USGS

General Procedure for Gaging Streams

U.S. Geological Survey, Techniques for Water-Resources Investigations, Book 3, Chapter A6

By R.W. Carter and Jacob Davidian


Table of Contents

Preface

Abstract

Introduction

General objective and procedures

Selection of gaging site

Artificial controls

Measurement of stage

Methods of sensing stage

Water-stage recorders

Reference gages

Discharge measurements

Current-meter measurements

Indirect discharge measurements

Dilution method

Discharge ratings

Stage-discharge relations

Complex discharge ratings

Computation and preparation of discharge records

Station analysis

Manual computations

Automatic computations

Publication of records

References

 


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