. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN. Contribution from Office of Experiment Stations, A. C. True, Director. July 13, 1914. (PROFESSIONAL PAPER.) REPORT UPON THE BLACK AND BOGGY SWAMPS DRAINAGE DISTRICT, HAMPTON AND JASPER COUNTIES, S. C. By F. G. Eason, Drainage Engineer. INTRODUCTION. While in some respects all the swamp lands of the Atlantic Coastal Plain are alike, the problems to be met in draining the lands differ somewhat from one section to another. In Georgia and the Caro- linas are many areas that have little slope as a whole, but in de
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN. Contribution from Office of Experiment Stations, A. C. True, Director. July 13, 1914. (PROFESSIONAL PAPER.) REPORT UPON THE BLACK AND BOGGY SWAMPS DRAINAGE DISTRICT, HAMPTON AND JASPER COUNTIES, S. C. By F. G. Eason, Drainage Engineer. INTRODUCTION. While in some respects all the swamp lands of the Atlantic Coastal Plain are alike, the problems to be met in draining the lands differ somewhat from one section to another. In Georgia and the Caro- linas are many areas that have little slope as a whole, but in detail are somewhat roiling. From the higher parts, scattered among the flat open woodlands and the timbered bays and branches in which water stands the greater part of the year, the timber has been cleared and small farms have been established. The watercourses, which are broad, shallow,, winding depressions, with no marked channel, are usually filled with growing timber and thick underbrush. The topographical conditions require that these lands be drained in units of considerable size, necessitating the cooperation of many landowners. In order that a few owners may not prevent a greater number from reclaiming their wet lands, when the few can not be excluded from the district to be formed, most States have passed general laws providing for the organization of drainage districts and an equitable distribution of the cost. In accordance with such a statute enacted in 1911 by the Legislature of South Carolina, the Black and Boggy Swamps drainage district was organized in March, 1912. Because the Black and Boggy Swamps drainage district is in many respects typical of other areas in the same and bordering States, and because it is the first district organized under the above law, and as the landowners are naturally cautious about beginning an unfamiliar kind of undertaking, Drainage Investigations of the Office of Experi- ment Stations, United States Department of Agriculture, at the
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