Re: Digest Number 1661

From: Joerg Baumgartner <joe_at_...>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:57:54 +0200 (CEST)


Jeff:
> Thanks Dave!

Seconded.

> It seems to me that at some point, we either need a
> big cascade or even a waterfall to explain how the River got from
> the Upland Marsh to the Bay. My thought is that the Pharoah's New
> River is navigable - it goes around the Shadow Plateau to the north
> around around the west to Nochet.

Most of the New River is a fairly straight canal, then a quite flooded riverine lowland from where the Runnel valley is overcharged with taking the water masses.

Did the Pharaoh include locks and fish stairs in his drainage channel?

> Based on Wes' Esrolia maps (assuming the scale is right), we are now
> talking about 2 to 3 feet per mile average gradient from Nochet to
> Pharaoh's Marsh and around 5 feet per mile average gradient from
> Marsh to Marsh. Is that any easier?

Still requires a small tidal wave to get river craft upriver, I think.

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