Regulation of Rivers without Embankments: as Applied in the Training Works at the Headwaters of the Rangoon River, Burma (locally known as the Myitmaka Training Works)

Abstract

THE practice of the science of river training and regulation is beset by so many difficulties, and success has often to be achieved in the face of obstacles and impediments of so intractable a character, that the suggestion that a river may be left to effect its own training is, at first sight, a little startling. One may even experience a slight feeling of incredulity in glancing at the title of the book forming the subject of this notice, which will be intensified, indeed, when it is found that the author includes within the term “embankments” all artificial aids to bank formation, with the exception of certain sticks of bamboo. At the same time, it must be observed that as the object of training works is to produce embankments of a permanent character, the signification of the word in the title is particular and limited.

Regulation of Rivers without Embankments: as Applied in the Training Works at the Headwaters of the Rangoon River, Burma (locally known as the Myitmaka Training Works).

By F. A. Leete, assisted by G. C. Cheyne. Pp. xii + 122 + 36 plates + 10 maps. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1924.) 30s. net.