REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS No. 40


quality within the two-county area. Where possible, short-term records
were extended to long-term periods to obtain average flow figures and
flow-duration curves. Streamflow characteristics are discussed by basins
as outlined in figure 14.


Figure 13. Runoff in inches for 1961, a year of high runoff, and for 1956, a year of
 low runoff, from areas within Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

 COLLECTION OF DATA
 Streamflow data were collected at only four sites in Escambia and
Santa Rosa counties prior to 1958. The first stream gaging station was
started on the Escambia River at Century in 1934. In 1938 a station was.
established on Big Coldwater Creek near Milton, and in 1941 one was.