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    Engineering Properties of Soils and Their Measurement, by J. E. Bowles. McGraw-Hill Book


    Company, Inc., New York, New York. 187 pages. 1970. $8.95.

    The book aims to serve as a handbook for students who attend a basic course in Soil
    Mechanics; it provides detailed instructions for performing basic laboratory soil tests including
    methods of computations and the presentation of the results. The text is well written, concise
    and didactic; the experiences collected in teaching laboratory practice for several years were
    fruitfully used. Thus, the intent of the author-“to provide a maximum of understanding of
    the purpose of the test and the theory involved”-has been fully achieved. The included
    experiments reflect the current ASTM procedures and the generally accepted techniques in the
    U.S.A. for nonstandardized tests. The explanation and theory included is well balanced and
    clearly presented. The figures and diagrams are particularly clear. They give fully explained
    examples and data sheets with typical test data. The photographs clearly illustrate some steps
    of the procedures. Blank data sheets and graph papers serve as a useful addition.

    A . Kezdi
    University of Technical Science
    Budapest, Hungary
    ***

    Flood Plain Management: Iowa’s Experience, edited by Merwin D. Dougal. The Iowa State
    University Press, Ames, Iowa. 270 pages. 1969.

    This book is a collection of 21 papers presented at the Conference on Flood Plain Manage-
    ment, Sixth Water Resources Design Conference, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa in
    January, 1968.
    The book starts with a presentation of the need for, and the general history of, flood plain
    management. Money being spent on developments on flood plains subject to damage by floods
    approaches that spent for flood control. Therefore, in spite of huge expenditures for flood
    control, flood damages continue to increase. Eleven major floods in Iowa are described. The
    relationship of major floods to the mean annual flood is presented as a useful parameter. The
    hydraulic effect of obstructions in the flood plain are described.
    The experiences of several local communities and regions in flood plain management are
    presented. Iowa City had the first comprehensive flood plain ordinance in Iowa. Waterloo
    substituted, in part, modified land use for structural measures. Davenport struggled for many
    years to manage the flood plain of a local creek. Cedar Rapids is establishing parks and green
    belts in areas subject to flooding, Lincoln, Nebraska effectively controls flood plain occupancy
    by controlling utility connections and by zoning and subdivision control to three miles
    beyond the city limits. The Bi-State Metropolitan Planning Area in Scott County, Iowa and
    Rock Island County, Illinois contains 61 agencies of government. This is a recognition of the
    fact that floods do not recognize legal boundaries. The Tennessee Valley Authority Program
    includes reports on local flood conditions, flood plain regulations, assistance with flood prob-
    lems, and comprehensive flood damage prevention programs. Cooperation among different
    levels of government is stressed.
    Problems of organization for flood control and planning are presented in several papers.
    Cooperation from the public is vital. Therefore, public education is an essential early step.
    Several sources of assistance are discussed. The U.S. Geological Survey prepares flood inunda-
    tion maps. The Corps of Engineers prepares reports, provides technical services and guidance,

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