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On March 8th, 1884, at about one o'clock in the morning, a break occurred in the Davis Levee, situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River, some twenty-three miles above the City of New Orleans. The crevasse, in the official report of the Board of State Engineers for the years 1882-83, and to April 20th, 1884, is said to have been caused by the washing out of loose earth in an imperfectly refilled rice flume cut in the levee. The levee at this point was upwards of eight feet high, and the water in the river on that date was within eighteen inches of the top of the levee. The gauge at New Orleans read one foot one inch below high water mark of 1874.
On March 8th, 1884, at about one o'clock in the morning, a break occurred in the Davis Levee, situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River, some twenty-three miles above the City of New Orleans. The crevasse, in the official report of the Board of State Engineers for the years 1882-83, and to April 20th, 1884, is said to have been caused by the washing out of loose earth in an imperfectly refilled rice flume cut in the levee. The levee at this point was upwards of eight feet high, and the water in the river on that date was within eighteen inches of the top of the levee. The gauge at New Orleans read one foot one inch below high water mark of 1874.
The Davis (Crevasse) Levee
Lewis, Sidney F. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 17 ; 199-203
2021-01-01
51887-01-01 pages
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