Author: Deward Clayton BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arkansas River
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Western Tributaries of the Mississippi
Author: Deward Clayton BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arkansas River
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309177812
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from "point sources" such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other "non-point sources" have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an "orphan" from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
Steamboats on the Western Rivers
Author: Louis C. HunterPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486157784
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Black Life on the Mississippi
Author: Thomas C. BuchananPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a counternarrative to Twain's well-known tale from the perspective of the pilothouse, Thomas C. Buchanan paints a more complete picture of the Mississippi, documenting the rich variety of experiences among slaves and free blacks who lived and worked on the lower decks and along the river during slavery, through the Civil War, and into emancipation. Buchanan explores the creative efforts of steamboat workers to link riverside African American communities in the North and South. The networks African Americans created allowed them to keep in touch with family members, help slaves escape, transfer stolen goods, and provide forms of income that were important to the survival of their communities. The author also details the struggles that took place within the steamboat work culture. Although the realities of white supremacy were still potent on the river, Buchanan shows how slaves, free blacks, and postemancipation freedpeople fought for better wages and treatment. By exploring the complex relationship between slavery and freedom, Buchanan sheds new light on the ways African Americans resisted slavery and developed a vibrant culture and economy up and down America's greatest river.
Upper Mississippi River Navigation Charts
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Rock Island DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Salinity Characteristics of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries
Author: The Centennial Gazetteer of the United States
Author: Adolph SteinwehrPublisher: Philadelphia : J.C. McCurdy [1873]
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
The Eclectic Elementary Geography
Author: The Ohio and Mississippi Floods of 1912
Author: Harry Crawford FrankenfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports for the Upper Mississippi Basins
Author: United States. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota River
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description