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Beaver Creek: Summary of Data for Lake Marinuka

Data Files:


Quantity Unit
Age1 72 Years
Watershed Area2 138.67 Square miles
Reservoir:
Area at spillway stage:
Original 277.87 Acres
At date of survey 151.32 Acres
Loss of area 126.55 Acres
Storage capacity to spillway level:
Original 1677.39 Acre-feet
At date of survey 682.86 Acre-feet
Capacity per square mile of drainage area:2
Original 12.10 Acre-feet
At date of survey 4.92 Acre-feet
Sedimentation:
Sediment above crest3, 4 479.35 Acre-feet
Sediment below crest 994.53 Acre-feet
Total sediment 1473.88 Acre-feet
Average annual accumulation:
From entire drainage area2 0.15 Acre-feet
Per 100 square miles of drainage area5 14.81 Acre-feet
Per acre of drainage area:5
By volume 10.08 Cubic feet
By weight6 0.37 Ton
Depletion of storage:
Loss of original capacity:7, 8
Per year 0.82 Percent
To date of survey 59.29 Percent

1 Storage began 1871, no month given, June assumed; average date of survey, June 1939.

2 Including area of lake.

3 Including 129.20 acre-feet of redeposited material on the delta dredged from below crest in 1937.

4 Does not include above-crest deposits above Range 14, because these are considered valley deposits.

5 Excluding area of lake.

6 Using weighted average of 14 sediment samples, (weighted according to relative volume of total sediment estimated to be represented by each) equaling 72.48 pounds per cubic foot.

7 As of the 1939 survey.

8 In 1937 an estimated 155.18 acre-feet of sediment was removed from the lake and redeposited on the delta. The measured volume of the redeposited material, 129.20 acre-feet, was corrected in accordance with the difference in the average weights of the below-crest sediments (56.70 pounds per cubic foot) and the redeposited sediments (68.10 pounds per cubic foot), to arrive at this estimate.

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