Report Title: Hydrologic and physical data for Sandstone Creek
watershed in western Oklahoma
Report Number: Oklahoma Water Resources Board Bulletin 17
Author: C.R. Gilbert (U.S. Geological Survey)
Abstract
The increasing interest and activity in the control, utilization and
conservation of available water resources have emphasized the need for
more basic hydrologic data. There is urgent need for additional
information on the effect of various factors affecting rates and
magnitude of runoff such as amount and intensity of rainfall,
antecedent rainfall, land-use practices and vegetative cover,
topography, geology, soils, and man-made control structures. Although
considerable runoff data have been collected over the last two decades
for the larger streams, little factual information is available on
rainfall and runoff for small watersheds of the size subject to
control by the floodwater-retarding and erosion-control measures
being planned and installed by the Soil Conservation Service of the
Department of Agriculture. Engineers of that agency have accordingly
been forced to utilize synthetic methods of analysis developed from
experiment-station data for estimating the magnitude of the runoff
which must be handled by the channels, spillways, floodwater-retarding
structures and other hydraulic works in their soil- and
water-conservation operations, without the benefit of actual field
verifications on comparable watersheds.
The specific objective of the data-collection program reported herein
is to supply basic data needed for the application of improved methods
of hydrologic analysis in the development of program plans. The data
collected will be useful as a basis for evaluating the efficacy of the
flood-prevention measures as installed and applied on this particular
watershed and their effect on regimen of main stream to which the area
is tributary, with respect to both flood flows and water yield. Data
will be useful also in the planning and design of other hydraulic
works such as bridges and culverts, small municipal water supplies,
irrigation, and recreation lakes.
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