Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland River
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Engineers on the Twin Rivers
Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland River
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Big Dams of the New Deal Era
Author: David P. BillingtonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157887
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate. Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four western river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived public needs, and a river’s natural features intertwined to create distinctive dams within each region. In particular, the authors describe how two federal agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, became key players in the creation of these important public works. By illuminating the mathematical analysis that supported large-scale dam construction, the authors also describe how and why engineers in the 1930s most often opted for massive gravity dams, whose design required enormous quantities of concrete or earth-rock fill for stability. Richly illustrated, Big Dams of the New Deal Era offers a compelling account of how major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape—both politically and physically—and why American society in the 1930s embraced them wholeheartedly.
Two Rivers Harbor, Wis
Author: United States. Army. Office of the Chief of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Manitowoc County from Two Rivers to Manitowoc, Wis., Beach Erosion Control Study
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beach erosion
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The History of Large Federal Dams
Author: David P. BillingtonPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160728235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
Report of the Chief of Engineers
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year ...
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army Transmitting Report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors on Review of Reports Heretofore Submitted on Minneapolis Harbor, Minn., with Illustration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands
Author: Jurgen SchmandtPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108417035
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Interdisciplinary volume considers how nine arid/semi-arid river basins with irrigated agriculture will survive future climate change, siltation, and decreased flow.