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...Pacific, deep-ocean pressure sensors are able to measure passing tsunamis, and coastal gauges take water-level measurements that are relayed in real time to a region-wide warning center. Nothing like that exists in the Indian Ocean. The U.N.'s International Oceanographic Commission is now working on creating an independent regional warning system that it hopes to have installed by the end of 2006. But that may prove difficult. The system will be expensive to establish and maintain, and pledges from donor countries in the tsunami's aftermath have not materialized. India has balked at the idea...
City workmen will clear debris out of the pond's outlet, which flows through an adjacent, city-owned, lot. The University's statement said that the clearing of the channel would "increase the flew of water from the pond to the catch basin located on City land and thereby maintain the low water-level...
...year. Plans have been made to eliminate about 1,000 miles of duplicate tracks, and computers were called into service to help decide upon the best routes. With a choice of two main lines from Chicago to the Northeast, for example, the computers found that the Central's water-level route would be much more economical than the Pennsy tracks that ascend nearly 3,000 feet over the mountains of western Pennsylvania. Connecting links between Pennsy and New York Central tracks are being rushed at Toledo, Grand Rapids, Cincinnati, Terre Haute, Chicago, Buffalo and Detroit. Freight yards at Cleveland...
Congressman Willis Bradley, who regards himself as the canal expert of the House of Representatives, says the cost of a Colombian water-level (i.e., no locks) canal would be a "fantastic" $7 billion. The ditch would be 95 miles long, cut through a divide which is 932 feet above sea level (49 miles longer, 522 feet higher than a proposed sea-level route across Panama). Excavators would have to move 1,810,000,000 cubic yards of earth, compared to 1,069,000,000 in Panama. Secretary Royall wants fuller information. Besides, if the Colombia survey persuades Panama to change...
...Monongahela Rivers as they join to form the Ohio stand the skyscrapers, department stores, theatres and hotels of Pittsburgh's business district. At first, as the rivers swelled after 24 hours of pelting snow, sleet and rain, the city was vastly alarmed by a prediction that the water-level at their junction might rise as high as 34 ft.-close to the record set by the disastrous flood of 1907. Twenty-four hours later the junction stood at an all-time high of 48 ft., and in the Golden Triangle a swimmer could not touch bottom...