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River and Canal Engineering, the characteristics of open flowing streams, and the principles and methods to be followed in dealing with them.Bellasis, E. S. (Edward Skelton)

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River and Canal Engineering, the characteristics of open flowing streams, and the principles and methods to be followed in dealing with them.

Name: River and Canal Engineering, the characteristics of open flowing streams, and the principles and methods to be followed in dealing with them.
Author: Bellasis, E. S. (Edward Skelton)

Bellasis, E. S. (Edward Skelton)

Canals; Hydraulic engineering; Rivers

-- in flights, 98.

  Mersey estuary, 202.

  Mississippi jetties, 48.

  Narora weir, 109.

  Navigation canals, 93.

  Needles, regulator, 117.

  New South Wales, available rainfall, 12.

  Obstruction, effect of, 5.

  Obstructions in streams, 28.

  Okla weir, 112.

  Open streams, hydraulics of, 4.

  Perishable materials, use of, 4.

  Permanent régime of streams, 29.

  Pitching, 64.

  Prediction of floods, 150.

  Prevention of floods, 153.

  Protection of banks (see Bank protection).

  Rainfall, 6.

  -- available, 9, 26.

  -- -- New South Wales, 9.

  -- -- Sudbury River, Massachusetts, 12.

  -- -- various countries, 11.

  -- British Organisation, 9.

  -- “catchment area,” “basin,” 9.

  -- distribution of, 7.

  -- driest year, 7.

  -- evaporation, 9.

  -- heavy falls in short periods, 15.

  -- influence of cultivation, 15.

  -- -- of forests and vegetation, 14.

  -- local figures, 8.

  -- measurement of, 13.

  -- observations, period of, 7.

  -- statistics, 6.

  -- variation of, 6.

  Rain-gauge, 8, 13.

  Rapid, canal, 113.

  Regulators, 118.

  Reservoirs, 162.

  -- capacity, 167.

  -- compensation water, 162.

  -- leakage, 163.

  -- waste weir, 164.

  Résumé of the subject, 1.

  Rhine, embankments, 159.

  Richmond river, jetties, 206.

  -- weir at, 119.

  River bars, 203.

  -- training groynes, 85.

  -- -- walls, 85.

  Rivers, deltaic, 203.

  -- floods in, 146.

  -- non-deltaic, 205.

  -- tidal, 192.

  -- training and canalisation, 84, 89.

  Run-off in small streams, 143.

  Salt water, effect of, 29.

  Sand separator, 34.

  Sandbanks, 47.

  Scour (see Silt and scour).

  Seine estuary, 200.

  Set of stream, effect of, 5.

  Ship canals, 95.

  Shutters, self-acting, Switzerland and Bavaria, 127.

  Silting and scouring, 27.

  Silt and scour, action at bends, 42.

  -- -- -- on sides of channel, 40.

  -- -- effect of regulator or movable weir, 49.

  -- -- in the Sirhind Canal, 32, 54.

  -- -- increasing or reducing, 48.

  -- -- materials carried in suspension, 3.

  -- -- methods of investigation, 33.

  -- -- practical formulæ and figures, 37.

  -- -- production of, 48.

  -- -- rolled materials, 29.

  -- -- sand separator, 34.

  -- -- scrapers or harrows, 48.

  -- clay and sand, 36.

  -- deposit, production of, 51.

  -- in river Sutlej, 35.

  -- in river Tay, 35.

  -- quantity and distribution of, 35.

  -- upstream of weirs, 103.

  Sidhnai Canal, dam, 117.

  Sirhind Canal, silt and scour in, 32, 54.

  Slips in embankments, 177.

  Sluice gates, Stoney’s, 119.

  Sluices, 102.

  Small streams, floods in, 141.

  Soundings, 21.

  Spurs or groynes, 58, 60, 61.

  Stream gauges, 19.

  -- diversions of, 73.

  -- general tendencies of, 45.

  -- information concerning intermittent, 25.

  -- -- -- small, 24, 25.

  -- overflow, 46.

  -- shifting, 20, 47.

