Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Missouri River Basin--conservation, Control, and Use of Water Resources Including Floodwaters
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Conservation, Control, and Use of Water Resources of the Missouri River Basin in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Control and Use of the Water Resources of the Missouri River Basin
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Missouri River Basin
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Missouri River
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
THE MISSOURI RIVER BASIN PROJECT
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
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Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Missouri River Basin Progress Report
Author: Interior Missouri Basin Field CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Missouri River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Missouri River Basin Water Resources Management Plan
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Missouri River Basin Water Resources Management Plan
Author: Missouri River Basin CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Project Data
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Water and Power Resources ServicePublisher:
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Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 1482
Book Description
Big Dams of the New Deal Era
Author: David P. BillingtonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157887
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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.
