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President DarnalIv — Any further discussion? If not I will 

 ask Mr. Brooks to close the discussion. 



Mr. Brooks— I think that Mr. Lee's question was answered 

 by Dr. Headlee. The obligation or the necessity of this circu- 

 lation of the water in the ditches is limiited to such of the diked 

 areas as will not support killifish. 



President Darnai^l, — Before announcing the next paper I 

 wiould like to make tw^O' announcements. The appointments for 

 the Nominating Committee are as follows : Dr. Ralph H. Hunt, 

 Dir. William M. Pollard, Mr. Robert F. Engle; for the Com,- 

 miittee on Resolutions, Mr. A. J. Rider, Mr. William, Delaney 

 and General Heber Breintnall; for the Auditing Committee, 

 Mr. H. G. Van Note and General H. H. Brinkerhoff. 



We have a pretty full program, and we find it will be neces- 

 sary to limit the reading of papers tO' twenty minutes each and 

 the discussions to five minutes. 



The next paper on the program, "The General Principles of 

 Salt-Marsh Drainage," will be given by Harold I. Eaton, of 

 Altlantic County, who is chief inspector of the Atlantic County 

 Commission. 



The General Principles of SaIt=Marsh Drainage 



BY HAROLD I. EATON, ATI^ANTIC CITY, N. J. 



In discussing the subject which has been assigned me, ''The 

 General Principles of Salt-Marsh Drainage," it is rather difficult 

 to present the subject without repeating what most of you have 

 heard dozens of times within the past few years. Unfortu- 

 nately, not a great deal of progress in the method of salt-marsh 

 drainage has been made, and we are still followling the princi- 

 ples advocated by Prof. John B. Smith in 1902 and 1903, al- 

 though his methods have been greatly elaborated. 



In practice it should be the aim of the engineer or inspector 

 in charge of salt-marsh drainage work to keep constantly in 

 mind the fundamental purpose of the work, which is the re- 

 moval of standing or stagnant water from the surface of the 



