Winooski Drainage Basin

The mean annual precipitation and elevation have a positive linear relationship. The datum in the top right corner is from Mount Mansfield and is many magnitudes greater because the elevation is much higher than the rest of vermont.

Not all the rainfall in the Winooski basin becomes runoff. Out of the 45.6 inches per year only 51.7% becomes runoff, the rest is absorbed into the earth going to the tree’s plants, and clays/soils, or is even evaporated back into the atmosphere.

The annual TDS and TSS loads were roughly calculated to be 49.1 Mg/(km^2)yr and 48.8 Mg/(km^2)yr. They are roughly the same value, but when compared to the report of loads in Cuba they pale in comparison. The Cuba rate are probably so much higher than the Winooski drainage basin’s loads for a few reasons. First Cuba has a more tropical environment meaning its wetter and hotter, creating faster erosional rate of sediments. Second Cuba is an active tectonic zone meaning the earth is moving quite a bit more than the middle of the plate Winooski basin. The active tectonic zone means there is more uplift in the region prompting rivers to respond by incising and eroding more material away than they transporting.