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... flood control and navigation systems , for example , failed to break even until more than forty years after they were initiated ... While 85 per cent of TVA's flood control benefits accrued to a largely industrial section of Chattanooga ...
... flood control and navigation systems , for example , failed to break even until more than forty years after they were initiated ... While 85 per cent of TVA's flood control benefits accrued to a largely industrial section of Chattanooga ...
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... FLOODS AND FLOOD CONTROL Chapter 12 SEISMICITY , RESERVOIRS AND DAMS. [ 1 MUDDY WATERS ; THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND THE NATION'S RIVERS . Arthur Maass , Harvard University Press , Cam- bridge , Mass ; 1951 , ( 260 pages ) . In In ...
... FLOODS AND FLOOD CONTROL Chapter 12 SEISMICITY , RESERVOIRS AND DAMS. [ 1 MUDDY WATERS ; THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND THE NATION'S RIVERS . Arthur Maass , Harvard University Press , Cam- bridge , Mass ; 1951 , ( 260 pages ) . In In ...
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... control and made accountable to the nation as a whole subject to rigorous monitoring and curtail- ment , both in the planning and implementation of schemes that are damaging to people and the envi- ronment . ΒΆ4 FLOODS AS MAN - MADE ...
... control and made accountable to the nation as a whole subject to rigorous monitoring and curtail- ment , both in the planning and implementation of schemes that are damaging to people and the envi- ronment . ΒΆ4 FLOODS AS MAN - MADE ...
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