Detention Reservoirs with Spillway Outlet as an Agency in Flood Control

H. M. Chittenden

doi:10.1061/taceat.0002866

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Detention Reservoirs with Spillway Outlet as an Agency in Flood Control

H. M. Chittenden

Year: 1918 Journal: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers Vol: 82 (1)Pages: 1473-1492 Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers

DOI: 10.1061/taceat.0002866

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Abstract

The writer's attetion was particularly drawn to a possible working relationship between reservoir and spillway, as hereinafter set forth, by his study of the detention reservoir system while acting as consulting engineer to the Miami Conservancy District on certain occasions during the 30 months prior to the adoption of the Official Plan for flood protection in that district.

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Spillway Miami Agency (philosophy) Flood myth Flood control Plan (archaeology) Detention basin Civil engineering Engineering Hydrology (agriculture) Water resource management Environmental science Geography Geotechnical engineering Archaeology Sociology Stormwater Surface runoff

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