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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

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