UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 304 



Contribution from the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering 

 LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director 



Washington, D. C. PROFESSIONAL PAPER November 19, 1915 



[Revision of Office of Experiment Stations Bulletin 243] 



LAND DRAINAGE BY MEANS OF 

 PUMPS 



By 



S. M. WOODWARD, Drainage Engineer 



Revised with special reference to the Upper Mississippi Valley by C. W. OKEY, 

 Senior Drainage Engineer 



CONTENTS 



Introduction , 



Effectiveness of Drainage Reclamation . 

 Drainage Pumping in Northern Europe . 

 Past Experience in the United States . . 

 Drainage by Pumping in the Mississippi 

 Valley 



Size of Pumping Districts 



Levees 



Page 

 1 

 2 

 4 

 6 



Interior Drainage Ditches 13 



Page 

 Drainage by Pumping in the Mississippi 

 Valley — Continued. 



Gravity Sluiceways 19 



Design of Pumping Plant 20 



Amount and Cost of Pumping .... 49 



Operation and Maintenance .... S3 



Present Status of Drainage by Pumping 56 



Summary 56 



WASHINGTON 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1915 



