Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1498
Book Description
Annual Report FY ... of the Secretary of the Army on Civil Works Activities
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1498
Book Description
Secretary of the Army's Report on Civil Works Activities
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
Book Description
Department of the Army Historical Summary
Author: Center of Military HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, on Civil Works Activities
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
Book Description
Beyond Control
Author: James F. Barnett Jr.Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149681116X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Such a map-changing reconfiguration of the country’s largest river would bear national significance as well as disastrous consequences for New Orleans and towns like Morgan City, at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River. Since 1973, the US Army Corps of Engineers Control Complex at Old River has kept the Mississippi from jumping out of its historic channel and plunging through the Atchafalaya Basin to the Gulf of Mexico. Beyond Control traces the history of this phenomenon, beginning with a major channel shift around 3,000 years ago. By the time European colonists began to explore the Lower Mississippi Valley, a unique confluence of waterways had formed where the Red River joined the Mississippi, and the Atchafalaya River flowed out into the Atchafalaya Basin. A series of human alterations to this potentially volatile web of rivers, starting with a bend cutoff in 1831 by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, set the forces in motion for the Mississippi’s move into the Atchafalaya Basin. Told against the backdrop of the Lower Mississippi River’s impending diversion, the book’s chapters chronicle historic floods, rising flood crests, a changing strategy for flood protection, and competing interests in the management of the Old River outlet. Beyond Control is both a history and a close look at an inexorable, living process happening now in the twenty-first century.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Secretary of the Army's Report on Civil Works Activities
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Native American Sacred Places
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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