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Jun 1908
Note on the Improvement of the Mississippi River
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Volume 60, Issue 1
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During the past twenty-seven years much work has been done on the Mississippi River between Cairo and New Orleans, but comparatively little has been accomplished in the way of permanent improvement, except in the construction of levees. The revetting of caving banks by a continuous mattress has certainly not proven to be a permanent form of improvement in many places, and whenever such a mattress is located for a long time in a place where it is oppose d to the force of the river flow, it must fail. Much of the mattress which has been p laced was constructed in such a manner that, if not carried away bodily by the first flood, it would disintegrate and float away stick by stick, owing to the fastenings being of metal, and soon destroyed by corrosion.
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W. G. Price, M.ASCE
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