WSP06074

• File Number: 8407.600
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Kansas General Publications
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 4/1/1962
• Author: Kansas Water Resourc
• Title: Kansas Streamflow Characteristics - Part 4 - Storage Requirements to Sustain Gross Reservoir Outflow - Technical Report Number 4
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Figure 5.- - Storage - required frequency curve for a 2 - percent chance af deficiency in outflow ( No. 66 )

Delaware River at Valley Falls, Kans. (To'ol dralnogo oroo, 922 oq mil

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