WSP12225

• File Number: 8407
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/8/1940
• Author: John R Erickson
• Title: North Platte River - Extension of Stream Flow Records - Northgate to Pathfinder
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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WATER SUPPLY OF NORTHPLA.Tl'E RIVER
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NORTHGATE, OOUllWJ()
(Co10rado-Wyulld,ng Sta'l;E1 :Line)

Strelml gaging reoords 'Were published for the NQrthgate station
for- 1904 and 191; ':' September- 1929. only fur the lIIantlul of May, June,
JI11y,' A!1gust. September ll.lld Ootober with part1al rllllOJ'de for April and .l'
. Nov8lIIber" with the exoeption oftlul.l92' and 1927water"'Yell.ra wMU .(
full lllOnthly suinm~y reooN was published (the winter lllOnths be1ng est1l11B.t&d
and no daily que.ntltlell published). From Ootober 1929 - September 19,2 a

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oomp1ete monthly sUlllIn.9.1"y reoord was published. but here again no daily
quantit1ell wer-e publ1shed for tM winter,lllOnths. Sinee Ootobe.. 19.'52 a
full record 1s available from wh10h daily quant1t1es are obtainable. In
thue later reoorde winter rnonthls e.re otten oomputed on block e8timntes
. of a week or two a'll a t111l8. 10.. these per-lOde the daily values are oon-
aider-ed to be 1Ulltorm trom day to day" or in other wor-ds the mean for the
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88t:l._ted' per:l.od 11; taken as the daily value for- 11.11 daYIl dul'lng that
period.

In U.S.G.S. WlI.ter ~pp1y Paper No. 469. "Surfaoe Watere ot Wyom-

:l.ng and Their Utl1baUon." by Robart Follansbee" the record fur Northgate

WaS extended on III monthly basis 80 as to ba oomplete from June 1915 thru

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September- l~l. 'SoIll8 of the partial reoordtl originally published in Water
'Supply Pa~rIl were revised in No. 469.
In the, Nebraska Exhibit *3. R. I. Meeker used the values Il.8 pub-
Hshed.in W.S.P. #469. Then trom OCtober 1921 - Septemb,sr 1935 IIlllde his

own estimates tor all months of millll1ng reoor-d. Estimntee fur the water-

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