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Jan 1944

Model-Prototype Conformity: Grand Tower, Mississippi River

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Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 109, Issue 1

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The model study involved the development of an effective plan for improving the navigation channel of the Mississippi River between Mile 75 and Mile 80 above Cairo, Ill. At Mile 84.0 the Mississippi River enters a rock gorge, the bluffs of which confine the flow of the river to Mile 79.5. At the latter point the rock bluffs on the left bank of the Mississippi River recede, allowing the river to widen and to divide its flow between Grand Tower Island chute and the river channel along the right bluff line. The natural tendency of the river is to follow the chute channel. However, because of the more satisfactory navigation conditions that would prevail if the river could be made to develop the crossing to the right bluff line at Mile 79, two pile dikes were constructed in 1939 from the left bank at Mile 79.5 and Mile 79.2.

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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 109Issue 1January 1944
Pages: 100 - 102

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Frederick R. Brown, J.ASCE
Asst. Engr., U. S. Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Miss.

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