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Streamflow Forecast Of Bear River At Harer, Idaho, J. M. Crook
Streamflow Forecast Of Bear River At Harer, Idaho, J. M. Crook
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Accurate forecasts of stream flow produce direct benefits for the populace of a watershed which can be measured in terms of cash income. In 1946 in Deschutes and Crook counties of Oregon, the stream flow forecast based on snow surveys indicated appreciably greater than average runoff to be anticipated during the course of the subsequent irrigation season (10). Accordingly, some 6500 acres of agricultural land in the area, normally not cropped, were seeded and successfully irrigated. The cash value of crops, grown on this usually unproductive land, was estimated to be more than half a million dollars.
Conversely, when short …