Department Bulletin 1430 
PLATE XI 
Sites for Settling Basins 
Alluvial lands, headwaters of Catawba River, N. C, injured or destroyed by floods in 1916. 
They represent ideal sites for the location of settling basins to collect large quantities of sedi- 
ment which otherwise would reduce the pondage of reservoirs on this river. In time level 
alluvials very valuable for farming would be built upon the sites of the settling basins 
