Wetlands Drainage, River Modification and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890-1930

By: John Thompson

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Hardcover | 31 January 2002 | Edition Number 3

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John Thompson provides a historical account of the development process, sectoral conflicts, and outcomes related to major alterations of land and water relationships, as well as habit changes, caused in the valley downstream from Peoria by the large-scale reclamations for agriculture and the post-1900 intrusion of large volumes of waste water from the Sanitary and Ship Canal of Chicago.

Thompson examines the history of the land drainage movement and the inevitable environmental changes caused by the intensification of urban and rural land use in the Midwest between sixty and one hundred years ago. He shows how institutions of land drainage were organized and operated and how the nascent drainage engineering and contracting sectors functioned. Focusing on the lower valley, Thompson also deals with drainage as it affects the nation, the Midwest, Chicago, and downstate Illinois. Thompson is the first to address the array of interrelated physical, economic, and political circumstances caused by the development of competing and incompatible uses for the waters and the floodplain of the Illinois River when large-scale land reclamation and great volumes of water from Lake Michigan and Chicago changed land and water relationships, destroyed a major riverine fishing industry, and severely damaged renowned waterfowl hunting grounds. " "

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"Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890-1930 is the only detailed account of the demise of natural wetlands along the Illinois River and the development of levee systems and their effect on wetlands. It is one of the most superior scholarly works I have reviewed."-Robert Mohlenbrock

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
The Physical Setting and General Context of Land Drainage	p. 3
The Physical Stage	p. 3
Legislated Institutional Framework for Drainage	p. 10
The Economic Context	p. 16
Contextual Summary and Foretaste	p. 21
The Construction and Spread of Drainage Districts	p. 23
Floodplain Conditions at the Turn of the Century	p. 25
Levee Building	p. 29
Development of Interior Ditch Systems	p. 40
Construction and Operating Costs	p. 41
Assessment of the Work	p. 44
The Reclamation Achievement	p. 48
The Role of Pumps in Land Drainage	p. 62
Adoption of Pumps	p. 64
Pumping Facility Functions	p. 65
Trial and Error	p. 67
Pump House Location and Characteristics	p. 72
Retrospect	p. 76
Shapers of the Drainage Landscape	p. 78
Land Drainage Precedents in Central Illinois	p. 79
Excavators on the Bottoms	p. 82
Contract Advertising and Negotiation	p. 88
Comparative Costs	p. 90
The Drainage Contractors	p. 90
End of the Dredge Contracting Era	p. 96
Challenges Engineered by Other Sectors	p. 100
Navigation Improvements, 1869-1899	p. 102
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal	p. 103
Resolving the In-State Conflict	p. 110
Retrospect	p. 111
Days of Reckoning for Reclamation	p. 114
Foretaste of Trouble	p. 114
The Flood Event of 1922	p. 121
The Floods of 1926 and 1927	p. 127
State and Federal Flood Control Assistance	p. 133
Market Disaster and Early Aftermath	p. 138
Agricultural Activity and Settlement in the 1920s	p. 142
The Measure of the Bottomlands	p. 144
The Agricultural Scene	p. 146
The Texture of Human Occupance	p. 150
Harvesting Nature's Endowment	p. 161
Timber Cutting	p. 164
Trapping	p. 165
Waterfowl Hunting	p. 166
Commercial Fishing	p. 169
Pollution and the Fisheries	p. 177
Mussel Gathering	p. 178
Development of Rod and Gun Clubs	p. 180
Conflict over Wetlands Use and Access	p. 182
Redefining Public Interest	p. 190
Taking Stock	p. 196
Retrospect	p. 200
Notes	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 259
Index	p. 277
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