Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Category : Crops and water
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Category : Reclamation of land
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Category : Reclamation of land
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: United States. Department of the Interior
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2374

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1116

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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1740

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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Author: United States. Department of the Interior
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 898

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Author: Michael W. Straus
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332708911
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, to the Secretary of the Interior: Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1949 At the end of the year, construction was in progress 011 23 storage dams and 1 diversion dam, 9 power plants, 22 pumping plants, 440 miles of main canals, and miles of transmission lines. The rate of construction progress 011 many projects was greater than had been anticipated. For example, the construction of Jackson Gulch Dam on the Mancos project in Colorado was scheduled for completion by April 1950 but was actually, completed in December 1948. 'by the end of the fiscal year, construction on O'sullivan Dam on the Columbai Basin project was virtually completed with only 62 percent of the contract time elapsed; thus completion was approximately 18 months earlier than was required by the contract. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Patrick Dearen
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806154608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes.

Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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