History of Drainage Channel Improvement in the Vermilion River Watershed, Wabash Basin (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book History of Drainage Channel Improvement in the Vermilion River Watershed, Wabash Basin (Classic Reprint) written by Ralph C. Hay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Drainage Channel Improvement in the Vermilion River Watershed, Wabash Basin Figure 1. Modern dragline cleaning a drainage channel. (courtesy of the Soil Conservation Service) Figure 2. A floating dredge boat at work on Camp Creek Special Drain age District west of Seymour in Champaign County on June 30, 1907. The dipper or shovel is submerged at the end of the vertical beam. A similar dredge was used during that same period for dredging Beaver Lake and Saline Branch. (cour tesy Champaign County Historical Society) 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.