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Show Study of Surface Waters of the Ohio River Basin Intensive study of the flow of some of the principal tributaries of Ohio River is being systematically earned forward by the United States, Gcol- . oglcal Survey. I In the Kanawha River basin alone which comprises 12,200 square miles, records for the year ending September Septem-ber 30, 1914, are given for 23 stations In a report recently published by the United States Geological Survey. Records Re-cords aro also given for 49 'other gaging gag-ing stations on tributaries of the Ohio. For some of tho larger streams deficiency tables are presented, showing show-ing tho number of days In each' year for several years on which the .mean dally flow of the stream was less than certain selected discharges given giv-en In the table. Tho tables show the characteristics ot the flow of the streams and are of great value In connection with tho study of possible possi-ble water power developments. Theso records aro given In Water Supply Paper 383, Surface Water Supply of the United States 1914, I'art III, Ohio Tllver Basin, by Albert II. Horton nnd Warren E. Hall. The report may bo had free of charge by applying to tho Director, United 8tatcs Geological Survey, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. , Tho records In this report and in similar reports Issued by tho Survoy sro essential In planning works for utilizing stream waters or for preventing pre-venting damago by floods. The need of preventing floods was brought forcibly for-cibly to the public attention by the disastrous flood In tho Ohio River basin during March and April, 1P13, which caused tho loss ot hundreds ot human lives nnd destroyed property valued at more than two hundred million dollars. The data needed for the solution or problems Involving tho flow of streams can not bo collected at a moment's mo-ment's notice. Investigations extending extend-ing over n period of years are essential essen-tial to determine the variations In the How of a strnnm from season to lenBon and from year to year and tho records contained In Water Supply Sup-ply Paper 3S3 and similar reports will becomo more valuablo as they nro supplemented by1 records to bo collected In tho future Tho report Is highly technical in character and has no Interest for the general reader, but will be useful to engineers and others interested in tho utilization of tho streams. |
