWER.
One of the departments of the work
of the United States Geological Survey
which has a particularly practical bear
ing on manufacturing and other busi
ness interests is the accurate measure
ment of flow of the country's streams.
Its utility lies in the fact that it reduces
to a matter of actual knowledge the
amount of water passing through them
at all seasons of the year , which impor
tant factor has probably been the sub
ject of more guess work than any other
one thing in this branch of engineering.
More especially is this true of the low
I
water stages on which really depend
the effective worth of the streams , so
that many mills and factories which
have been built in expectation of being
operated entirely by water power , have
had to be furnished with auxiliary
steam power to help out in times of a
deficient and unexpectedly low water
supply. Perhaps this is the chief reas
on , this general distrust of the reliabil
ity of the estimates of flow , that the
really magnificent power possibilities of
many streams , both in the eastern and
western mountain sections of the coun
try , have not been more fully developed.
The trouble has not been that the
streams cannot be relied upon to fur
nish power , but that the power which
can reasouebly be expected of them has
been over estimated. The accurate
gaging of streams requires much time
and skilled knowledge. It iilvolves
daily observation of their rise and fall ,
extending over a number of years , fre
quent measurements of their flow by
delicate instruments , and careful ob
servations of diversions by dams or
power plants already in operation.
When applied to the whole country this
work becomes of such wide scope as to
bo beyond the efforts of any but the
general Government , and , as a matter
of fact , few of the states , to say nothing
of individuals , have made any system
atic effort to undertake it. The Survey
has taken up and developed this work
because it needed to be done and no one
was doing it , and now has a large num
ber of stations scattered among many
of the important rivers of the country.
On these rivers information is being
collected which will be absolutely ne
cessary to further developments of their
power. Since the improvement in the
transmission of electricity to long dis
tances , water power streams have as
sumed a new value and will be more
and more sought as means of cheap
power. This gives to the work of the
Survey in its river gagings and meas
urements an even greater importance
and necessity as furnishing indispens
able information which can be obtained
from no-other source.
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