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BULLETIN 71, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUKE. 



Levees. 



The levee on this tract has been raised to a height of about 7 feet above mean 

 tide level. The work was done with an orange-peel-bucket dredge, with a 70- 

 to<n boom. This allowed a berm of about 20 feet between the levee and the 



CANAL^ 



G.F.P.,del. 



lOOO 1000 5000 10000 FEET 



Fig. 14. — Sketch map of area No. 6, Poydras, La., showing ditch and levee systems. 



canal. As shown in figure 14. all levee canals are on the outside, as the mate- 

 rial was considered to be too soft to permit placing of the canal inside the dis- 

 trict, and thus use it as a reservoir canal. By locating these canals on the 



