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E. S. Bellasis
  • Abrupt changes in streams, 28.
  • Alterations in a channel, upstream effect, 4.
  • Aqueduct, Kali Nadi, 149.
  • Available rainfall, 9.
  • Bank protection, 60.
  • — — artificial weeds, 70.
  • — — berms, 70.
  • — — bushing, 68.
  • — — fascining, 66.
  • — — heavy stone pitching with apron, 71.
  • — — on the Adige, 67.
  • — — reinforced concrete, 70.
  • — — rolls of wire-netting, 70, 140.
  • — — staking, 69.
  • — — trees, 68.
  • — — twig revetment, 68.
  • — — Villa system, 69.
  • Banks, 92.
  • — Bell’s guide, 137.
  • — continuous lining of, 64.
  • — dimensions of, 93.
  • — guide, 137.
  • — side slopes of, 92.
  • Barrage of the Nile, Assiut, 117.
  • Bars, river, 203.
  • Bed, protection of, 58.
  • — — Villa system, 59.
  • Bell’s guide banks, 137.
  • Bends, effect of, 44.
  • — short cuts of, 44.
  • Bengal Dooars Railway, bridge and floods, 139.
  • Bifurcation of a channel, 53.
  • Birmingham water supply, 173.
  • Borrow-pits in bed of channel, 53.
  • Breakwaters, converging, 207.
  • Bridges, 132.
  • — foundations or floor, 132.
  • — on Indian rivers, 134.
  • — piers and abutments, 132.
  • — protection of, 137.
  • — at Wazirabad, 134.
  • British Rainfall Organisation, 9.
  • Canalisation of rivers, 84.
  • Canals, 92.
  • — fall, 113.
  • — headworks, 54.
  • — navigation, 93.
  • — rapid, 113.
  • — Ship, 95.
  • Catchment area, “yield,” 9.
  • Channel, alterations in, 4.
  • Chanoine falling shutters, 121.
  • Chenab River at Shershah, 210.
  • Choice of types of work, 3.
  • Closures of streams, Colorado River, 5.
  • Ship canals, 95.
  • Shutters, self-acting, Switzerland and Bavaria, 127.
  • Silting and scouring, 27.
  • Silt and scour, action at bends, 42.
  • — — — on sides of channel, 40.
  • — — effect of regulator or movable weir, 49.
  • — — in the Sirhind Canal, 32, 54.
  • — — increasing or reducing, 48.
  • — — materials carried in suspension, 3.
  • — — methods of investigation, 33.
  • — — practical formulÆ and figures, 37.
  • — — production of, 48.
  • — — rolled materials, 29.
  • — — sand separator, 34.
  • — — scrapers or harrows, 48.
  • — clay and sand, 36.
  • — deposit, production of, 51.
  • — in river Sutlej, 35.
  • — in river Tay, 35.
  • — quantity and distribution of, 35.
  • — upstream of weirs, 103.
  • Sidhnai Canal, dam, 117.
  • Sirhind Canal, silt and scour in, 32, 54.
  • Slips in embankments, 177.
  • Sluice gates, Stoney’s, 119.
  • Sluices, 102.
  • Small streams, floods in, 141.
  • Soundings, 21.
  • Spurs or groynes, 58, 60, 61.
  • Stream gauges, 19.
  • — diversions of, 73.
  • — general tendencies of, 45.
  • — information concerning intermittent, 25.
  • — — — small, 24, 25.
  • — overflow, 46.
  • — shifting, 20, 47.
  • Sudbury River, Massachusetts, available rainfall, 12.
  • Surface slope observations, 22.
  • Survey of a stream, 21.
  • Sutlej River, silt in, 35.
  • Syphons, 132, 135.
  • Tay River, silt in, 35.
  • Teddington, weir at, 119.
  • Tidal estuaries, works in, 198.
  • — river, diagrammatic route-guide, 196.
  • — rivers, 192.
  • — works in, 196.
  • Tide-gauges, 192.
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    FOOTNOTES:

    1 Min. Proc. Inst. C.E.

    2 Engineering News.

    3 EncyclopÆdia Britannica.

    4 The paper by Spring—in size it is a book—will repay perusal by engineers engaged on railway bridges over large shifting rivers. London Agents, Constable & Co.

    5 Hydraulics with Working Tables. Spon, 1912.

    6 Irrigation canals are dealt with in Irrigation Works (Spon, 1913).

    7 See also Appendix A.

    8 The regulator runs across the canal head; the under-sluices are a continuation of the weir, between the divide wall and the regulator.

    9 See also Appendix B.

    10 On Indian canals the term “regulation” is applied to the control of the discharge at the regulators or off-take works.

    11 See also Appendix B.

    12 Irrigation Works, Chap. I., Art. 4.

    13 Min. Proc. Inst. C.E., vols. lx. and lxxxv.

    14 Rivers and Canals, Harcourt.

    15 Rivers and Canals, Harcourt.

    16 Rivers and Canals, Harcourt.

    17 The foundations of piers and abutments should be deep enough to allow of this.

    18 Report on the Revised Estimate, Upper Jhelum Canal.

    19 Revised Estimate of the Upper Jhelum, Upper Chenab, and Lower Bari Doab Canals.

    20 See also Note on p. 161.

    21 The height of a wave is supposed to be 1·4v(fetch), but this allows nothing for splashing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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