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Project Gutenberg's The Passaic Flood of 1903, by Marshall Ora Leighton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Passaic Flood of 1903 Author: Marshall Ora Leighton Release Date: November 20, 2006 [EBook #19878] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PASSAIC FLOOD OF 1903 *** Produced by Chuck Greif, Mark C. Orton, Linda McKeown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Water-Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 92 Series M, General Hydrographic Investigations, 8 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE PASSAIC FLOOD OF 1903 BY MARSHALL ORA LEIGHTON [Illustration] WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1904 CONTENTS. Page. Letter of transmittal 7 Introduction 9 Precipitation 11 Descent of flood 14 Highland tributaries and Central Basin 14 Flood at Macopin dam 15 Flood at Beattie's dam, Little Falls 16 Flood flow over Dundee dam 17 Damages 23 General statements 23 Highland tributaries 23 Ramapo River 23 Pequanac and Wanaque rivers 24 Central Basin 25 Lower Valley 25 Paterson 26 Passaic and vicinity 27 Preventive measures 28 General discussion 28 Lower valley improvement
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