Author: David P. Billington
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2017-04-20
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0806157887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: United States. Department of the Army
Publisher:
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 72
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Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2005-10
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780160728235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
Author: Jurgen Schmandt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-16
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1108266258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This interdisciplinary volume examines how nine arid or semi-arid river basins with thriving irrigated agriculture are doing now and how they may change between now and mid-century. The rivers studied are the Colorado, Euphrates-Tigris, Jucar, Limarí, Murray-Darling, Nile, Rio Grande, São Francisco, and Yellow. Engineered dams and distribution networks brought large benefits to farmers and cities, but now the water systems face multiple challenges, above all climate change, reservoir siltation, and decreased water flows. Unchecked, they will see reduced food production and endanger the economic livelihood of basin populations. The authors suggest how to respond to these challenges without loss of food production, drinking water, or environmental health. The analysis of the political, hydrological, and environmental conditions within each basin gives policymakers, engineers, and researchers interested in the water/sustainability nexus a better understanding of engineered rivers in arid lands.
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher:
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 996
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Publisher:
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 1034
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher:
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 610
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