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Much has been written, and many theories advanced by distinguished engineers, during the last twenty-five years, upon the levees, jetties and floods of the lVIississippi. This grand river, called the “Father of Waters,” like the trunk of a tree whose branches extend from the Rocky Mountains on the west, to the Alleghanies on the east, and to Canada on the north, drains a watershed of 1 147 000 square miles, extending over fourteen States, or an area nearly as large as the whole of Europe, with an annual downfall (exclusive of the Red River basin) of eighty trillions (80 000 000 000 000) of cubic feet of water, and a drainage of twenty trillions cubic feet, or a ratio of twenty-five per cent. of the downfall per annum.
Much has been written, and many theories advanced by distinguished engineers, during the last twenty-five years, upon the levees, jetties and floods of the lVIississippi. This grand river, called the “Father of Waters,” like the trunk of a tree whose branches extend from the Rocky Mountains on the west, to the Alleghanies on the east, and to Canada on the north, drains a watershed of 1 147 000 square miles, extending over fourteen States, or an area nearly as large as the whole of Europe, with an annual downfall (exclusive of the Red River basin) of eighty trillions (80 000 000 000 000) of cubic feet of water, and a drainage of twenty trillions cubic feet, or a ratio of twenty-five per cent. of the downfall per annum.
The Overflow of the Mississippi River
Bridges, Lyman (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 11 ; 251-256
2021-01-01
61882-01-01 pages
Article (Journal)
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