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Excerpt from The Effects of Barge Traffic on Suspended Sediment and Turbidity in the Illinois River: For United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Rock Island Field Office Ecological Services 1830 Second Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois 61201 Prepared December 3, 1980
Figure 1. The graph reflects the steady increase in tonnage o shipped on the Illinois River and Des Plaines River between Grafton and Lockport after completion of the Illinois Waterway in the l93o's. Source: Starrett (1972) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
