Engineering methods for the reclamation of overflowed lands in Illinois . FIG. 1 Dynamiting stumps and muck ditch on levee base. 36 A muck ditch was required wherever the height of the leveewas ten feet or greater. This muck ditch was constructed with dyna-mite, using one-half pound sticks in holes bored one foot apart onthe center line of the levee. The cost of blowing the muck ditchwas fourteen dollars per hundred FIG-. 2 Muck levee was constructed with a floating dipper dredgehaving a two and one-half yard dipper. The dredge began work on thelevee April 23, 1911, and was ac
Engineering methods for the reclamation of overflowed lands in Illinois . FIG. 1 Dynamiting stumps and muck ditch on levee base. 36 A muck ditch was required wherever the height of the leveewas ten feet or greater. This muck ditch was constructed with dyna-mite, using one-half pound sticks in holes bored one foot apart onthe center line of the levee. The cost of blowing the muck ditchwas fourteen dollars per hundred FIG-. 2 Muck levee was constructed with a floating dipper dredgehaving a two and one-half yard dipper. The dredge began work on thelevee April 23, 1911, and was actually at work on same about eightmonths. In Uovember, while bringing the levee to the requiredheight, the dredge sunk. After the dredge had been raised, it wasnecessary to remove it from the work for repairs and complete thelevee by hand. This work was not finished until the spring of 1912. 57
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