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Missouri Ozark Plateau Headwaters Diversion engineering feat

Kenneth R. Olson, Lois Wright Morton and David Speidel
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation January 2016, 71 (1) 13A-19A; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.71.1.13A
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