The Mill River Water Unit
Lee B. Hotchkiss and Beverly Stern
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9. Ray K. Linsley,
Water-Resources Engineering
(New York: McGraw Hill, 1979), Chapter 1.
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10. The
State of Connecticut
shaded-relief map, scale 1: 125 000. Size 45 x 56 inches. Cost $3.25. Available from U.S. Geological Survey, 1200 South Eads Street, Arlington, Virginia 22202.
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11.
Natural Drainage Basins in Connecticut
colored map with topographic base. 1:125 state map scale. Cost $5.00. Available from the Natural Resources Division, 450 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103.
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12. Gordon C. Dickinson,
Map and Air Photography
, (New York: Wiley, 1979), pp. 134-149.
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13. In a ratio the quantity named first is put in the numerator, the quantity named second is put in the denominator: i.e., map distance to ground distance is
map distance
. Further, a ratio such as 1 ground distance 63 360 is often written as 1: 63 360. It is a matter of convenience since the two forms are equivalent.
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14. This uses the general rate rule method of solving rate problems. It is from the method presented in Goodstein’s
Sci-Math
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