  Sudbury River, Massachusetts, available rainfall, 12.

  Surface slope observations, 22.

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River and Canal Engineering, the characteristics of open flowing streams, and the principles and methods to be followed in dealing with them.Bellasis, E. S. (Edward Skelton)

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River and Canal Engineering, the characteristics of open flowing streams, and the principles and methods to be followed in dealing with them.

Bellasis, E. S. (Edward Skelton)

Canals; Hydraulic engineering; Rivers

-- in flights, 98.

  Mersey estuary, 202.

  Mississippi jetties, 48.

  Narora weir, 109.

  Navigation canals, 93.

  Needles, regulator, 117.

  New South Wales, available rainfall, 12.

  Obstruction, effect of, 5.

  Obstructions in streams, 28.

  Okla weir, 112.

  Open streams, hydraulics of, 4.

  Perishable materials, use of, 4.

  Permanent régime of streams, 29.

  Pitching, 64.

  Prediction of floods, 150.

  Prevention of floods, 153.

  Protection of banks (see Bank protection).

  Rainfall, 6.

  -- available, 9, 26.

  -- -- New South Wales, 9.

  -- -- Sudbury River, Massachusetts, 12.

  -- -- various countries, 11.

  -- British Organisation, 9.

  -- “catchment area,” “basin,” 9.

  -- distribution of, 7.

  -- driest year, 7.

  -- evaporation, 9.

  -- heavy falls in short periods, 15.

  -- influence of cultivation, 15.

  -- -- of forests and vegetation, 14.

  -- local figures, 8.

  -- measurement of, 13.

  -- observations, period of, 7.

  -- statistics, 6.

  -- variation of, 6.

  Rain-gauge, 8, 13.

  Rapid, canal, 113.

  Regulators, 118.

  Reservoirs, 162.

  -- capacity, 167.

  -- compensation water, 162.

  -- leakage, 163.

  -- waste weir, 164.

  Résumé of the subject, 1.

  Rhine, embankments, 159.

  Richmond river, jetties, 206.

  -- weir at, 119.

  River bars, 203.

  -- training groynes, 85.

  -- -- walls, 85.

  Rivers, deltaic, 203.

  -- floods in, 146.

  -- non-deltaic, 205.

  -- tidal, 192.

  -- training and canalisation, 84, 89.

  Run-off in small streams, 143.

  Salt water, effect of, 29.

  Sand separator, 34.

  Sandbanks, 47.

  Scour (see Silt and scour).

  Seine estuary, 200.

  Set of stream, effect of, 5.

  Ship canals, 95.

  Shutters, self-acting, Switzerland and Bavaria, 127.

  Silting and scouring, 27.

  Silt and scour, action at bends, 42.

  -- -- -- on sides of channel, 40.

  -- -- effect of regulator or movable weir, 49.

  -- -- in the Sirhind Canal, 32, 54.

  -- -- increasing or reducing, 48.

  -- -- materials carried in suspension, 3.

  -- -- methods of investigation, 33.

  -- -- practical formulæ and figures, 37.

  -- -- production of, 48.

  -- -- rolled materials, 29.

  -- -- sand separator, 34.

  -- -- scrapers or harrows, 48.

  -- clay and sand, 36.

  -- deposit, production of, 51.

  -- in river Sutlej, 35.

  -- in river Tay, 35.

  -- quantity and distribution of, 35.

  -- upstream of weirs, 103.

  Sidhnai Canal, dam, 117.

  Sirhind Canal, silt and scour in, 32, 54.

  Slips in embankments, 177.

  Sluice gates, Stoney’s, 119.

  Sluices, 102.

  Small streams, floods in, 141.

  Soundings, 21.

  Spurs or groynes, 58, 60, 61.

  Stream gauges, 19.

  -- diversions of, 73.

  -- general tendencies of, 45.

  -- information concerning intermittent, 25.

  -- -- -- small, 24, 25.

  -- overflow, 46.

  -- shifting, 20, 47.

  Sudbury River, Massachusetts, available rainfall, 12.

  Surface slope observations, 22.

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