Newfoundland and Labrador Water Resources Study

• Published in: The Canadian Surveyor
• Main Authors: Swain, B.J., Cadou, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1969
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Engineering; General Environmental Science; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/tcs-1969-0036; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/tcs-1969-0036

The data bank principle has been used for a study of the water resources of Newfoundland and Labrador. The area was partitioned into squares having sides of 10 kilometers consistent with the UTM grid on the 1:250,000 NTS maps. Data on long-term average temperature and precipitation from the records of meteorological stations in the area were combined with physiographic factors to estimate runoff for each grid element. From these estimates, the total runoff for a watershed was aggregated, checked against gauging-station data and revised by an iterative procedure, where necessary, prior to storing in a master file. As an example of the usefulness of this master file, a set of curves of elevation, flow, hydroelectric potential per kilometer and cumulative hydroelectrlcal potential are presented. An IBM 1130 computer with one model 2315 disk cartridge was used for the systein.