Stream measurement work: Chapter 8 in Eighteenth biennial report of the State Engineer to the governor of Utah: 1931-1932

General stream measurement work for the purpose of determining the water resources of the state has been continued during the biennium by the United States Geological Survey under the usual cooperative agreements with the State Engineer.

This work in Utah is a part of the general plan for the systematic determination of the water resources of the United States begun by the geological Survey in 1888. For the past 25 years the scope of these investigations has been extended far beyond what would have been possible under the Federal appropriation alone by reason of state appropriations for cooperation. At present thirty-nine of the states are cooperating in the stream measurement work under agreements that provide for equal expenditures by the state and federal governments.