Hydrology – 12 WATER LOSS FROM THE LAKE

Hydrology of Crater, East and Davis Lakes, Oregon by Kenneth N. Phillips
 CRATER LAKE

 

WATER LOSS FROM THE LAKE

Water leaves Crater Lake by seepage and evaporation only. For this report, seepage loss was first calculated, and evaporation loss was then computed as the residual needed to balance the relationship between supply, seepage, and change in lake level (table 6).

TABLE 6.-Computation of annual evaporation loss from Crater Lake
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