文档介绍：ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 94
Inland Navigation:
Locks, Dams, and
Channels
Bruce L. McCartney, Chair
John e
. Lee
Mark Lindgren
Frank Neilson
Published by
J§C/*C American Society
^•9lME of Civil Engineers
1801 Alexander Bell Drive
Reston, Virginia 20191 -4400
Abstract::
Inland Navigation: Locks, Dams, and Channels (ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Prac-
tice No. 94) was prepared by a mittee of the mittee, which is part of
the Waterways, Ports, Coastal, and Ocean Division. The Manual provides information on plan-
ning, design, construction, and operation of the US waterways used by barge traffic. Most of
the es from design criteria and more than 100 years of experience of the US
Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps has built more than 220 lock and dam projects on US
waterways and maintains more than 25,000 miles of inland navigation channels. This Manual
also includes an inventory of the Corps Lock and Dam projects and six case histories.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Inland navigation : locks, dams, and channels / Bruce L. McCartney... [et al.].
p. cm.—(ASCE manuals and reports on engineering practice ; no. 94)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
ISBN 0-7844-0320-1
1. Inland navigation—United States. I. McCartney, Bruce L. II. Series.
1998
627'.1'0973—dc21 98-13187
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