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OverviewJohn Thompson provides a historical account of the development process, sectoral conflicts, and outcomes related to major alterations of land and water relationships, as well as habit changes, caused in the valley downstream from Peoria by the large-scale reclamations for agriculture and the post-1900 intrusion of large volumes of waste water from the Sanitary and Ship Canal of Chicago. Thompson examines the history of the land drainage movement and the inevitable environmental changes caused by the intensification of urban and rural land use in the Midwest between sixty and one hundred years ago. He shows how institutions of land drainage were organized and operated and how the nascent drainage engineering and contracting sectors functioned. Focusing on the lower valley, Thompson also deals with drainage as it affects the nation, the Midwest, Chicago, and downstate Illinois. Thompson is the first to address the array of interrelated physical, economic, and political circumstances caused by the development of competing and incompatible uses for the waters and the floodplain of the Illinois River when large-scale land reclamation and great volumes of water from Lake Michigan and Chicago changed land and water relationships, destroyed a major riverine fishing industry, and severely damaged renowned waterfowl hunting grounds. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John ThompsonPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press Edition: 3rd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 18.10cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 21.30cm Weight: 0.574kg ISBN: 9780809323982ISBN 10: 0809323982 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 31 December 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsWetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890-1930 is the only detailed account of the demise of natural wetlands along the Illinois River and the development of levee systems and their effect on wetlands. It is one of the most superior scholarly works I have reviewed. -Robert Mohlenbrock Author InformationJohn Thompson is a professor emeritus of geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the coauthor of The Tule Breakers: The Story of the California Dredge (with E. A. Dutra) and the author of Flood Chronologies and Aftermaths Affecting the Lower Sacramento River, 1878-1909. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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