Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Laboratory Tests on Embankment Materials from Borrow Area A, Meadow Borrow Area, and Hunters Valley Borrow Area, Union Valley Dam, Union Valley Unit, American River Construction Division, Central Valley Project
Author: Index to Laboratory and Other Numbered Reports
Author: Ferdinand StengerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Design and Construction of Levees
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN: 9781410217608
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The purpose of this manual is to present basic principles used in the design and construction of earth levees. The term levee as used herein is defined as an embankment whose primary purpose is to furnish flood protection from seasonal high water and which is therefore subject to water loading for periods of only a few days or weeks a year. Embankments that are subject to water loading for prolonged periods (longer than normal flood protection requirements) or permanently should be designed in accordance with earth dam criteria rather than the levee criteria given herein. Even though levees are similar to small earth dams they differ from earth dams in the following important respects: (a) a levee embankment may become saturated for only a short period of time beyond the limit of capillary saturation, (b) levee alignment is dictated primarily by flood protection requirements, which often results in construction on poor foundations, and (c) borrow is generally obtained from shallow pits or from channels excavated adjacent to the levee, which produce fill material that is often heterogeneous and far from ideal. Selection of the levee section is often based on the properties of the poorest material that must be used.
The Sun River Project
Author: Robert AutobeeHuman Adaptation in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains
Author: George SaboCalifornia Highways and Public Works
Author: Engineering Geology of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, Utah
Author: William R. LundPublisher: Utah Geological Survey
ISBN: 1557910936
Category : Engineering geology
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Geologic exposures in the Salt Lake City region record a long history of sedimentation and tectonic activity extending back to the Precambrian Era. Today, the city lies above a deep, sediment-filled basin flanked by two uplifted range blocks, the Wasatch Range and the Oquirrh Mountains. The Wasatch Range is the easternmost expression of major Basin and Range extension in north-central Utah and is bounded on the west by the Wasatch fault zone (WFZ), a major zone of active normal faulting. During the late Pleistocene Epoch, the Salt Lake City region was dominated by a succession of inter-basin lakes. Lake Bonneville was the last and probably the largest of these lakes. By 11,000 yr BP, Lake Bonneville had receded to approximately the size of the present Great Salt Lake.
Fish and Game Code
Author: CaliforniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishery law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Water Measurement Manual
Author: Water and Los Angeles
Author: William DeverellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520292421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Los Angeles rose to significance in the first half of the twentieth century by way of its complex relationship to three rivers: the Los Angeles, the Owens, and the Colorado. The remarkable urban and suburban trajectory of southern California since then cannot be fully understood without reference to the ways in which each of these three river systems came to be connected to the future of the metropolitan region. This history of growth must be understood in full consideration of all three rivers and the challenges and opportunities they presented to those who would come to make Los Angeles a global power. Full of primary sources and original documents, Water and Los Angeles will be of interest to both students of Los Angeles and general readers interested in the origins of the city.