Levee
| Author | : Paul Otremba |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781945588419 |
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Poems that balance beauty and irony in their interrogation of urgency versus importance.
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Hydraulics of Levee Overtopping
| Author | : Lin Li |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 445 |
| Release | : 2020-09-20 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1000195236 |
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Earthen levees are extensively used to protect the population and infrastructure from periodic floods and high water due to storm surges. The causes of failure of levees include overtopping, surface erosion, internal erosion, and slope instability. Overtopping may occur during periods of flooding due to insufficient freeboard. The most problematic situation involves the levee being overtopped by both surge and waves when the surge level exceeds the levee crest elevation with accompanying wave overtopping. Overtopping of levees produces fast-flowing, turbulent water velocities on the landward-side slope that can potentially damage the protective grass covering and expose the underlying soil to erosion. If overtopping continues long enough, the erosion may eventually result in loss of levee crest elevation and possibly breaching of the protective structure. Hence, protecting levees from erosion by surge overflow and wave overtopping is necessary to assure a viable and safe levee system. This book presents a cutting-edge approach to understanding overtopping hydraulics under negative free board of earthen levees, and to the study of levee reinforcing methods. Combining soil erosion test, full-scale laboratory overtopping hydraulics test, and numerical modeling for the turbulent overtopping hydraulics. It provides an analysis that integrates the mechanical and hydraulic processes governing levee overtopping occurrences and engineering approaches to reinforce overtopped levees. Topics covered: surge overflow, wave overtopping and their combination, full-scale hydraulic tests, erosion tests, overtopping hydraulics, overtopping discharge, and turbulent analysis. This is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers working on levee design, water resource engineering, hydraulic engineering, and coastal engineering, and for professionals in the field of civil and environmental engineering, and natural hazard analysis.
Lords of the Levee
| Author | : Lloyd Wendt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780810123205 |
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Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence In the early twentieth century, John Coughlin and Mike Kenna ruled Chicago's First Ward, the lucrative lakefront territory and nerve center of the city. It was one of the most infamous havens for vice in the entire country, home to gambling palaces with marble floors and mahogany bars, to a mini-city of thugs and prostitutes and down-and-outers, to dives and saloons of every description and a few beyond description. In short, the First was a gold mine. In a city where money talked, it made boisterous Bathhouse John and the laconic Hinky Dink Kenna the most powerful men in town. This classic of Chicago-style journalism traces the careers of these two operators as they rose to the top of the city's political world.
Lanterns On The Levee
| Author | : William Alexander Percy |
| Publisher | : Knopf |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2012-09-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307820270 |
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Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885–1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life—although his life was exciting and varied—but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. The 1973 introduction by Walker Percy—Will's nephew and adopted son—recalls the strong character and easy grace of "the most extraordinary man I have ever known."
Bonfires on the Levee
| Author | : Johnette Downing |
| Publisher | : Pelican Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 2020-11-02 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781455625918 |
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Louisiana author and illustrator Johnette Downing captures charming holiday traditions in this counting book for emerging readers. From one to ten the images of holiday bonfires and Christmas practices along the levees fill the pages. The vibrant illustrations created in cut paper and foam collage enhance the text, offering little ones further engagement in this soon to be classic Christmas tale of waiting for Papa Noel along the levee.
Possums Run Amok
| Author | : Lora Lafayette |
| Publisher | : Chin Music Press |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 2022-03-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1634059948 |
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2023 Oregon Book Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction Possums Run Amok is a rollicking, slyly hilarious, at times uncomfortable and dark memoir wherein the author and two friends are nicknamed The Possumettes. With fearless candor, Lora Lafayette recounts her life from a delinquent, late 1970s punk rock adolescence through a crooked, manic, transatlantic path to adulthood and her eventual terrifying descent into schizophrenia. Whip smart, daring, and inventive, Lafayette navigates the harsh realities of being a risk-taking adventurous young woman while seeking to wrest all the wild joy she can out of life. Her story reveals how blurry the line can be between real and unreal, choice and force. It lays bare the startling lack of empathy and services in society for those in crisis. Her voice is singular, her language full of shining unconventional metaphor. Deeply uncomfortable, laugh-out-loud funny, and devastatingly moving, Possums Run Amok is equal parts challenging and entertaining.
