Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Dam Sites on the Missouri River in South Dakota
Author: The Fort Peck Project
Author: Toni Rae LinenbergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Peck Dam (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Dammed Indians
Author: Michael L. LawsonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806126722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Oahe Reservoir, Missouri River Basin, South Dakota
Author: The Missouri River Ecosystem
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309170036
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery resulted from a study conducted at the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The nation's longest river, the Missouri River and its floodplain ecosystem experienced substantial environmental and hydrologic changes during the twentieth century. The context of Missouri River dam and reservoir system management is marked by sharp differences between stakeholders regarding the river's proper management regime. The management agencies have been challenged to determine the appropriate balance between these competing interests. This Water Science and Technology Board report reviews the ecological state of the river and floodplain ecosystem, scientific research of the ecosystem, and the prospects for implementing an adaptive management approach, all with a view toward helping move beyond ongoing scientific and other differences. The report notes that continued ecological degradation of the ecosystem is certain unless some portion of pre-settlement river flows and processes were restored. The report also includes recommendations to enhance scientific knowledge through carefully planned and monitored river management actions and the enactment of a Missouri River Protection and Recovery Act.
The Paul Brave Site (32SI4), Oahe Reservoir Area, North Dakota
Author: W. Raymond WoodPublisher:
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Big Dams of the New Deal Era
Author: David P. BillingtonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157895
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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.
Missouri River Basin Progress Report
Author: Interior Missouri Basin Field CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missouri River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Uphill Against Water
Author: Peter CarrelsPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803263970
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In Uphill against Water, Peter Carrels examines the history of Missouri River water development projects in general and describes the struggle over one of the largest of those projects, South Dakota?s Oahe irrigation project, in detail. Opposition to the Oahe project was intense and well organized. After four years of bitter competition, an energetic and resourceful grassroots group, United Family Farmers, wrested control of the Oahe conservancy district board, a government agency that had been an ardent supporter of the irrigation project. That political triumph led to the only victory in the West by a grassroots group over the Bureau of Reclamation and the irrigation and business establishment.
The Federal Engineer, Damsites to Missile Sites
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description