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... square and 1,000 feet high , or several times as much as the sediment carried annually into the Gulf of Mexico . RAPIDITY OF CAVING As examples of the extent and rapidity of caving a few cases will be given , though there are many such ...
... square and 1,000 feet high , or several times as much as the sediment carried annually into the Gulf of Mexico . RAPIDITY OF CAVING As examples of the extent and rapidity of caving a few cases will be given , though there are many such ...
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... square yards of bank below low water , all placed from Poplar street up- stream over previous work , and 1,460 square yards of upper bank revetment . At the close of the season the total of the appropriation for the work , namely ...
... square yards of bank below low water , all placed from Poplar street up- stream over previous work , and 1,460 square yards of upper bank revetment . At the close of the season the total of the appropriation for the work , namely ...
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... square , placed in trenches , the sides and bottoms of which were evered with cypress bark laid shingle fashion , and the culverts were weighted with stone to prevent flotation . With the work of this season the river portion of the ...
... square , placed in trenches , the sides and bottoms of which were evered with cypress bark laid shingle fashion , and the culverts were weighted with stone to prevent flotation . With the work of this season the river portion of the ...
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... tried at the Head of Bullerton Bar . This consisted of the erection of wire screens having meshes 3 feet square and hung from piles , the screens being hung with the bottom . edge at about the low - water plane . On 117.
... tried at the Head of Bullerton Bar . This consisted of the erection of wire screens having meshes 3 feet square and hung from piles , the screens being hung with the bottom . edge at about the low - water plane . On 117.
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... square . The brush was laid on top of this net in a single layer 12 to 15 feet wide . This layer of brush was tied down by poles perpendicular to the brush and spaced 5 feet apart . Each pole had its butt end thrust over the brush and ...
... square . The brush was laid on top of this net in a single layer 12 to 15 feet wide . This layer of brush was tied down by poles perpendicular to the brush and spaced 5 feet apart . Each pole had its butt end thrust over the brush and ...
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Página 41 - The plan of improvement recommended was discussed at some length in general terms, beginning with the general statement that "the bad navigation of the river is produced by the caving and erosion of its banks, and the excessive widths and the bars and shoals resulting directly therefrom.
Página 39 - It shall be the duty of said Commission to take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi River; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof; prevent destructive floods; promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and the post*] •erria; 2.
Página 39 - Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of said commission to direct and complete such surveys of said river, between the Head of the Passes near its mouth to its headwaters as may now be in progress, and to make such additional surveys, examinations and investigations, topographical, hydrographical and hydrometrical, of said river and its tributaries, as may be deemed necessary by said commission to carry out the objects of this act.
Página 41 - In other words, bad navigation invariably accompanies a wide low-river water-way, and good navigation a narrow one. The work to be done, therefore, is to scour out and maintain a channel through the shoals and bars existing in those portions of the river where the width is excessive, and to build up new banks and develop new shore-lines, so as to establish as far as practicable the requisite conditions of uniform velocity for all stages of the river.
Página 273 - If, then, the final effect of a flood which rises from 30 to 50 feet above low- water is to raise the low- water bed of the river at shoal places, may it not be possible that if the height of this flood be somewhat increased by levees the bed may rise still further instead of being depressed, thus injuring instead of improving navigation.
Página 272 - It is known that during the last twenty years the levee system ha¿ been continuously interrupted by a great number of crevasses between Cairo and Red River. Before the levees were built, a large portion of the flood-waters spread out over the banks of the river in a thin sheet, of which the average depth at the margin of the stream, where it escaped, did not probably excwl a lew inches, or, at most, a foot.
Página 28 - ... and reflected images of a smooth portion of the distant horizon coincide. Now rotate the instrument until it makes an angle with the vertical. If the two images do not separate the glasses are parallel, and if the index glass has been first adjusted the horizon glass will also be in adjustment. 3. To make the Line of Sight of the Telescope Parallel to the Plane of the Arc.
Página 273 - River, and greatly lessen the necessity of their permanent maintenance for that purpose below Red River, even at a reduced height. While it is not claimed that levees in themselves are necessary as a means of securing ultimately a deep channel for navigation, it is believed that the repair and maintenance of the extensive lines already existing will hasten the work of channel improvement through the increased scour and depth of river bed which they would produce daring the highriver stages.
Página 273 - Orleans, where the flood rise is small. In that case the annual discharge might be diminished without, increasing the slope beyond its present value. 2. We do not concur with the majority of the Commission in their estimate of the value of the closure of gaps in existing levees as a factor in the improvement of low-water navigation ; this estimate being derived in part from the theoretical views already referred to. Existing evidence seems to show that during low-water stages the bars below Cairo...
Página 46 - I reaches, by reason of excessive widths, shallow depths, and shifting bars offered unusual difficulties to low-water navigation. It was felt that by attempting their correction the feasibility of the work of the improvement could be thoroughly tested and its value to the country estimated. The plan of improvement contemplated the closure of chutes and the contraction of main-river width where necessary by means of lightly built permeable-training walls connected at intervals to the bank by...