The Desert Laboratory

The Vigil Network
Galena River: Summary of Areas and Volumes of Alluvial Fans

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Galena Alluvial Fans
Summary of Areas and Volumes1

Silt Fans Gravel Fans
Inside Mapped Floodplain Outside Mapped Floodplain Inside Mapped Floodplain Outside Mapped Floodplain
Area (acres) Volume (acre-feet) Area (acres) Volume (acre-feet) Area (acres) Volume (acre-feet) Area (acres) Volume (acre-feet)
Galena Main Stem
5-6 0.32 0.81
6-7 3.24 8.10 8.24 20.68
7-8 2.75 5.51 0.07 0.13
9-10 2.59 5.18
19-20 14.26 29.00
22-23 1.30 2.16
24-25 1.62 2.43
37-mouth 8.69 17.38
Sub-total 14.68 30.99 13.82 30.58 14.58 29.81
Shullsburg Branch
1-2 0.97 1.46 1.30 2.59 5.18 12.96 0.97 0.97
2-3 2.11 4.21
Sub-total 0.97 1.46 3.41 6.80 5.18 12.96 0.97 0.97
Coon Branch
1-2 3.29 5.23 3.27 5.62 0.21 0.32
2-3 1.30 1.62 1.62 2.11
3-mouth 2.11 2.11
Sub-total 4.59 6.85 4.89 7.73 2.32 2.43
East Fork
1-2 0.97 1.46 3.89 7.78
2-3 16.20 32.40
Sub-total 0.97 1.46 20.09 40.18
TOTAL 21.21 40.76 42.21 85.29 7.50 15.39 15.55 30.78

1 These volumes, and the areas recorded as "outside mapped floodplain," are for modern sediment deposits not included in computed or estimated covered-plain sediments.

8 May 1940

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