SOME EFFECTS OF MAN-MADE CONTROLS IN THE UPPER REACHES OF A SMALL DRAINAGE BASIN |
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| Authors: | Adnan Shindala Melville S Priest |
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| Institution: | Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering;and Director, Water Resources Research Institute, Mississippi State University, State College, Mississippi. |
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| Abstract: | Governmental agencies have been instrumental in the construction of numerous dams and other control structures in the small watersheds of the State of Mississippi. Although some of the consequences are predictable, there are some effects which are not yet well defined. This paper concerns the physical effects of such works on a particular stream and its channel. As was anticipated, peak discharges appear to have been somewhat reduced. Changes in channel cross-section depend, to some extent, upon location along the stream. However, there appears to have been a narrowing of the channel in that portion of the stream for which cross-sections were available. |
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| Keywords: | erosion flood control channel characteristics |
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