Author: Donald C. Jackson
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Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Raising Arizona's Dams
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Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816514922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This is the engrossing story of the unsung heroes who did the day-to-day work of building Arizona's dams, focusing on the lives of laborers and their families who created temporary construction communities during the building of seven major dams in central Arizona. The book focuses primarily on the 1903-1911 Roosevelt Dam camps and the 1926-1927 Camp Pleasant at Waddell Dam, although other camps dating from the 1890s through the 1940s are discussed as well. The book is liberally illustrated with historic photographs of the camps and the people who occupied them while building the dams.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816514922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This is the engrossing story of the unsung heroes who did the day-to-day work of building Arizona's dams, focusing on the lives of laborers and their families who created temporary construction communities during the building of seven major dams in central Arizona. The book focuses primarily on the 1903-1911 Roosevelt Dam camps and the 1926-1927 Camp Pleasant at Waddell Dam, although other camps dating from the 1890s through the 1940s are discussed as well. The book is liberally illustrated with historic photographs of the camps and the people who occupied them while building the dams.
Theodore Roosevelt Dam
Author: Donald C. Jackson
Publisher:
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Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Big Dams of the New Deal Era
Author: David P. Billington
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806137957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806137957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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.
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
Floods of November 1965 to January 1966 in the Gila River Basin, Arizona and New Mexico, and Adjacent Basins in Arizona
Author: Byron Neil Aldridge
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Water Resources Data for Arizona
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Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Water Resources Data
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Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Surface Water Records of Arizona
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Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
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Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1984
Book Description
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1984
Book Description
Floods of October 1983 in Southeastern Arizona
Author: R. H. Roeske
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A detailed analysis of the torrential rains that hit southeastern Arizona in 1983.
Publisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A detailed analysis of the torrential rains that hit southeastern Arizona in 1983.