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" ... a high water discharge is an influence which is adding to the heights of all the sand bars on the river. The greater the stage, the higher the bars and the deeper the pools become ; and so far is this from facilitating the discharge, that, in the... "
Constitution, List of Meetings, Officers, Committees, Fellows and Members - Page 290
by American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 33

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...
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Report of the Mississippi River Commission

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...
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Annual Report of the Secretary of War, Volume 2

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...
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Letter from the Secretary of War: Transmitting, in Compliance with Tht ...

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...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Part 1

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...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 33

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....
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Proceedings, Volume 33

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....
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River Control and the Yellow River of China: A Collection of the ..., Parts 1-2

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...
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To Establish a National Hydraulic Laboratory: Hearing(s) Before a ...

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...
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Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume 48, Part 2

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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