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Jul 11, 2012
Struggles to Make the Panama Canal Viable: 1914-39
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries
Abstract
The Panama Canal opened just as the First World War erupted in August 1914. The newly completed canal was underutilized and plagued with closures by massive landslides throughout its first quarter century of operation. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson empowered the National Academy of Sciences to undertake a scientific study of the landslides and report on how they might be mitigated. During the interwar years the canal became a naval bastion almost without peer in the western world, but plans for capital ships began exceeding the width of the canal's locks by the late 1930s.
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World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries
Pages: 1049 - 1057
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© 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Jul 11, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Asset management
- Building materials
- Business management
- Canals
- Civil engineering landmarks
- Coasts, oceans, ports, and waterways engineering
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Financial management
- Geohazards
- Geotechnical engineering
- History and Heritage
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Landslides
- Locks (waterway)
- Materials engineering
- Mitigation and remediation
- Practice and Profession
- Ships
- Water and water resources
- Waterways
- Wood and wood products
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K.F. Hasselmann Chair in Geological Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409. E-mail: [email protected]
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