Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Headwaters District Roundtables
Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Ohio River Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio River
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
National Waterways Roundtable
Author: National Waterways Roundtable Papers
Author: The History of Large Federal Dams
Author: David P. BillingtonPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160728235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
Triumph at the falls
Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Water Resources Development in West Virginia
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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.