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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 : 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.
Author : Doyce Blackman Nunis
Release : 1995
Genre : Dam failures
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Book Synopsis The St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited by : Doyce Blackman Nunis
Download or read book The St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited written by Doyce Blackman Nunis. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. Francis Dam was built in San Francisquito Canyon to provide additional storage for the Los Angeles - Owens River Aqueduct. On the night of 12/13 March 1928, it failed catastrophically, killing about 450 people in the San Francisquito and Santa Clara River valleys.
Author : Norris Hundley
Release : 2016-01-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 665/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Heavy Ground by : Norris Hundley
Download or read book Heavy Ground written by Norris Hundley. This book was released on 2016-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minutes beforeÊmidnightÊon March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than 12 billion gallons of water surging through CaliforniaÕs Santa Clara Valley and killing some 400 people, causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. This extensively illustrated volume gives an account of how the St. Francis Dam came to be built, the reasons for its collapse, the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, the efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, the political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on dam safety regulation. Underlying all is a consideration of how the damÑand the disasterÑwere inextricably intertwined with the life and career of William Mulholland.Ê
Author : John Nichols
Release : 2002-11-06
Genre : Nature
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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 2002-11-06. 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.
