Record Details
page 62
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 62 |
| Relation | Columbia River |
| Date | 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 207.592 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | construction of works to control floods not only prevents losses which would otherwise be sustained, but in many instances converts a liability into an asset. Floods in the Columbia River system do not present the frequently recurring menace characteristic of the Mississippi and its principal tributaries, but flood damage is suffered and many protective and controlling works have been constructed. These include channel improvements to facilitate the passage of flood waters, levees, bank... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1521 |
