Report Upon the Chicago Drainage CanalU.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - 54 páginas |
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artificial channel average Calumet area Calumet district Calumet region Calumet River capacity Chicago Drainage Canal Chicago River Chicago sewage Chief of Engineers city of Chicago connected construction contact filters cubic feet discharge district of Chicago diversion drainage area drained effluent estimated Evanston feet of water feet per minute feet per second flow Fullerton avenue future greater Hyde Park Illinois and Michigan Illinois rivers improvement inches increase intake intercepting sewers intermittent sand filters investigation issue_ Lake Calumet Lake Michigan lake water land Lawrence Lockport methods of sewage Michigan Canal navigation interests necessary North Branch organic matter Plaines and Illinois Plaines River pollution population portion present pumping stations purification Robey street RUDOLPH HERING sanitary district Secretary Secretary of War septic tanks sewage disposal sewage inoffensive shore South Fork sprinkling filters square miles storm water territory tion tributary tunnels Valley water per minute
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Página 39 - An act making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Página 40 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission...
Página 39 - States outside established harbor lines or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal...
Página 17 - The navigation of the River St. Lawrence, ascending and descending, from the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude, where it ceases to form the boundary between the two countries, from, to, and into the sea, shall forever remain free and open for the purposes of commerce to the citizens of the United States, subject to any laws and regulations of Great Britain, or of the Dominion of Canada, not inconsistent with such privilege of free navigation.
Página 42 - ... Chicago. 3. That the United States is requested to aid in the construction of a channel not less than 160 feet wide and 22 feet deep, with such a grade as to give a velocity of...
Página 32 - If the population of the district draining into such channel shall at any time exceed 1,500,000, such channel shall be made and kept of such size and in such condition that it will produce and maintain at all times a continuous flow of not less than 20,000 cubic feet of water per minute for each 100,000 of the population of such district...
Página 7 - That it shall be the duty of all persons owning, operating, and tending the drawbridges now built, or which may hereafter be built across the navigable rivers and other waters of the United States, to open, or cause to be opened, the draws of such bridges under such rules and regulations as in the opinion of the Secretary of War the public interests require to govern the opening of drawbridges for the passage of vessels and other water crafts, and such rules and regulations, when so made and published,...
Página 32 - ... of the population of the district drained thereby, and the same shall be kept and maintained of such size and in such condition that the water thereof shall be neither offensive or injurious to the health of any of the people of this State...
Página 4 - And the canal commissioners, if they shall find at any time that an additional supply of water has been added to either of said rivers by any drainage district or districts, to maintain a depth of not less than...
Página 41 - War reserves the right to close and discharge through said channel or to modify it to such extent as may be demanded by navigation and property interests along said Chicago River and its south branch.