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Jan 1950
A Symposium: Their Relation to Flood Control and Navigation
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 115, Issue 1
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For practically all uses except flood control, reservoirs have as their main purpose retention of excess water for future systematic delivery for some beneficial use, generally over a prolonged period. For flood control, however, the main purpose of the reservoir is to keep surplus water out of the rivers during flood periods without regard to any future beneficial use of the water. The storage capacity having been used in decapitating one flood, the reservoir must be drawn down as soon as possible if security against future floods is to be assured. As long as this necessity exists, it is impracticable to schedule releases of the temporarily retained floodwaters over a prolonged period for future use because to do so would incur the risk of another flood arriving while the reservoir does not have capacity to retain it.
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© 1950 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1950
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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Malcolm Elliott, M.ASCE
CoL. U. S. Army (Retired); Cons. Engr., Elliott and Porter, St. Louis, Mo.
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