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~ • • 9 <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br />t <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />t <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />$t t mm~ ry <br />As noted earlier it is difficult to drax conclusions from a <br />broken record of streamflox data. Hoxever, general comments can <br />be made about the streamflox reported here. <br />Rapid and Cottonwood Creeks are located in areas xith high <br />relief xhere runoff from precipitation and snoxmelt can cause rapid <br />and large increases in streamflox values, Likewise, rapid recession <br />of streamflox occurs after precipitation events. <br />~dhen no irrigation diversions or xater company activities modify <br />the streamflox the folloxing comments describe flox in Rapid and <br />Cottonwood Creeks. At the beginning of the xater year on October 1 ~ <br />~ N ~yJ - -~~ 1rt..2rM <br />t:.e streams are in a period of lox base flow, This use f1o~Y con- <br />tinues, interrupted only by precipitation events until thawing <br />begins, As the weather begins to warm In the Spring snoxmelt occurs <br />and diurnal fluctuations become pronounced. ,Kean daily flows in- <br />crease until snoxmelt ends, generally in June. Flows slowly de- <br />crease until base flow is again reached, probably in August or Sep- <br />tember in a normal year. <br />lJ <br />