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[edit] comments on water volume

More images at User:Maveric149/images/Idaho. If you use any, then please either drop me a line on my talk page or move it from ==Orphan== to ==Images that have homes== on my image page. --mav 04:52, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The average volume of the Snake River is hardly 50,000 cfs. I really question the source of the person who claims it is 50,000 cfs. The Colorado and Sacramento Rivers are both larger than the Snake River. The mouth of the Snake River is near Anatone Washington and the average flow is about 27,500 cfs. The Sacremento is about 30,000 cfs and the Colorado 43,000 cfs. User:Peckvet55 17:49, 14 Feb 2007

Source http://waterdata.usgs.gov/id/nwis/uv/?site_no=13334300&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060

You need to look at data over an entire year and for a series of years — not simply grab the current measurement for one particular day. When I went to the same site and grabbed data for the Snake River at Ice Harbor Dam, I saw the following data (year, cusecs):

1963 46,310;

1964 56,610;

1965 73,120;

1966 37,390;

1967 48,830;

1968 45,480;

1969 54,960;

1970 54,050;

1971 74,640;

1972 70,300;

1973 36,130;

1974 76,140;

1975 64,840;

1976 63,720;

1977 27,940;

1978 53,730;

1979 41,620;

1980 46,710;

Myasuda 02:32, 15 February 2007 (UTC)