McPhee spent months trying to understand the centuries of engineering prowess that have gone into trying to control the Mississippi, especially the creation of structures much in the news today, like Old River Control and the Morganza Floodway, which was opened over the weekend to allow floodwaters to course down through the Atchafalaya basin.
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The weir, which is used to control river levels, lies upstream of Hampton Court Palace and was built in 1883.
Among these, Brazil is exceptional in that many of its dams also serve to control river levels and provide irrigation, thus making them hard to regulate satisfactorily if privatised.
David Plunkett Black , BEM (Edinburgh) -For services to the Control of River Pollution in Scotland.
In addition the goal is to reduce and control these diseases: schistosomiasis, river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Sprint now owns just over fifty percent of Clearwire after Craig McCaw sold all other shareholders down the river a few months ago by selling his control stock.
"This energy crisis will not spiral out of control or be brought under control by what happens to the Snake River dams, " said Scott Bosse of Idaho Rivers United.
Except for guerrilla kayaking by river lovers such as Raymond and others in the expedition club, the concrete-lined river has been strictly off-limits since the Depression era because the river is technically an Army Corps of Engineers flood control channel, officials said.
The Beijing News backs a proposal by the capital's mayor to follow the example of the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions and set up a joint air pollution control system between Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
It recommends introducing an approach similar to air-traffic control to speed up pier use and co-ordinate river boats better with other modes of travel.
He says he has tried to travel down to the Irrawaddy River delta but was turned back by police, who want to control the situation there.
The bus swerved on a stretch of road, lost control and plummeted 400 metres from a cliff into the Sunkosi river, police told the BBC.
Wetland loss has been caused by the Army Corps of Engineers channeling the Mississippi for flood control, with the result that all the sediment in the river is being lost over the continental shelf.
The concerns of people living along the river have been soothed by the government's insistence that all is under control.
Its Ohio River basin water-quality trading project will allow those facing high pollution-control costs to buy reduction credits from those whose costs are lower.
Concentration for most pollutants remains high despite legislation passed in 2002 to control emissions in ten of China's biggest cities and several river valleys that provide industrial arteries into the interior from the heavily populated coasts.
U.S. convoys crossing the Sava River are rolling through some of Bosnia's most hotly contested lands, now firmly under the control of NATO Implementation Force troops.
It has consolidated its control of the town's two airports, while the Ugandans have withdrawn across the nearby river Tshopo.
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