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Thanks for your insightful summary and link to the 1995 study of California's American River. ------------------------------ Ushakar Jha P.E., M.ASCE V.P. of Project Engineering Rye Development Winchester MA ------------------------------

Agree on the simplification part. Although I felt Barry chose not to provide any deterministic opinion but present arguments that were presented by the experts and regulators then. There is another book - Chaos Making a New Science by James Gleick, another interesting read, on non-linear turbulent flows ...

Rising Tide- The Great Mississippi Flood by John Barry is really intriguing to understand the history of world's one of the largest rivers and attempts to tame the river. As a primarily hydraulics engineer, I'm amazed by John Barry has explained river flow complexities without going into modeling. ...