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Record W1970389670 · doi:10.1680/ehah.2011.164.4.245

Overcoming barriers: Milk River Irrigation Project, Montana, USA

2011· article· en· W1970389670 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Fredric L. Quivik

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicArchaeology and Natural History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLand reclamationBayLeveeIrrigationHydrology (agriculture)Water resource managementEnvironmental scienceGeographyArchaeologyGeologyCartographyEcology

Abstract

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The United States Reclamation Service (predecessor to the United States Bureau of Reclamation) developed the Milk River Irrigation Project in Montana a century ago. To supplement the waters of the Milk River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico, reclamation engineers developed a storage reservoir on the St. Mary River, which flows into Canada and on to Hudson’s Bay. Although the reservoir’s dam is an earth embankment, which presented reclamation engineers with a rather modest challenge, the project required overcoming more substantial barriers, an international boundary and a North American continental divide (the divide separating the waters of Hudson’s Bay from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico). This article uses the storage project of the Milk River Irrigation Project to illustrate other facets of the irrigation movement’s ability to overcome barriers besides the construction of monumental dams, for which it is most widely known.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.883
Threshold uncertainty score0.486

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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