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The Improvement of the Mississippi River
The Mississippi is above all things a silt-bearing stream, flowing through a bed of its own creation. It is never clear, even at its lowest; and at its floods it is charged with sediment to an enormous extent. This involves the following consequences: The banks are low and subject to overflow by all floods greater than the mean. Banks and bottom are friable, and, therefore, liable to degradation and erosion. The channel is shifting and unstable, and subject to obstruction by shoals. The Mississippi, like all other streams, is composed of tortuous bends, which modify, in the most striking manner, the laws of its flow.
The Improvement of the Mississippi River
The Mississippi is above all things a silt-bearing stream, flowing through a bed of its own creation. It is never clear, even at its lowest; and at its floods it is charged with sediment to an enormous extent. This involves the following consequences: The banks are low and subject to overflow by all floods greater than the mean. Banks and bottom are friable, and, therefore, liable to degradation and erosion. The channel is shifting and unstable, and subject to obstruction by shoals. The Mississippi, like all other streams, is composed of tortuous bends, which modify, in the most striking manner, the laws of its flow.
The Improvement of the Mississippi River
Starling, William (Autor:in)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 20 ; 85-108
01.01.2021
241889-01-01 pages
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