Floods in New York, 1972, with special reference to tropical storm Agnes
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F. Luman Robison
Publications and source records attributed to F. Luman Robison.
Floods in New York, 1971
This report, for the calendar year 1971, was prepared at the request of the New York State Department of Transportation under provisions of an agreement between the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the U.S. Geological Survey fore a cooperative statewide program investigate the water resources of the State. The report was complied in the New York, Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, under the direction of Robert J. Dingman, District Chief. The information was obtained from newspaper clippings, publications of the National Weather Service, and the Environmental Data Service, and the Environmental Data Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ("Climatological Data" and "Storm Data"), and records of the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Low-flow study of streams in Albany County, New York
In 1967, the city of Albany and the U.S. Geological Survey began an enlarged cooperative program to evaluate the surface-water resources of the county. This interim report presents an analysis of the low-flow data that the program has obtained to 1970. As part of this program, personnel of the Geological Survey made two series of base-flow measurements or no-flow observations of many streams on August 19 and September 25, 1970. These measurements and the corresponding runoff values expressed as cubic feet per second per square mile of drainage area are listed in table 1. At many sites, where additional measurements had previously been made, an estimate of the frequency of occurrence of certain low flows has also been tabulated. In addition to discharge measurements, water samples for chemical analysis were collected on August 19.
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Floods in New York, magnitude and frequency
This report presents a practical means of predicting the probable magnitude of floods on streams in New York State. Because of the limited amount of data on small drainage basins this method is not applicable to sites where the drainage area is less than 10 square miles or to streams where flood peaks are affected materially by manmade regulation. Flood data based on records collected at gaging stations having 5 or more years of record not affected by unnatural regulation or diversion were used to define two types of curves. The first is a composite frequency curve. It expresses the relationship between the mean annual flood and floods of recurrence intervals ranging from 1.1 to 50 years. The second type defines the relation of the mean annual flood to the drainage area above the site. The result obtainable from the combination of the two curves is a flood-frequency curve for any site in the State, gaged or ungaged, within the range of drainage area and recurrence interval defined by the base data.
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