The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 494
The Architect and Eiii::inccr 123 … direction. The result is that it infalliblycloses against the water which, underconditions of high tide, floods, etc., wouldtend to run back from the river or otherwaterway on to the land to be dranied.and. on the other hand, instantly andsurely opens to permit the draining outcif such water from…
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