Abstract In the 1940s, Delaware River at Philadelphia was so dirty that pilots could smell it from air. The water harsh corroded metal and discolored paint. Fish killed by pollution washed up on Delaware’s banks. lack of oxygen in parts river blocked critical migration others.

Local scouring in the downstream of hydraulic structures is one of the important issues in river and hydraulic engineering, which involves a lot of costs every year, so the prediction of the rate of scour is important in hydraulic design. Side weirs are the most important of hydraulic structures that are used in passing flow. This study investigate the scouring due to falling jet from side weir...

This poem describes a riverine flood that occurred on Salt Creek (the Little Des Plaines River), Brookfield, Cook County, Illinois (4th congressional district), US, as part of extensive regional flooding in the Chicago area April 18-19, 2013. Both case report and epic, this hyperlocal work is post-postmodern (metamodern) baroque exploration human systems sense-making revealed through natural di...