Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers for the Panama Canal

40 feet adopted Alhajuela amount andesite average BERTONCINI Board Boca Bohio bottom width breakwater breccia BURR C. S. Tide Tables cents Chagres River CHAIRMAN clay Colon Comité Technique Committee construction cost cubic feet cubic yards Culebra cut DAUCHY Depth at entrance dimensions DOSE dredging dumps earth dam elevation engineer estimate excavation feet per second flood Gamboa dam gates Gatun dam GUÉRARD harbor high water HUNTER increase Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus kilometer La Boca labor lake Limon Bay lock canal Lock-Canal lockage lowest neap tide MALTBY material maximum mean low water miles Mindi Miraflores navigation necessary Obispo Pacific Panama Bay Panama Canal PARSONS Pedro Miguel proposed quantities QUELLENNEC RANDOLPH reason RIPLEY rock sea-level canal sea-level plan ships slope soft rock Sosa steam shovels STEARNS STEVENS Suez Canal summit level tidal lock TINCAUZER tracks traffic United vessels WALLACE water of lowest WELCKER