Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers on Civil Works Activities written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Civil Works Directorate and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perilous Place Powerful Storms written by Craig E. Colten and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hurricane protection systems that failed New Orleans when Katrina roared on shore in 2005 were the product of four decades of engineering hubris, excruciating delays, and social conflict. In Perilous Place, Powerful Storms, Craig E. Colten traces the protracted process of erecting massive structures designed to fend off tropical storms and examines how human actions and inactions left the system incomplete on the eve of its greatest challenge. Hurricane Betsy in 1965 provided the impetus for Congress to approve unprecedented hurricane protection for the New Orleans area. Army Engineers swiftly outlined a monumental barrier network that would not only safeguard the city at the time but also provide for substantial growth. Scheduled for completion in 1978, the project encountered a host of frustrating delays. From newly imposed environmental requirements to complex construction challenges, to funding battles, to disputes over proper structures, the buffer envisioned for southeast Louisiana remained incomplete forty years later as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city. As Colten reveals, the very remedies intended to shield the city ultimately contributed immensely to the residents' vulnerability by encouraging sprawl into flood-prone territory that was already sinking within the ring of levees. Perilous Place, Powerful Storms illuminates the political, social, and engineering lessons of those who built a hurricane protection system that failed and serves as a warning for those guiding the recovery of post-Katrina New Orleans and Louisiana.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers U S Army on Civil Works Activities written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers on Civil Works Activities written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Civil Works Directorate and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 2292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Recurring Reports to the Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes reports required of executive branch agencies by the Congress on a recurring basis.
Download or read book Recurring Reports to the Congress written by United States. General Accounting Office. Office of Program Analysis and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes reports required of executive branch agencies by the Congress on a recurring basis.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Control written by James F. Barnett Jr. and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Such a map-changing reconfiguration of the country’s largest river would bear national significance as well as disastrous consequences for New Orleans and towns like Morgan City, at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River. Since 1973, the US Army Corps of Engineers Control Complex at Old River has kept the Mississippi from jumping out of its historic channel and plunging through the Atchafalaya Basin to the Gulf of Mexico. Beyond Control traces the history of this phenomenon, beginning with a major channel shift around 3,000 years ago. By the time European colonists began to explore the Lower Mississippi Valley, a unique confluence of waterways had formed where the Red River joined the Mississippi, and the Atchafalaya River flowed out into the Atchafalaya Basin. A series of human alterations to this potentially volatile web of rivers, starting with a bend cutoff in 1831 by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, set the forces in motion for the Mississippi’s move into the Atchafalaya Basin. Told against the backdrop of the Lower Mississippi River’s impending diversion, the book’s chapters chronicle historic floods, rising flood crests, a changing strategy for flood protection, and competing interests in the management of the Old River outlet. Beyond Control is both a history and a close look at an inexorable, living process happening now in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Pacific Ocean Engineers written by Erwin N. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Science for Floodplain Management Into the 21st Century Selected studies of natural and human factors related to flood management in the Upper Mississippi River Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science for Floodplain Management Into the 21st Century written by Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee (U.S.). Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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