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Document Type
Research
Abstract
A year ago this spring the city of Des Moines cut a new channel and mouth for the Raccoon River, causing it to change its course for a distance of about half a mile and to empty into the Des Moines River a little more than half that distance below its old mouth. The bulk of the excavated material was piled upon the south bank of the new channel to form a levee about fifteen feet high, sixty feet wide at the base, and twelve feet wide at the top, with a space of twelve feet intervening between the foot of the embankment and the river.
Publication Date
1915
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
22
Issue
1
First Page
135
Last Page
142
Copyright
©1915 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Thone, Frank E. A.
(1915)
"Pioneer Plants on a New Levee,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 22(1), 135-142.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol22/iss1/20