Higher Roads and Sites May Be Necessary "For the benefit of posterity, it! may be remarked that as the delta of the Yangtze advances by the steady settlement of mud, the water levels will also rise, with' the result that residents of Shanghai, say in the year 2100, will probably find it to raise all. their roads ing sites by one or two This prophecy was made on Sept. 21 in the course of an interview with north-China Hero:
Dr. Herbert Ghatley, "Engineer-in-Chie? of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, who scouted a suggestion, made ' elsewhere in engineering' circles, that the recurrence of floods such as this week's might be due to the forma tion of a new channel in the river-mouth which had the effect of piling greater volume of water into the Whangpoo.
The typhoon which skirted Shanghai during the early hours of September. 19, pointed out Dr. Chatley established new record flood level at Woosung, reaching about 19.3 feet above the zero at that point, This is about one foot" more than the previous record, set up in 1905 and approached on. several subsequent occasions.
The effect of a severe typhoon the immediate vicinity of Shanghé is to raise the high waters by som four feet, Dr. Chatley explained, and as the normal tidal high water in the harbour, say at the Publi Garden, is sometimes as much og 14, feet above the Woosung zero, it is conceivable that at some future date the water level might rise to bout 18 feet, which is about 20} inches higher than resi on September 2 this year.
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