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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Galveston District | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Bobb, William H. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Boland, Robert A. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Banchetti, Allen J. | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-18T15:21:57Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-18T15:21:57Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 1973-08 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/13209 | - |
| dc.description | Technical Report | - |
| dc.description | Abstract: The Houston Ship Channel model, a fixed-bed model constructed to linear scale ratios of 1:600 horizontally and 1:60 vertically, reproduced a portion of the Gulf of Mexico adjacent to the Galveston Harbor Entrance, the Galveston Bay complex, including Trinity Bay in its entirety, East Bay, a portion of West Bay, the Houston Ship Channel to its upstream boundary in the City of Houston, Texas, and Buffalo Bayou from the Houston Ship Channel turning basin to the confluence of White Oak Bayou. The model was equipped with necessary appurtenances for the accurate reproduction and measurement of tides, tidal currents, salinity intrusion, freshwater inflow, density effects, shoaling, and other important prototype phenomena. The purpose of the model study was to determine if the present cost of maintenance dredging can be reduced by proposed plans involving channel realignments, partial or complete diking of connecting bays, sediment traps, dikes in Galveston Bay, local contractions, enlargements, and other remedial measures. Model verification tests were conducted to make ceriain that the model hydraulic and salinity regimens were in satisfactory agreement with those of the prototype. The agreements attained between similar model and prototype values were considered satisfactory. | - |
| dc.publisher | Hydraulics Laboratory (U.S.) | - |
| dc.publisher | Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) | - |
| dc.relation | http://acwc.sdp.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/1034144 | - |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Technical report (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station) ; H-73-12 rept.1. | - |
| dc.rights | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. | - |
| dc.source | This Digital Resource was created from scans of the Print Resource | - |
| dc.subject | Galveston Bay (Tex.) | - |
| dc.subject | Houston Ship Channel | - |
| dc.subject | Hydraulic models | - |
| dc.subject | Hydraulic regimen | - |
| dc.subject | Salinity | - |
| dc.subject | Bays | - |
| dc.subject | Inlets | - |
| dc.subject | Hydrodynamics | - |
| dc.subject | Channels | - |
| dc.title | Houston Ship Channel, Galveston Bay, Texas. Report 1, Hydraulic and salinity verification : hydraulic model investigation | - |
| dc.type | Report | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | Technical Report | |
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| TR-HL-73-12.pdf | 6.31 MB | Adobe PDF |  View/Open |