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Author : David P. Billington,Donald C. Jackson,Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0160728231
Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
Author : U.s. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation,National Park Service,David P. Billington
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1493649043
The history of federal involvement in dam construction goes back at least to the 1820s, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built wing dams to improve navigation on the Ohio River. The work expanded after the Civil War, when Congress authorized the Corps to build storage dams on the upper Mississippi River and regulatory dams to aid navigation on the Ohio River. In 1902, when Congress established the Bureau of Reclamation (then called the “Reclamation Service”), the role of the federal government increased dramatically. Subsequently, large Bureau of Reclamation dams dotted the Western landscape. Together, Reclamation and the Corps have built the vast majority of major federal dams in the United States. These dams serve a wide variety of purposes. Historically, Bureau of Reclamation dams primarily served water storage and delivery requirements, while U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams supported navigation and flood control. For both agencies, hydropower production had become an important secondary function. This history explores the story of federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction by carefully selecting those dams and river systems that seem particularly critical to the story. Written by three distinguished historians, the history will interest engineers, historians, cultural resource planners, water resource planners and others interested in the challenges facing dam builders. At the same time, the history also addresses some of the negative environmental consequences of dam-building, a series of problems that today both Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seek to resolve.
Author : U. S. Department of the Interior,Bureau Of Reclamation,Reclamation Bureau (U S ),U. S. Army Corps of Engineers,National Park Service,U. S. Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521422087
The history of federal involvement in dam construction goes back at least to the 1820s, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built wing dams to improve navigation on the Ohio River. The work expanded after the Civil War, when Congress authorized the Corps to build storage dams on the upper Mississippi River and regulatory dams to aid navigation on the Ohio River. In 1902, when Congress established the Bureau of Reclamation (then called the "Reclamation Service"), the role of the federal government increased dramatically. Subsequently, large Bureau of Reclamation dams dotted the Western landscape. Together, Reclamation and the Corps have built the vast majority of major federal dams in the United States. These dams serve a wide variety of purposes. Historically, Bureau of Reclamation dams primarily served water storage and delivery requirements, while U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams supported navigation and flood control. For both agencies, hydropower production has become an important secondary function. This history explores the story of federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction by carefully selecting those dams and river systems that seem particularly critical to the story. Written by three distinguished historians, the history will interest engineers, historians, cultural resource planners, water resource planners and others interested in the challenges facing dam builders. At the same time, the history also addresses some of the negative environmental consequences of dam-building, a series of problems that today both Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seek to resolve. Chapter 1 - "Improving" Rivers in America: From the Revolution to the Progressive Era - Rivers in Early America * Chapter 2 - Theories and Competing Visions for Concrete Dams * Chapter 3 - Early Multipurpose Dams: Roosevelt and the Reclamation Service, Wilson and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers * Chapter 4 - The Boulder Canyon Project, Water Development in the Colorado River Basin, and Hoover Dam * Chapter 5 - Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams and The Columbia River Control Plan * Chapter 6 - Earth Dams on the Missouri River: Fort Peck and Garrison Dams and the Pick-Sloan Plan * Chapter 7: The Central Valley Project: Shasta and Friant Dams * Chapter 8 - Dams for Navigation and Flood: Tygart and Mainstem Dams on the Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Tennessee Rivers * Chapter 9 - The Environmental Impact of the Big Dam Era Rivers as Resource: The American Watershed System * The Rise of an Industrializing Nation * The Origins of Federal Water Resource Policy * WATER LAW AND THE USE OF RIVERS * Mills and Dams in the Early Industrial Era * Water Law in the West * The Western Setting * The California Doctrine: 1851-1886 * THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY * The Corps and the French Engineering Tradition * Commerce, Navigation and the "Steamboat Case" * French Tradition versus Frontier Techniques * Navigation and the Beginning of River Dams: 1824-1865 * Postwar Navigation and the Ohio River: 1866-1885 * The Upper Mississippi and the Headwater Dams:1866-1899 * WATER IN THE WEST: ORIGINS OF THE RECLAMATION SERVICE * The West Before the Nineteenth Century * Water and Mormon Migration * California Water Development * The Exploits of John Wesley Powell * The Sentimental and Practical during the 1890s * The Chittenden Survey of 1897 * Newell, Roosevelt and the Move to Reclamation * PROGRESSIVISM
Author : David Billington,Professor David P Billington, Jr.,Donald Jackson,Professor Emeritus of Medical Science Donald C Jackson,Martin Melosi,Professor Martin V Melosi,U. S. Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1483966135
This history explores the story of federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction by carefully selecting those dams and river systems that seem particularly critical to the story. The history also addresses some of the negative environmental consequences of dam-building, a series of problems that today both Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seek to resolve.
