Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper Volume 1117-1119 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ...Kerr County. Datura of gage Is 1,722.7 feet above mean sea level, datura of 1929. Drainage area.-About 370 square miles. Records available.-October 1941 to September 1948. Extremes.-Maximum discharge during year, 179 second-feet July 5 (gage height, 2.08 feet); minimum, 6.9 second-feet June 17. 1941-48: Maximum gage height and discharge not determined; minimum discharge, that of June 17, 1948. Maximum stage known, 36.6 feet July 2, 1932, from Information by local resident. Remarks.-Records excellent. Discharge not computed above 600 second-feet. About 60 acres above station are Irrigated. Guadalupe River at Comfort, Tex. Location.-Water-stage recorder, lat. 2958', long, 98S4, at bridge on U. S. Highway 6." a quarter of a mile downstream from Cypress Creek and half a mile east of Comfort, Kendall County. Datum of gage Is 1,372.0 feet above mean sea level, datum of 1929. Drainage area.-About 990 square miles. Records available.-May 1939 to September 1948. December 1917 to August 1924 at site t miJ.es upstream, and August 1924 to September 1932 at site 4 miles upstream. Records published as Guadalupe River near Comfort (records equivalent during flood runoff originating above upper site and during extremely low flow, at which times Cypress Creek contributes no appreciable flow). Extremes.-Maximum discharge during year, 1,390 second-feet July 12 (gage height, 7.04 feet); minimum, 13 second-feet Aug. 24-28. 1917-32, 1939-48: Maximum discharge, 182,000 second-feet July 1, 1932 (gage heigh:, 38.4 feet, present site and datum, from floodmarks, from data furnished by Texas Highway Department), by slope-area method (flood originated above Cypress Creek drainage: minimum observed, 0.4 second-foot Aug. 2, 1916, at site then In use. Flood of July 16, 1900, ...