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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Disastrous Southern California and Central Arizona Floods, Flash Floods, and Mudslides of February 1980
Author:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Disastrous Southern California and Central Arizona Floods, Flash Floods, and Mudslides of February 1980
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Natural Disaster Survey Report
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Category : Disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : Disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Selected Water Resources Abstracts
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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Hazardous Metropolis
Author: Jared Orsi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520930088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history—the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins, and nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Southern Californians have discovered that technologically engineered solutions to flooding are just as disaster-prone as natural waterways. Jared Orsi's lively history unravels the strange and often hazardous ways that engineering, politics, and nature have come together in Los Angeles to determine the flow of water. He advances a new paradigm—the urban ecosystem—for understanding the city's complex and unpredictable waterways and other issues that are sure to play a large role in future planning. As he traces the flow of water from sky to sea, Orsi brings together many disparate and intriguing pieces of the story, including local and national politics, the little-known San Gabriel Dam fiasco, the phenomenal growth of Los Angeles, and, finally, the influence of environmentalism. Orsi provocatively widens his vision toward other cities for which Los Angeles may offer a lesson—both of things gone wrong and a glimpse of how they might be improved.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520930088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history—the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins, and nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Southern Californians have discovered that technologically engineered solutions to flooding are just as disaster-prone as natural waterways. Jared Orsi's lively history unravels the strange and often hazardous ways that engineering, politics, and nature have come together in Los Angeles to determine the flow of water. He advances a new paradigm—the urban ecosystem—for understanding the city's complex and unpredictable waterways and other issues that are sure to play a large role in future planning. As he traces the flow of water from sky to sea, Orsi brings together many disparate and intriguing pieces of the story, including local and national politics, the little-known San Gabriel Dam fiasco, the phenomenal growth of Los Angeles, and, finally, the influence of environmentalism. Orsi provocatively widens his vision toward other cities for which Los Angeles may offer a lesson—both of things gone wrong and a glimpse of how they might be improved.
Summary of Significant Floods in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, 1970 Through 1989
Author: Charles A. Perry
Publisher: Geological Survey (USGS)
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Publisher: Geological Survey (USGS)
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Selected Water Resources Abstracts
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Publications Catalog of the U.S. Department of Commerce
Author: United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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U.S. Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
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Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Publisher:
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Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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