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Book Synopsis Lake Mead-Hoover Dam, the Story Behind the Scenery by : James C. Maxon
Download or read book Lake Mead-Hoover Dam, the Story Behind the Scenery written by James C. Maxon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become familiar with the vast Lake Mead country- its desert lakes, rivers, world-famous Hoover Dam, and the role that people have played through it all. This 9" x 12" book is overflowing with beautiful photos and interpretive text for your enjoyment.
Book Synopsis The Snail Darter and the Dam by : Zygmunt Jan Broel Plater
Download or read book The Snail Darter and the Dam written by Zygmunt Jan Broel Plater and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVEven today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish that blocked completion of a TVA dam is still invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the lawyer who with his students fought and won the Supreme Court case—known officially as Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill—tells the hidden story behind one of the nation’s most significant environmental law battles. /divDIV The realities of the darter’s case, Plater asserts, have been consistently mischaracterized in politics and the media. This book offers a detailed account of the six-year crusade against a pork-barrel project that made no economic sense and was flawed from the start. In reality TVA’s project was designed for recreation and real estate development. And at the heart of the little group fighting the project in the courts and Congress were family farmers trying to save their homes and farms, most of which were to be resold in a corporate land development scheme. Plater’s gripping tale of citizens navigating the tangled corridors of national power stimulates important questions about our nation’s governance, and at last sets the snail darter’s record straight. /div
Download or read book Behind the Dam written by David Grinstead and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in 1970 the US Army Corps of Engineers and a large construction company began to build a flood control dam in Southwestern Ohio. Setbacks and obstacles plagued the project during the six years of construction.Environmental opponents objected to the project long before the builders started their work. Opponents claimed the cost was excessive and the dam unnecessary. The opponents accused the government of being uncaring about the 185 families whose homes and farms were taken to make way for the dam. Delaying and protesting devices included injunctions, camp-ins, the voices of politicians, and biased newspaper articles.Weather, floods, and accidents hampered the contractor during the six years spent building the dam. Union disputes and personal tragedies complicated the difficult and ominous task. The ulterior motives of a rogue government inspector added to the contractor's problems.A politician and three realtors took advantage of hapless owners who wanted to sell. Some owners resorted to deception to enhance the value of their property.The story behind the dam is about hardships and perils that were part of the workers' lives. Their unheralded efforts made the dam a beautiful and useful reality. Without tribute, they put a little of themselves into the dam and lake. In the final stages, a financial crisis threatens the contractor's business life.The government's resident engineer and the contractor's project manager had the same goal, build the dam. They set aside conflicting motives to focus on and solve the projects many problems and challenges.
Book Synopsis The River Beyond the Dam by : Jean L. Waight
Download or read book The River Beyond the Dam written by Jean L. Waight and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern, ex-Christian, tree-hugging American woman comes up against a strange wish for church--but only if it could be radically different from what she's known. It would have to be one steeped in women's equality and freedom of thought. Unexpectedly, she finds herself on a journey like a canoe trip. The journey will heal her past, widen her present world, and offer hope for the future. Guided by her experiences in river canoeing--navigating the river, learning its currents, and riding its sparkling energy--her story unfolds through twelve years of pointed questions, congenial fellow travelers, and zesty discoveries. She experiences firsthand what she cannot get from a solo journey, including what it is to support Native Americans, and how Black womanist theology can make her a better white ally of Black women. Paddling the river, she is helped around fallen trees of biblical mistranslation and anti-woman dogma. After a cold-water crash, she repairs her canoe and emerges joyful again with a new, more flexible strength. Looking ahead, she follows clues about how the river is changing other churches--renewing and making them better neighbors and climate activists.
Book Synopsis The Dam Keeper, Book 2 by : Robert Kondo
Download or read book The Dam Keeper, Book 2 written by Robert Kondo and published by First Second Books. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in a lush, vibrantly drawn graphic novel series based on the Oscar-nominated animated short film, about a young pig who must save his village from a toxic black fog.
Book Synopsis The Dam Keeper, Book 1 by : Robert Kondo
Download or read book The Dam Keeper, Book 1 written by Robert Kondo and published by First Second Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Oscar]-nominated animated short film of the same name, "The Dam Keeper" is a lush, vibrantly drawn story by the cofounders of Tonko House about a young pig who is burdened with saving his village. Full color.
