List of Figures; About the Author; Preface and Author's Acknowledgments; Part One: The Mississippi River Project; The Mississippi River Problem; The Complexity of the Mississippi River; The Economics of Flood Control; Early Attempts at Flood Control; Federal Intervention; The Failure of the Levees; The Flood of 1927; Crevasses and Failures; Impact of the Flood; The End of Levees-Only; The Jadwin Plan; Competing Visions of Flood Control; Jadwin versus Potter; The Politics of Flood Control; The Flood Control Act of 1928; Part Two: The Failure of Politics; Faltering Steps
General Jadwin's BoardSubordination of the Mississippi River Commission; River Experiments; Limits of the Project; A Push for Progress; Collapse of the Jadwin Plan; A Close Call; Opposition to the Floodways; Suspension of the Jadwin Plan; Review of the Jadwin Plan; Progress and Delays; Part Three: The Troubleshooter; Ferguson; Man of the Maine; Logistics Expert; Supplanted; Candidate for Chief of Engineers; Continued Research in Dredging; The Cutoff Plan; Origin of the Anti-Cutoff Policy; Erosion of Opposition; The Yucatan Cutoff; Ferguson and the Cutoff Plan; The Cutoff Debate
Scientific ProofPart Four: The Cutoffs; Experimental Dredging; Fergie Fixes a River; A Modified Plan of Work; The First Cutoffs; The Atchafalaya Basin; Continued Progress; Proving the Cutoffs; The Greenville Bends; Initial Results; The Overton Act; The Floodways; Three More Cutoffs; Eliminating a Floodway; The Flood of 1937; Planned Cutoffs; Opposition to Cutoffs Continues; Tyler Takes Over; A Revised Project; Epilogue: End of the Cutoffs; A New Cutoff Plan; Modern Rectification Schemes; The Cutoffs in Retrospect; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Archival Sources; Congressional Reports
CorrespondenceCourt Decisions; Executive Documents; Interviews; Legislation; Manuscripts; Periodicals; Technical Reports; Theses; Web Pages; Secondary Sources; Index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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