Author: Brown, Cunningham & Gannuch
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
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Orleans Parish Drainage for the 21st Century
Author: Brown, Cunningham & Gannuch
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
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Draining New Orleans
Author: Richard Campanella
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807179426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to “the world’s toughest drainage problem,” renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City. With forays into geography, public health, engineering, architecture, politics, sociology, race relations, and disaster response, he chronicles the herculean attempts to “reclaim” the city’s swamps and marshes and install subsurface drainage for massive urban expansion. The study begins with a vivid description of a festive event on Mardi Gras weekend 1915, which attracted an entourage of elite New Orleanians to the edge of Bayou Barataria to witness the christening of giant water pumps. President Woodrow Wilson, connected via phoneline from the White House, planned to activate the station with the push of a button, effectively draining the West Bank of New Orleans. What transpired in the years and decades that followed can only be understood by examining the large swath of history dating back two centuries earlier—to the geological formation and indigenous occupation of this delta—and extending through the colonial, antebellum, postbellum, and Progressive eras to modern times. The consequences of dewatering New Orleans proved both triumphant and tragic. The city’s engineering prowess transformed it into a world leader in drainage technology, yet the municipality also fell victim to its own success. Rather than a story about mud and machinery, this is a history of people, power, and the making of place. Campanella emphasizes the role of determined and sometimes unsavory individuals who spearheaded projects to separate water from dirt, creating lucrative opportunities in the process not only for the community but also for themselves.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807179426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to “the world’s toughest drainage problem,” renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City. With forays into geography, public health, engineering, architecture, politics, sociology, race relations, and disaster response, he chronicles the herculean attempts to “reclaim” the city’s swamps and marshes and install subsurface drainage for massive urban expansion. The study begins with a vivid description of a festive event on Mardi Gras weekend 1915, which attracted an entourage of elite New Orleanians to the edge of Bayou Barataria to witness the christening of giant water pumps. President Woodrow Wilson, connected via phoneline from the White House, planned to activate the station with the push of a button, effectively draining the West Bank of New Orleans. What transpired in the years and decades that followed can only be understood by examining the large swath of history dating back two centuries earlier—to the geological formation and indigenous occupation of this delta—and extending through the colonial, antebellum, postbellum, and Progressive eras to modern times. The consequences of dewatering New Orleans proved both triumphant and tragic. The city’s engineering prowess transformed it into a world leader in drainage technology, yet the municipality also fell victim to its own success. Rather than a story about mud and machinery, this is a history of people, power, and the making of place. Campanella emphasizes the role of determined and sometimes unsavory individuals who spearheaded projects to separate water from dirt, creating lucrative opportunities in the process not only for the community but also for themselves.
Master Plan for Orleans Parish Drainage Improvements
Author: Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
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Category : Drainage
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Master Plan for Orleans Parish Drainage Improvements
Author: Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall
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Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
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Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
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The Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans
Author: Brown, Cunningham & Gannuch
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Report on the Drainage of the City of New Orleans
Author: New Orleans (La.). Advisory Board on Drainage
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Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Semi-annual Report of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans to the Honorable City Council
Author: Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans
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Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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National Register Evaluation of New Orleans Drainage System, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Author: Benjamin D. Maygarden
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Determination of Age and Potential for National Register of Historic Places Eligibility, Orleans Parish Drainage Pumping Stations, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Semi-annual Report of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans
Author: Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans
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Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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