What of the city? America's greatest issue--city planning, what it is and how to go about it to achieve success (1919)
Moody, Walter Dwight, 1874-1920 · Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co. · leaf 86
tmentof hundreds of millions, if necessary, in the constructionof works to prevent such loss. The initial cost would begreat, but this would be saved many times in the end. From 1832 to 1913, according to the United StatesWeather Bureau, nineteen floods occurred, during whichthe w^ater was five… … ^^ *»«* ®^•• AMERICAN CITIES NEEDS when the water was above flood stage in degrees rangingall the way from thirty-five feet up to the maximum.The great majority of these floods were due to heavyrainfalls in the Ohio basin. The great jlpod in March, 1913, was due to excessiverainfall upon a surface…
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