Endnotes

(1) Deep Thought, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts, Douclas Adams, Harmony Books, New York, 1985. Used with permission. (Deep Thought, an articulate computer, is at work on the ultimate question in the Universe.)

(2) A "deficit" occurs when water deliveries from the reservoir fail to meet normal demands.

(3) Technical Report No. 39, Stanford Watershed Model IV, Norman H. Crawford and Ray K. Linsley, Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1962.
Users Manual for Hydrological Simulation Program - Fortran (HSPF), Robert Johanson et al., U.S. EPA, Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens, GA. EPA-600/9-80-015, 1980.

(4) An exploration of the sensitivity of the atmosphere to initial conditions by Edward Lorenz at MIT (Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 20 [1963], pp. 130-141) was instrumental in the development of Chaos Theory.

(5) Chester Morse Lake is the principal water supply reservoir for the City of Seattle.

(6) Chester Morse reservoir, upstream from Renton, WA, was assumed to be at full pool capacity for both flood frequency simulations.

(7) The near term flood for a given return period may be less than, or greater than, the median or long term flood at the same return period, i.e., the long term flood frequency would plot between the flood frequencies in Figure 7.

(8) Narrator, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts, Douglas Adams, Harmony Books, New York, 1985. Used with permission.

(9) Safe Yield is defined, for the purpose of this discussion, as the minimum water yield the reservoir would supply in any historic drawdown season.

(10) A low risk criteria might reduce water deliveries if a 5,000 acre- foot deficit is expected at a 2 percent probability level. A high risk criteria might not reduce water deliveries until the probability of a 5,000 acre-foot deficit reaches 50 percent.

(11) Narrator, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts, Douglas Adams, Harmony Books, New York, 1985. Used with permission.


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