1886. 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890. 1891. 1892. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. TABLE No. 8.-Yield of the Sudbury Watershed in Gallons per Day per Square Mile1 from 1875 to 1907- Continued. 720,000 1,009,000 1,632,000 880,000 1,366,000 1,461,000 2,589,000 1,053,000 2,782,000 1,254,000 3,018,000 1,870,000 434,000 693,000 1,034,000 1,084,000 583,000 June, 203,000 413,000 421,000 653,000 568,000 413,000 July, 116,000 115,000 117,000 634,000 107,000 149,000 673,000 369,000 2,758,000 1,941,000 1,215,000 305,000 697,000 319,000 871,000 2,125,000 1,640,000 2,515,000 1,494,000 MONTH. 1 The area of the Sudbury watershed used in making up these records included water surfaces amounting to 1.9 per cent. of the whole area from 1875 to 1878, inclusive, and subsequently increased by the construction of storage reservoirs to 3.0 per cent. in 1879, 3.4 per cent. in 1885, 3.9 per cent. in 1894 and 6.5 per cent. in 1898. The watershed also contains extensive areas of swampy land, which, though covered with water at times, are not included in the above percentages of water surfaces. TABLE NO. 8.-Yield of the Sudbury Watershed in Gallons per Day per Square Mile1 from 1875 to 1907--Concluded. MONTH. 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 1906. 1907. Mean for 306,000 182,000 369,000 94,000 65,000 424,000 845,000 1,638,000 2,288,000 794,000 437,000 1,763,000 1,736,000 477,000 1,410,000 1,128,000 1,351,000 1,224,000 1,753,000 2,914,000 1 The area of the Sudbury watershed used in making up these records included water surfaces amounting to 1.9 per cent. of the whole area from 1875 to 1878, TABLE NO. 9.—Wachusett System. — Statistics of Flow of Water, Storage and Rainfall in 1907. [Watershed above gaging station 119.00 square miles.] MONTH. 1 Aggregate storage in Wachusett Reservoir and in ponds and mill reservoirs. Average for year, TABLE NO. 10.—Sudbury System. — Statistics of Flow of Water, Storage and Rainfall in 1907. [Watershed from 1875 to 1878 inclusive 77.764 square miles; in 1879 and 1880=78.238 square miles; and from 1881 to 1907 inclusive=75.2 square miles.] Quantity of Quantity of Water dis TABLE NO. 11.-Cochituate System. - Statistics of Flow of Water, Storage and Rainfall in 1907. Quantity of received from [Watershed of lake = 18.87 square miles.1] Quantity of Water discharged through Cochituate Aqueduct (Gallons per Day). shed by Sewers, etc. |