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Nature, Gardens & Animals
The Passaic Flood of 1903
Marshall Ora Leighton
71 pages~1 hr 24 min read10 chapters$4.99
In 1903 the Passaic River rose and swept away bridges, mills, and homes. Marshall Leighton documents the great flood: its damages, the preventive measures that failed and might have worked, and the lessons drawn. Sober, precise, and cautionary. A geological survey study of a disaster and how to guard against the next. Understand how a river turns deadly and what might have held it back.
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Inside this book
10 chapters
- 1THE PASSAIC FLOOD OF 1903
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 4THE PASSAIC FLOOD OF 1903.
- 5DAMAGES.
- 6PREVENTIVE MEASURES.
- 7GENERAL CONCLUSIONS.
- 8INDEX.
- 9PUBLICATIONS OF UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
- 10FOOTNOTES:
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