ABSTRACT
The subject of river engineering is a very wide-ranging one, and only some of the more important aspects can be covered in this book. Other chapters deal with structures which are usually regarded as an integral part of river engineering, but which (in the authors’ view) have merited separate chapters: diversion works, including intakes (Chapter 9); cross drainage and drop structures (Chapter 10); inland navigation (Chapter 11). Thus only the methods of hydrometry, i.e. the measurement of water and bed levels, discharges and water quality, with their associated structures, as well as river improvement structures, i.e. structures mainly designed to create favourable geometric and kinematic conditions, or to aid navigation and flood control, are briefly discussed in this chapter.
