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Jan 1924
The Need of A National Hydraulic Laboratory for the Solution of River Problems
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 87, Issue 1
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The Federal Government and the States have expended hundreds of millions of dollars in trying to solve these problems; but it is still possible for me break in a levee to lay waste 5 000 sq. miles of as fertile land as the sun;hines on, with a loss of $25 000 000 almost over night; and navigation in any important sense above Vicksburg, Miss., appears to be dead beyond present prospects of resurrection.
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© 1924 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1924
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John R. Freeman, ASCE
Past-President, Cons. Hydr. Engr., Providence, R. I.
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