Water storage capacity of natural wetland depressions in the Devils Lake Basin of North Dakota

Albert P. Ludden; Dale L. Frink; Douglas H. Johnson

ABSTRACT:

Photogrammetric mapping techniques were used to derive the water storage capacities of natural wetland depressions other than lakes in the Devils Lake Basin of North Dakota. Results from sample quarter-section areas were expanded to the entire basin. Depressions in the Devils Lake Basin have a maximum storage capacity of nearly 811,000 cubic dekameters (657,000 acre-feet). The depressions store about 72 percent of the total runoff volume from a 2-year-frequency runoff and about 41 percent of the total runoff volume from a 100-year-frequency runoff.

Footnotes

Albert P. Ludden is a fish and wildlife biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bismarck, North Dakota 58501; Dale L. Frink is a water resource engineer with the North Dakota State Water Commission, Bismarck, 58505: and Douglas H. Johnson is a statistician with the Fish and Wildlife Service at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, USDI, Jamestown, North Dakota 58401.
Copyright 1983 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society

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