Engineering for Land Drainage - A Manual for Laying Out and Constructing Drains for the Improvement of Agricultural Lands #267034

This brief treatise on drainage engineering is intended for the use of those who are charged with the responsibility of making plans for and executing drainage improvements. It puts the experience and practice of years into a form which will be available to others who wish to quickly acquire the principles and practice of land drainage.<br><br>Much more might be said on some of the subjects, but the busy man of to-day prefers to have the information he seeks in concise form rather than to select what he desires from a more voluminous work.<br><br>The hydraulics of drainage cannot be computed with as much accuracy as may be done in some other branches of engineering, owing to the uncertain data available and the variable conditions which must be met. For this reason formulas of less refinement than are thought essential to some other hydraulic work may be used in making drainage computations. Good judgment should always be exercised in applying data to formulas in the class of work treated of in this book. The practical adaptation of accurate and systematic methods in dealing with land drainage questions is regarded by the author as highly essential to the successful prosecution of such work.<br><br>Complicated and merely theoretical engineering is to be avoided.