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New Orleans reaches for Gulf
Description of construction of 76 mi long navigational canal through marshlands including 53 mi of land cut; in final stage, when completed in 1967, canal will be 36 ft deep and 500 ft wide; unique method of erecting retaining dikes by dredging; dikes prevent uncontrolled flow of dredge-effluent over adjoining lands and into existing waterways and they help reclaim marshlands adjacent to channel for port development or industrial sites.
New Orleans reaches for Gulf
Description of construction of 76 mi long navigational canal through marshlands including 53 mi of land cut; in final stage, when completed in 1967, canal will be 36 ft deep and 500 ft wide; unique method of erecting retaining dikes by dredging; dikes prevent uncontrolled flow of dredge-effluent over adjoining lands and into existing waterways and they help reclaim marshlands adjacent to channel for port development or industrial sites.
New Orleans reaches for Gulf
Eng News -- Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 168
1962
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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