Book Synopsis Demolition of Ft. Meade Dam, Sturgis, South Dakota, June 1972 by : Bruce B. Redpath
Download or read book Demolition of Ft. Meade Dam, Sturgis, South Dakota, June 1972 written by Bruce B. Redpath and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portion of a flood-weakened concrete and masonry dam was deliberately demolished by explosives in June 1972 near Rapid City, South Dakota. The demolition was carried out to forestall the possibility of the dam's collapse in the event of renewed flooding during the period of devastating floods in Rapid City. An 80- by 25-foot segment on the left abutment was cleanly removed by 3000 pounds of explosives. The portion to be removed was outlined by explosively-loaded 2-inch diameter holes on 1-foot centers, the reinforced concrete panels were broken up by seven 150-pound surface charges, and the broken material was ejected by a 1700-pound cratering charge emplaced in a cavity in the dam. All explosives were detonated simultaneously. (Author).
Book Synopsis Environmental ScienceBites by : Kylienne A. Clark
Download or read book Environmental ScienceBites written by Kylienne A. Clark and published by The Ohio State University. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems. Topics are as diverse as the students, who represent virtually every department, school and college at OSU. The environmental issue that is described in each chapter is particularly important to the author, who hopes that their story will serve as inspiration to protect Earth for all life.
Book Synopsis Ecological Sustainability by : Robert B. Northrop
Download or read book Ecological Sustainability written by Robert B. Northrop and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complex systems is a new field of science studying how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interacts with its environment. This book examines the complex systems involved in environmental sustainability, and examines the technologies involved to help mitigate human impacts, such as renewable energy, desalination, carbon capture, recycling, etc. It considers the relationships and balance between environmental engineering and science, economics, and human activity, with regard to sustainability.
Download or read book Earth Materials written by Dexter Perkins and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a large and growing need for a textbook that can form the basis for integrated classes that look at minerals, rocks, and other Earth materials. Despite the need, no high-quality book is available for such a course. Earth Materials is a wide-ranging undergraduate textbook that covers all the most important kinds of (inorganic) Earth materials. Besides traditional chapters on minerals and rocks, this book features chapters on sediments and stratigraphy, weathering and soils, water and the hydrosphere, and mineral and energy deposits. Introductions to soil mechanics and rock mechanics are also included. This book steers away from the model of traditional encyclopedic science textbooks, but rather exposes students to the key and most exciting ideas and information, with an emphasis on thinking about Earth as a system. The book is written in such a manner as to support inquiry, discovery and other forms of active learning. All chapters start with a short topical story or vignette, and the plentiful photographs and other graphics are integrated completely with the text. Earth Materials will be interesting and useful for a wide range of learners, including geoscience students, students taking mineralogy and petrology courses, engineers, and anyone interested in learning more about the Earth as a system.
Book Synopsis Dam Maintenance and Rehabilitation by : M. Cabrera
Download or read book Dam Maintenance and Rehabilitation written by M. Cabrera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the life of a dam, changes in safety standards, legislation and land use will inevitably occur, and functional deterioration may also appear. To meet these challenges, these Proceedings from a panel of international experts assess, define and re-evaluate the design criteria for the construction of dams and the many attendant issues in on-going maintenance and management. Authors include international specialists: academics, professionals and those in local government, utilities and suppliers. Practitioners from these same fields will find the book a useful tool in acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of managing and retrofitting dams, so that they can continue to meet society's needs.
Book Synopsis Journal by : California. Legislature
Download or read book Journal written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Safety of Existing Dams by : National Research Council
Download or read book Safety of Existing Dams written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by civil engineers, dam safety officials, dam owners, geologists, hydraulic engineers, and risk analysts, this handbook is the first cooperative attempt to provide practical solutions to dam problems within the financial constraints faced by dam owners. It provides hands-on information for identifying and remedying common defects in concrete and masonry dams, embankment dams, reservoirs, and related structures. It also includes procedures for monitoring dams and collecting and analyzing data. Case histories demonstrate economical solutions to specific problems.
Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dams and Levees written by Kevin Reilly and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers discover the many ways in which dams and levees are marvels of modern engineering through accessible text and informative photographs. Each chapter focuses on an important aspect of these structures, including the history of their invention, examples of noteworthy dams and levees, related career paths, and stories of the tragedies that have occurred when dams and levees failed. This book's contents directly correlate with Next Generation Science Standards. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation and respect for the engineering behind dams and levees, and the influence these beautiful structures have on our society.
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Canada. Dept. of Railways and Canals
Download or read book Annual Report written by Canada. Dept. of Railways and Canals and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Irrigation Series. Bulletin by : Canada. Dominion Water and Power Bureau
Download or read book Irrigation Series. Bulletin written by Canada. Dominion Water and Power Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
