Reclamation of Louisiana's Wet Prairie Lands (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 0260290645
- ISBN-13
- 9780260290649
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11-14
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Louisiana Meadows Investment Company
Description
Excerpt from Reclamation of Louisiana's Wet Prairie Lands Sually the canals are 40 feet wide and from 6 to 8 feet deep. The dirt from the canals forms a levee with a 30 foot base, and 10-foot crown. 6 feet high. This is suļ¬icient protection from any high-water mark. Regarding the height of levees of the gulf side, we have not reclaimed any land near enough to the gulf, so that we had. To take the tide into consideration. Excepting at La Branch. And there our levees are about 6 feet high. The highest we have ever known the water to b there above the actual level of the ground is about 18 inches or 2 feet. When the land is surrounded by canal and levee. Then with a dredge. Dig an inside canal crossing the tract each way. These do not connect with the outside canal and are only for storage and for the small lateral ditches to drain into. A pump must be installed of capacity to handle the rainfall. This pump tolift the water out of the storage canals over the levee into the outside canal which empties into the lake or bayo'u. We are using the centrifugal pumps on sevrai' tracts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
