United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 7147 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...Senator Sheppard. There are some large buildings there where the washing is very dangerous? Mr. Bliss. The canal bank, from the hospital, is 40 feet. Senator Sheppard. The levee would go between that building and the canal? Mr. Bliss. I think that a very shallow retaining wall would hold that material back and stop the sloughing, inasmuch as this bench indicating on map has been formed. Col. Taylor. There is a very marked bench In those places indicating on map? Mr. Bliss. From Shreveport Avenue up to the turn of the Seventh Street Road is the worst. Col. Winsi.ow. That only goes in, according to the scale, about 25 feet. Col. Abbot. If you had some reinforced concrete along there, would not that make a scour? Col. Taylor. It seems to me It would be better to apply some loose one-man stone. Mr. Bliss. Would not that have a tendence to slough off and go down Into the canal? Col. Taylor. It looks as though that bench was marked enough so that they would hold. Mr. Bliss. It might be at places, but I doubt if that is so all along. It seems to me that we could go down there 4 or 5 feet in that clay and it would hold, and that is all the people are asking. In the world--just to confine the canal there In some way. Would it not be possible just to cofferdam that water up and put some reinforced concrete Hiere? Col. Taylor. I do not think you would have to cofferdam it at all. Mr. Bliss. We have high tides there, particularly In the summer and spring, and they just saturate that top earth and it sloughs off and drops in. From the navigation standpoint there is not much to be said, further than that the one direct saving to navigation would be in the amount of earth that sloughs off and finds its way into the channel and has to be dredged out. All that the citizens ...