Henry H. Persons
Published: 2018-01-29
Total Pages: 42
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Excerpt from Water Resources of the State of New York: With a Compliments of Conservation Commission State of New York In 1902 a special act Of the Legislature created the water Storage Commission. That Commission was directed to make surveys and investigations to determine the causes of the over flow of the various rivers and water courses Of the State, and to determine what, if anything, could be done to prevent such overflow. The conditions which gave rise to the creation of that Commission were the constantly recurring floods which appeared to be unusually frequent about that time. The seri ous nature and wide extent of the floods occurring at more or less frequent intervals in a large number of streams throughout the State had long been a source of anxiety to the residents Of the flooded districts owing to the injuries and dangers occasioned bv the sudden overflow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
