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Author : William Richard Bigger
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ISBN 13 : 9781258761523
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Flood Control in Metropolitan Los Angeles written by William Richard Bigger and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309093163
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Flash Flood Forecasting Over Complex Terrain written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation's network of more than 130 Next Generation Radars (NEXRADs) is used to detect wind and precipitation to help National Weather Service forecasters monitor and predict flash floods and other storms. This book assesses the performance of the Sulphur Mountain NEXRAD in Southern California, which has been scrutinized for its ability to detect precipitation in the atmosphere below 6000 feet. The book finds that the Sulphur Mountain NEXRAD provides crucial coverage of the lower atmosphere and is appropriately situated to assist the Los Angeles-Oxnard National Weather Service Forecast Office in successfully forecasting and warning of flash floods. The book concludes that, in general, NEXRAD technology is effective in mountainous terrain but can be improved.
Author : Richard Bigger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Flood Control in Metropolitan Los Angeles written by Richard Bigger and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Deverell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292421
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Water and Los Angeles written by William Deverell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Los Angeles rose to significance in the first half of the twentieth century by way of its complex relationship to three rivers: the Los Angeles, the Owens, and the Colorado. The remarkable urban and suburban trajectory of southern California since then cannot be fully understood without reference to the ways in which each of these three river systems came to be connected to the future of the metropolitan region. This history of growth must be understood in full consideration of all three rivers and the challenges and opportunities they presented to those who would come to make Los Angeles a global power. Full of primary sources and original documents, Water and Los Angeles will be of interest to both students of Los Angeles and general readers interested in the origins of the city.
Author : Blake Gumprecht
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801866425
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (664 download)
Download or read book The Los Angeles River written by Blake Gumprecht and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers Three centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycamore. Trout spawned in its waters and grizzly bears roamed its shores. The bountiful environment the river helped create supported one of the largest concentrations of Indians in North America. Today, the river is made almost entirely of concrete. Chain-link fence and barbed wire line its course. Shopping carts and trash litter its channel. Little water flows in the river most of the year, and nearly all that does is treated sewage and oily street runoff. On much of its course, the river looks more like a deserted freeway than a river. The river's contemporary image belies its former character and its importance to the development of Southern California. Los Angeles would not exist were it not for the river, and the river was crucial to its growth. Recognizing its past and future potential, a potent movement has developed to revitalize its course. The Los Angeles River offers the first comprehensive account of a river that helped give birth to one of the world's great cities, significantly shaped its history, and promises to play a key role in its future.
Author : Norris Hundley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224566
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Great Thirst written by Norris Hundley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-07-02 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization of farmland and open spaces, persisting despoliation of water supplies, and demands for equity in water allocation for an exploding population. People the world over confront these problems, and Hundley examines them with clarity and eloquence in the unruly laboratory of California. The obsession with water has shaped California to a remarkable extent, literally as well as politically and culturally. Hundley tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers. The desire to use, profit from, manipulate, and control water drives the people and events in this fascinating narrative until, by the end of the twentieth century, a large, colorful cast of characters and communities has wheeled and dealed, built, diverted, and connived its way to an entirely different statewide waterscape.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Water Resources Development written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1981 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Water Resources Development ; Cost-sharing Aspects of President's Water Policy Initiatives written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195118025
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Endangered Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Starr's portrait of California during the Great Depression is both detailed and panoramic. The study offers a vivid look at the personalities and events that shaped a decade of explosive tension.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030948961X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United States written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming more severe over time. Catastrophic flooding from recent hurricanes, including Superstorm Sandy in New York (2012) and Hurricane Harvey in Houston (2017), caused billions of dollars in property damage, adversely affected millions of people, and damaged the economic well-being of major metropolitan areas. Flooding takes a heavy toll even in years without a named storm or event. Major freshwater flood events from 2004 to 2014 cost an average of $9 billion in direct damage and 71 lives annually. These figures do not include the cumulative costs of frequent, small floods, which can be similar to those of infrequent extreme floods. Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United States contributes to existing knowledge by examining real-world examples in specific metropolitan areas. This report identifies commonalities and variances among the case study metropolitan areas in terms of causes, adverse impacts, unexpected problems in recovery, or effective mitigation strategies, as well as key themes of urban flooding. It also relates, as appropriate, causes and actions of urban flooding to existing federal resources or policies.
Author : United States. Congress. House
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 2152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1396 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Public Works for Water and Power Development and Energy Research Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1384 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1983 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1918 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Key to Meteorological Records Documentation written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