Author : David P. Billington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dams
ISBN : OCLC:248547017
"The objectives of the study were twofold: a history of federal dam development, concentrating on key projects and river systems, and the drafting of documents to assist cultural resource managers and others interested in nominating dams to the National Historic Landmarks program"--Preface.
Author : David P. Billington,Donald C. Jackson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780806157887
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 : Robert B. Jansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Dam safety
ISBN : MINN:31951P00662201H
Author : R. Scot Duncan
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780817361280
"In Southern Rivers: Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity, R. Scot Duncan explores the environmental history and future of the rivers of the southeastern United States. These river systems are the epicenter of North American freshwater biodiversity and the top global hotspot for several aquatic taxa including mussels, turtles, snails, crayfish, and temperate zone fish; these rivers also play a prominent role in the region's history, culture, and economy. Unfortunately, centuries of industrialization have impaired the region's river systems, sacrificing biodiversity and compromising their ability to provide essential ecosystem services like drinking water, waste disposal, irrigation, navigation, and power production to human communities. And now overall waterflow is diminishing in the Southeast due to increasing heat and drought brought by climate change. As these and other threats to the region's water supply increase, it may seem necessary to prioritize between using water for natural resource conservation or reserving it for human concerns-but Duncan argues this is a false choice. Combining nature, science, and stories in a series of short, illustrated chapters, Southern Rivers takes readers on an illuminating journey of the Southeast's river systems and the many communities that depend on them. Duncan cogently articulates the challenges threatening rivers, streams, and wetlands in the face of the planet's accelerating climate and extinction crises, then turns to explore the new solutions conservationists and water managers have developed to preserve them. Ultimately, the book is both a call to action and a clear, comprehensive, practical plan to help the Southeast save its water resources and adapt to climate change by restoring the very biodiversity that is now under threat"--
Author : Wesley R. Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Boulder dam
ISBN : UOM:39015047641165
Author : William D. Rowley
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000102920091
On cover: Reclamation, Managing Water in the West. Tells the history of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1902-1945.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D02530686Y
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119632221
Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for research A Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America’s complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Bringing together more than thirty original essays by both established and emerging scholars, this innovative volume presents a succinct and accessible overview of American agricultural history while delivering a state-of-the-art assessment of modern scholarship on a diversity of subjects, themes, and issues. The essays provide readers with starting points for their exploration of American agricultural history—whether in general or in regards to a specific topic—and highlights the many ways the agricultural history of America is of integral importance to the wider American experience. Individual essays trace the origin and development of agricultural politics and policies, examine changes in science, technology, and government regulations, offer analytical suggestions for new research areas, discuss matters of ethnicity and gender in American agriculture, and more. This Companion: Introduces readers to a uniquely wide range of topics within the study of American agricultural history Provides a narrative summary and a critical examination of field-defining works Introduces specific topics within American agricultural history such as agrarian reform, agribusiness, and agricultural power and production Discusses the impacts of American agriculture on different groups including Native Americans, African Americans, and European, Asian, and Latinx immigrants Views the agricultural history of America through new interdisciplinary lenses of race, class, and the environment Explores depictions of American agriculture in film, popular music, literature, and art A Companion to American Agricultural History is an essential resource for introductory students and general readers seeking a concise overview of the subject, and for graduate students and scholars wanting to learn about a particular aspect of American agricultural history.
Author : William D. Rowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Dams
ISBN : IND:30000158330229
Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Barrages
ISBN : UIUC:30112029021083
Author : Interior Department
Publisher : Reclamation Bureau
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0160913640
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE Significantly reduced list price The second volume of the history of the Bureau of Reclamation offers a discussion and examination of the eventful years in the latter part ofthe twentieth century. Volume two covers from the end of World War II through year 2000 and is the last volume in this project. "
