Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Board of Public Service Commissioners
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Board of Public Service Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles California for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1925
Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Board of Public Service Commissioners
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Publisher:
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Heavy Ground
Author: Norris Hundley
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1948908891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than twelve billion gallons of water surging through Southern California’s Santa Clara Valley, killing some four hundred people and causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. In this carefully researched work, Norris Hundley jr. and Donald C. Jackson provide a riveting narrative exploring the history of the ill-fated dam and the person directly responsible for its flawed design—William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer of the Los Angeles municipal water system. Employing copious illustrations and intensive research, Heavy Ground traces the interwoven roles of politics and engineering in explaining how the St. Francis Dam came to be built and the reasons for its collapse. Hundley and Jackson also detail the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, legal claims against the City of Los Angeles, efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on congressional approval of the future Hoover Dam. Underlying it all is a consideration of how the dam—and the disaster—were inextricably intertwined with the life and career of William Mulholland. Ultimately, this thoughtful and nuanced account of the dam’s failure reveals how individual and bureaucratic conceit fed Los Angeles’s desire to control vital water supplies in the booming metropolis of Southern California.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1948908891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than twelve billion gallons of water surging through Southern California’s Santa Clara Valley, killing some four hundred people and causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. In this carefully researched work, Norris Hundley jr. and Donald C. Jackson provide a riveting narrative exploring the history of the ill-fated dam and the person directly responsible for its flawed design—William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer of the Los Angeles municipal water system. Employing copious illustrations and intensive research, Heavy Ground traces the interwoven roles of politics and engineering in explaining how the St. Francis Dam came to be built and the reasons for its collapse. Hundley and Jackson also detail the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, legal claims against the City of Los Angeles, efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on congressional approval of the future Hoover Dam. Underlying it all is a consideration of how the dam—and the disaster—were inextricably intertwined with the life and career of William Mulholland. Ultimately, this thoughtful and nuanced account of the dam’s failure reveals how individual and bureaucratic conceit fed Los Angeles’s desire to control vital water supplies in the booming metropolis of Southern California.
Annual Report
Author: California Public Utilities Commission
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Annual Report
Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of Water and Power
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Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of California
Author: Railroad Commission of the State of California
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Annual report
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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City Manager Magazine
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Beginning in 1925, the March issue contins the association's proceedings.
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Beginning in 1925, the March issue contins the association's proceedings.
Water & Politics
Author: Vincent Ostrom
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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William Mulholland, a Forgotten Forefather
Author: Robert William Matson
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Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Public Management ... Devoted to the Conduct of Local Government
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Category : Municipal government by city manager
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Category : Municipal government by city manager
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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