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Category : City planning
Languages : en
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Los Angeles River Alternative Flood Control Study: Evaluation of alternatives
Author: Los Angeles River Alternative Flood Control Study: Baseline conditions report
Author: Los Angeles River Alternative Flood Control Study
Author: A Report on the Work of the Los Angeles River Watershed Advisory Task Force Regarding the Los Angeles River Alternative Flood Control Study Prepared by Simons, Li and Associates and the Los Angeles County Drainage Area (LACDA) Project /submitted by Harry W. Stone, Director of Public Works
Author: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Department of Public WorksPublisher:
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
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Los Angeles County Drainage Area Review, Feasibility Study and Interim Report
Author: Flood Control Alternatives for Uvas-Carnadero Creek
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
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Category : Carnadero Creek (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Hazardous Metropolis
Author: Jared OrsiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520238508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An fascinating history of flood control efforts in Los Angeles from the 1870s to the present, showing how engineering has continually failed to contain nature. This book teaches us to think of cities as ecosystems.
Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309176255
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This book reviews the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) investigations of flood control options for the American River basin and evaluates flood control feasibility studies for the watershed, with attention to the contingency assumptions, hydrologic methods, and other analyses supporting the flood control options. This book provides detailed comments on many technical issues, including a careful review of the 1991 National Research Council report American River Watershed Investigation, and looks beyond the Sacramento case to broader questions about the nation's approach to flood risk management. It discusses how to utilize information available about flood hazard reduction alternatives for the American River basin, the potential benefits provided by various alternatives, the impacts of alternatives on environmental resources and ecosystems, and the trade-offs inherent in any choice among alternatives which does not lie in the realm of scientists and engineers, but in the arena of public decisionmaking.
Los Angeles River Flood Prevention Project
Author: Earl C. RubyPublisher:
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Category : Angeles National Forest (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Los Angeles River
Author: Blake GumprechtPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801866425
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers Three centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycamore. Trout spawned in its waters and grizzly bears roamed its shores. The bountiful environment the river helped create supported one of the largest concentrations of Indians in North America. Today, the river is made almost entirely of concrete. Chain-link fence and barbed wire line its course. Shopping carts and trash litter its channel. Little water flows in the river most of the year, and nearly all that does is treated sewage and oily street runoff. On much of its course, the river looks more like a deserted freeway than a river. The river's contemporary image belies its former character and its importance to the development of Southern California. Los Angeles would not exist were it not for the river, and the river was crucial to its growth. Recognizing its past and future potential, a potent movement has developed to revitalize its course. The Los Angeles River offers the first comprehensive account of a river that helped give birth to one of the world's great cities, significantly shaped its history, and promises to play a key role in its future.