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Title: Report on Colorado River and sedimentation at Needles, California
Creator: Means, Thomas H. (Thomas Herbert), 1875-1965
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945 January 9
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives
Collection: Thomas H. Means papers
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Description: Scope/Content: Railroad history -- Levels of water in the future -- Cause of conditions at Needles -- Flow of the Colorado River -- Silt in the Colorado River -- Retrogression studies below Boulder Dam -- Natural changes in river and level -- Effect of local desert-wash floods -- Effect of Davis Dam -- Effect of Parker Dam -- Responsibility for conditions at Needles -- Temporary protection of Needles -- Permanent solution of flood problems in the Mohave Valley -- Charts I to VIII-A, inclusive.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Technical reports
Maps
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Extent: 44 pages
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2k64gxq
cuwr_056_001_002
Language: English
eng
Subject: Sedimentation and deposition
Dams
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Place: Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Imperial Valley (Calif. and Mexico)

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