| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 862 pages
...this from facilitating the discharge, that, in the language of the Secretary of the Mississippi River Commission, "the effect of an approaching flood is...this amount were: 29.5 ft., 32.5 ft., 33.5 ft., and 35.0 ft. on a rising stage, and 31.6 ft., 34.7 ft., 85.9 ft. and 36. 9 ft. on a falling stage. If the... | |
| United States. Mississippi River Commission - 1882 - 360 pages
...The capacity thus lost is gradually recovered during the low-water period. The first otl'ect of the approaching flood is to impede its own discharge, and the impediment outlasts the Hood. In the river's present condition, an increase of the discharge at or above mean stage would hasten... | |
| United States. War Department - 1883 - 584 pages
...The capacity thus lost is gradually recovered during the low-water period. The first etfect of the approaching flood is to impede its own discharge, and the impediment outlasts the flood. In tho river's present condition, an increase of the discharge at or above mean stage would hasten... | |
| United States. Mississippi River Commission - 1883 - 344 pages
...The capacity thus lost is gradually recovered during the low-water period. The first etlect of the approaching flood is to impede its own discharge, and the impediment outlasts the Hood. In the river's present condition, an increase of the discharge at or above mean stage would hasten... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 474 pages
...this from facilitating the discharge, that, in the language of the Secretary of the Mississippi River Commission, " the effect of an approaching flood is...this amount were: 29.5 ft., 32.5 ft., 33.5 ft., and 35.0 ft. on a rising stage, and 31.6 ft., 34.7 ft., 35.9 ft. and 36. 9 ft. on a falling stage. If the... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 850 pages
...this from facilitating the discharge, that, in the language of the Secretary of the Mississippi River Commission, " the effect of an approaching flood is...which the river discharged this amount were: 29.5 ft., 82.5 ft., 33.5 ft., and 35.0 ft. on a rising stage, and 31.6 ft., 3-4.7 ft., 35.9 ft. and 36. 9 ft.... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 874 pages
...this from facilitating the discharge, that, in the language of the Secretary of the Mississippi River Commission, " the effect of an approaching flood is...which the river discharged this amount were: 29.5 ft., 82.5 ft., 33.5 ft., and 35.0 ft. on a rising stage, and 31.6 ft., 34.7 ft., 85.9 ft. and 86. 9 ft.... | |
| 1918 - 828 pages
...conclusion reached from the CarroIIton observations of 1880, already cited: 'The first effect of the approaching flood is to impede its own discharge, and the impediment outlasts the flood,— is a general truth, and for a very good reason. The flood provokes local scour, and material scoured... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1922 - 120 pages
...of the Mississippi River Commission, in Appendix E, Report of 1882, page 111, stated : " The first effect of an approaching flood is to impede its own...discharge, and the impediment outlasts the flood." Plates 14, 15, 16, and 17 of the Humphreys and Abbort Report of 1861 give many beautiful and convincing... | |
| American Society of Civil Engineers - 1922 - 1364 pages
...Science, in the language of a former Secretary of the Mississippi River Commission : "The first work of a flood is to impede its own discharge and the impediment outlasts the flood." Johnson cited observations at Columbus, Ky., comparing heights on the river gauge when the river was... | |
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