Author: U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Enterprise GIS Geospatial Databases
Publisher: USACE, Vicksburg District
ISBN: 0984857230
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Cairo, Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico Mile 953 A.H.P. to Mile 22 B.H.P.
2015 Flood Control and Navigation Maps of the Lower Mississippi River
Author: U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Enterprise GIS Geospatial Databases
Publisher: USACE, Vicksburg District
ISBN: 0984857230
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Cairo, Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico Mile 953 A.H.P. to Mile 22 B.H.P.
Publisher: USACE, Vicksburg District
ISBN: 0984857230
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Cairo, Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico Mile 953 A.H.P. to Mile 22 B.H.P.
Beyond Control
Author: James F. Barnett Jr.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496811143
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496811143
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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.
United States Coast Pilot
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Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Notice to Mariners
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Category : Notices to mariners
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
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Category : Notices to mariners
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
River Mechanics
Author: Pierre Y. Julien
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108654010
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
The second edition of Julien's textbook presents an analysis of rivers from mountain streams to river estuaries. The book is rooted in fundamental principles to promote sound engineering practice. State-of-the-art methods are presented to underline theory and engineering applications. River mechanics blends the dual concepts of water conveyance and sediment transport. Like the first edition, this textbook contains ample details on river equilibrium, river dynamics, bank stabilization, and river engineering. Complementary chapters also cover the physical and mathematical modeling of rivers. As well as being completely updated throughout, three new chapters have been added on watershed dynamics, hillslope stability, and stream restoration. Throughout the text, hundreds of examples, exercises, problems, and case studies assist the reader in learning the essential concepts of river engineering. The textbook is very well illustrated to enhance advanced student learning, while researchers and practitioners will find the book to be an invaluable reference.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108654010
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
The second edition of Julien's textbook presents an analysis of rivers from mountain streams to river estuaries. The book is rooted in fundamental principles to promote sound engineering practice. State-of-the-art methods are presented to underline theory and engineering applications. River mechanics blends the dual concepts of water conveyance and sediment transport. Like the first edition, this textbook contains ample details on river equilibrium, river dynamics, bank stabilization, and river engineering. Complementary chapters also cover the physical and mathematical modeling of rivers. As well as being completely updated throughout, three new chapters have been added on watershed dynamics, hillslope stability, and stream restoration. Throughout the text, hundreds of examples, exercises, problems, and case studies assist the reader in learning the essential concepts of river engineering. The textbook is very well illustrated to enhance advanced student learning, while researchers and practitioners will find the book to be an invaluable reference.
Hydrologic and Sedimentologic Data Collected During Three Cruises on the Mississippi River and Some of Its Tributaries from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to New Orleans, Louisiana, July 1991-May 1992
Author: John Alexander Moody
Publisher:
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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Aids to Navigation Manual and Chart Updating Manual
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
United States Coast Pilot
Author: United States. National Ocean Service
Publisher:
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Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Serials Currently Received by the National Agricultural Library, a Keyword Index
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
Hydrologic and Sedimentologic Data Collected During Four Cruises at High Water on the Mississippi River and Some of Its Tributaries, March 1989-June 1990
Author: John Alexander Moody
Publisher:
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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description