The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 478
on defect which is fatal for thispurpose. A trickle or ooze of water mayat any time make its way along the out-side of the pipe, that point being theweakest in the levee. Under flood con-ditions this trickle may very quickly be-come a stream, and the stream a ragingtorrent. Many a conduit has been… … Cast /mn Head Ctrl? some engineers that the only advisablemethod of taking water from the riveris that of the true siphon, carrying thewater over the levee top. This certainlyavoids many of the difficulties attendingthe straight conduits; but it is, after all,very doubtful whether it constitutes…
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