Download or read book The Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the Mississippi Watershed Classic Reprint written by Harry Crawford Frankenfield and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Floods of the Spring of 1903, in the Mississippi Watershed Conditions at Memphis, T emz. - The water began to rise at Memphis on February 1, the gage then reading feet; passed the danger line of 33 feet on the morning of February 22, and reached the crest stage of feet, feet above the danger line, on March 20. This stage was feet above the high-water mark of 1882, feet above that of 1897 and feet above that of 1898. The river did not decline to the danger line until April 5. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the Mississippi Watershed written by Harry Crawford Frankenfield and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On causes, duration, overflow, damage, and reports on local areas; with data on river height and property damage, for selected cities.
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Download or read book The Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the Mississippi Watershed written by H. C. Frankenfield and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the Mississippi Watershed Primary Source Edition written by Harry Crawford Frankenfield and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin M The Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the Mississippi Watershed written by United States. Weather Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the Mississipi Watershed written by Harry Crawford Frankenfield and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Floods and Levees of the Mississippi River Classic Reprint written by Benjamin Grubb Humphreys and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Floods and Levees of the Mississippi River I have undertaken to collate such data, and set out in orderly sequence such related incidents as are thought necessary to a proper understanding of the problem to be solved. The platforms of all three of the great political parties in 1912, distinctly, specifi cally and emphatically declared that the control of the floods of the Mississippi River was a national problem, and the Democratic party went so far as to declare that this problem imposes an obli gation which alone can be discharged by the General Government. In accepting the nomination of the Baltimore Convention, Mr. Wil son said: In the case of the Mississippi River, that great central artery of our trade, it is plain that the Federal Government must build and maintain the levees and keep the great waters in harness fur the general use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Mississippi River The Commercial Highway of the Nation written by Frank H. Tompkins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mississippi River; The Commercial Highway of the Nation: The Improvement of Its Navigation and the Control of Its Flood Waters Passage of the Bill Creating the Mississippi River Commis sion - the Eads Plan Manner and Extent of Work Done Under the Supervision of the Mississippi River Commission The Mississippi River - What it Needs and Why it Needs it, Capt. Smith S. Leach, U. S. Army The Mississippi River - How to Control, Maj. T. G. Dabney. The Mississippi River - Its Phenomena and Physical Treat ment, Maj. William Starlin'g The Mississippi River - the Constitutional Power of Congress to Make Appropriations to Restrain its Flood Waters, as well as to Improve its Navigation - the Obligation of the Federal Government to do Both, Hon. N. C. Blanchard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Control of Nature written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control. In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is. In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers. Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
Download or read book Washed Away written by Geoff Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of a flood of near-biblical proportions -- its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America's natural-disaster policies for the next century. The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. Then the freezing rains started and the flooding began. It continued for days. Some people drowned in their attics, others on the roads when they tried to flee. It was the nation's most widespread flood ever—more than 700 people died, hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings were destroyed, and millions were left homeless. The destruction extended far beyond the Ohio valley to Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, and Vermont. Fourteen states in all, and every major and minor river east of the Mississippi. In the aftermath, flaws in America's natural disaster response system were exposed, echoing today's outrage over Katrina. People demanded change. Laws were passed, and dams were built. Teams of experts vowed to develop flood control techniques for the region and stop flooding for good. So far those efforts have succeeded. It is estimated that in the Miami Valley alone, nearly 2,000 floods have been prevented, and the same methods have been used as a model for flood control nationwide and around the world.
Download or read book Dams and Public Safety written by Robert B. Jansen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Corps the Environment and the Upper Mississippi River Basin written by Raymond H. Merritt and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldo Leopold, father of the "land ethic," once said, "The time has come for science to busy itself with the earth itself. The first step is to reconstruct a sample of what we had to begin with." The concept he expressedâ€"restorationâ€"is defined in this comprehensive new volume that examines the prospects for repairing the damage society has done to the nation's aquatic resources: lakes, rivers and streams, and wetlands. Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems outlines a national strategy for aquatic restoration, with practical recommendations, and features case studies of aquatic restoration activities around the country. The committee examines: Key concepts and techniques used in restoration. Common factors in successful restoration efforts. Threats to the health of the nation's aquatic ecosystems. Approaches to evaluation before, during, and after a restoration project. The emerging specialties of restoration and landscape ecology.
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Download or read book The History of Large Federal Dams written by David P. Billington and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
