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Release : 1978
Genre : Dam failures
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Book Synopsis Failure of the St. Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon, Near Saugus, California by :
Download or read book Failure of the St. Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon, Near Saugus, California written by . This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. St. Francis Dam Commission
Release : 1928
Genre : Dam failures
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Book Synopsis Report of the Commission Appointed by Governor C. C. Young to Investigate the Causes Leading to the Failure of the St. Francis Dam Near Saugus, California by : California. St. Francis Dam Commission
Download or read book Report of the Commission Appointed by Governor C. C. Young to Investigate the Causes Leading to the Failure of the St. Francis Dam Near Saugus, California written by California. St. Francis Dam Commission. This book was released on 1928. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy Lincoln Jones
Release : 1928
Genre : Dam failures
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Book Synopsis San Francisquito Canyon Dam Disaster (California) by : Guy Lincoln Jones
Download or read book San Francisquito Canyon Dam Disaster (California) written by Guy Lincoln Jones. This book was released on 1928. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norris Hundley
Release : 2020-12-08
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Heavy Ground by : Norris Hundley
Download or read book Heavy Ground written by Norris Hundley. This book was released on 2020-12-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than twelve billion gallons of water surging through Southern California’s Santa Clara Valley, killing some four hundred people and causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. In this carefully researched work, Norris Hundley jr. and Donald C. Jackson provide a riveting narrative exploring the history of the ill-fated dam and the person directly responsible for its flawed design—William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer of the Los Angeles municipal water system. Employing copious illustrations and intensive research, Heavy Ground traces the interwoven roles of politics and engineering in explaining how the St. Francis Dam came to be built and the reasons for its collapse. Hundley and Jackson also detail the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, legal claims against the City of Los Angeles, efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on congressional approval of the future Hoover Dam. Underlying it all is a consideration of how the dam—and the disaster—were inextricably intertwined with the life and career of William Mulholland. Ultimately, this thoughtful and nuanced account of the dam’s failure reveals how individual and bureaucratic conceit fed Los Angeles’s desire to control vital water supplies in the booming metropolis of Southern California.
Author : John Nichols
Release : 2002-10-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis St. Francis Dam Disaster by : John Nichols
Download or read book St. Francis Dam Disaster written by John Nichols. This book was released on 2002-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minutes before midnight on the evening of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed. The dam's 200-foot concrete wall crumpled, sending billions of gallons of raging flood waters down San Francisquito Canyon, sweeping 54 miles down the Santa Clara River to the sea, and claiming over 450 lives in the disaster. Captured here in over 200 images is a photographic record of the devastation caused by the flood, and the heroic efforts of residents and rescue workers. Built by the City of Los Angeles' Bureau of Water Works and Supply, the failure of the St. Francis Dam on its first filling was the greatest American civil engineering failure of the 20th century. Beginning at dawn on the morning after the disaster, stunned local residents picked up their cameras to record the path of destruction, and professional photographers moved in to take images of the washed-out bridges, destroyed homes and buildings, Red Cross workers giving aid, and the massive clean-up that followed. The event was one of the worst disasters in California's history, second only to the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
