. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 46 BULLETIN 71, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUKE. Levees. The levee on this tract has been raised to a height of about 7 feet above mean tide level. The work was done with an orange-peel-bucket dredge, with a 70- to<n boom. This allowed a berm of about 20 feet between the levee and the. CANAL^ ,del. lOOO 0 1000 5000 10000 FEET Fig. 14.—Sketch map of area No. 6, Poydras, La., showing ditch and levee systems. canal. As shown in figure 14. all levee canals are on the outside, as the mate- rial was considered to be
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 46 BULLETIN 71, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUKE. Levees. The levee on this tract has been raised to a height of about 7 feet above mean tide level. The work was done with an orange-peel-bucket dredge, with a 70- to<n boom. This allowed a berm of about 20 feet between the levee and the. CANAL^ ,del. lOOO 0 1000 5000 10000 FEET Fig. 14.—Sketch map of area No. 6, Poydras, La., showing ditch and levee systems. canal. As shown in figure 14. all levee canals are on the outside, as the mate- rial was considered to be too soft to permit placing of the canal inside the dis- trict, and thus use it as a reservoir canal. By locating these canals on the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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