Words Whispered in Water
| Author | : Sandy Rosenthal |
| Publisher | : Mango Media Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2020-08-11 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1642503282 |
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“Anyone who is interested in Hurricane Katrina, and in America’s failing infrastructure, will want to read this book . . . a fast-paced narrative.” —Scott G. Knowles, Drexel University 2020 Nautilus Silver Winner In the aftermath of one of the worst disasters in US history, Words Whispered in Water tells the story of one woman’s fight, against all odds, to expose a mammoth federal agency—and win. In 2005, the entire world watched as a major US city was nearly wiped off the map. The levees ruptured and New Orleans drowned. But while newscasters attributed the New Orleans flood to “natural catastrophes” and other types of disasters, citizen investigator Sandy Rosenthal set out to expose the true culprit and compel the media and government to tell the truth. This is her story. When the protective steel flood-walls broke, the Army Corps of Engineers—with cooperation from big media—turned the blame elsewhere. In the chaotic aftermath, Rosenthal heroically exposes the federal agency’s egregious design errors and changes the narrative surrounding the New Orleans flood. This engaging and revealing tale of man versus nature and man versus man is a horror story, a mystery, and David and Goliath story all in one. “Reveals what it takes to hold the powerful to account.” —Publishers Weekly “There are only a few civilians that fight like real warriors. Sandy Rosenthal is one of them.” —Russel L. Honoré, Lieutenant General, United States Army (Ret.)
Fire on the Levee
| Author | : Jared Fishman |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 2023-04-25 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 0369722671 |
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“A riveting tale told with care and expertise.” —David Simon, creator of The Wire The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina–era New Orleans. In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the Justice Department when a file landed on his desk. That folder contained two items: a story from The Nation magazine examining a mysterious death in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and an autopsy report for a man named Henry Glover, whose charred remains were found in a burned-out car two weeks after the storm. The autopsy report, bafflingly, listed no cause of death. But according to The Nation story, a gravely wounded Glover had last been seen in a car driven by a New Orleans police officer. Intrigued despite the lack of evidence, Fishman set out to learn what happened to Glover. He flew to New Orleans and teamed up with a rookie FBI agent, and together they started to track down anyone with information about what had happened to Glover on that day. Fire on the Levee tells the story of a young idealistic prosecutor determined to bring the truth to light. The case would lead to major reforms in the New Orleans Police Department and ultimately change our understanding of race, policing and justice in post-Katrina New Orleans and beyond.
An Introduction to Special Features of Levees
| Author | : J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A. |
| Publisher | : Guyer Partners |
| Total Pages | : 77 |
| Release | : 2017-12-14 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : |
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Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in design and construction of levees for flood protection and other water resources projects. Here is what is discussed: 1. PIPELINES AND OTHER UTILITY LINES CROSSING LEVEES 2. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR PIPELINES CROSSING THROUGH OR UNDER LEVEES 3. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR PIPELINES CROSSING OVER LEVEES 4. PIPE SELECTION 5. ANTISEEPAGE DEVICES 6. CLOSURE DEVICES 7. CAMBER 8. INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS 9. ACCESS ROADS 10. RAMPS 11. LEVEE ENLARGEMENTS 12. JUNCTION WITH CONCRETE CLOSURE STRUCTURES 13. OTHER SPECIAL FEATURES.
An Introduction to Special Features of Levees for Professional Engineers
| Author | : J. Paul Guyer |
| Publisher | : Guyer Partners |
| Total Pages | : 49 |
| Release | : 2023-09-13 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : |
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Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in levee design and construction. Here is what is discussed: 1. PIPELINES AND OTHER UTILITY LINES CROSSING LEVEES, 2. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR PIPELINES CROSSING THROUGH OR UNDER LEVEES, 3. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR PIPELINES CROSSING OVER LEVEES, 4. PIPE SELECTION, 5. ANTISEEPAGE DEVICES, 6. CLOSURE DEVICES, 7. CAMBER, 8. INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS, 9. ACCESS ROADS, 10. RAMPS, 11. LEVEE ENLARGEMENTS, 12. JUNCTION WITH CONCRETE CLOSURE STRUCTURES, 13. OTHER SPECIAL FEATURE.
