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Title: The Control of floods by reservoirs, 1927
Bulletin No. 14
Creator: Bailey, Paul (formerly Director of Public Works and State Engineer)
Contributor: Edmonston, A.D. (Principal Assistant)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
Publication Information: California. Division of Engineering and Irrigation
Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: California Water Documents
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Rights Holder and Contact: Claremont Colleges Library, Special Collections
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Description: Table of contents: Foreword, Engineering Advisory Committee, Organization, List of plates, List of tables, Chapter I - Opportunity for controlling floods by reservoirs, Chapter II - Systems of flood control, Chapter III - The Principal characteristics of flood occurrence, Chapter IV - Reservoir space required to detain excess flood flows, Chapter V - The Reservoir operating diagram for controlling floods, Chapter VI - Effect on conservation of controlling floods by reservoir, Chapter VII - Conclusions, Chapter VIII - Tables of monthly summaries of water and power yield of reservoirs on the four illustrative streams
Type: text
Format: application/pdf
Identifier: cwd00016
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cwd/id/353
Language: English
Subject: Flood control
Flood dams and reservoirs
Irrigation
Municipal water supply
Water-supply
Engineering
Time Period: 1895-1927
Place: California
Source: Serial, 478 scanned pages: The Control of floods by reservoirs, Seeley G. Mudd Science Library
Relation: California Water Documents – https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cwd

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