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Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering)

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• Structures, Diversion (Hydraulic engineering)

• River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Construction of Hoover Dam: Preliminary Investigations, Design of Dam, and Progress of Construction (Washington: GPO, 1933), by Ray L. Wilbur, Elwood Mead, and United States Department of the Interior
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity: Letter From the Secretary of the Interior Transmitting Pursuant to Law a Report by the Director of the Reclamation Service on Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity With Respect to Irrigation from the Colorado; Together With the Proceedings of the Conference on the Construction of the Boulder Canyon Dam Held at San Diego, Calif. (Washington: GPO, 1922), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don't Want You to Know (second edition, 1993), ed. by Margaret Barber and Gráinne Ryder (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Diane E. Boyer and Robert H. Webb (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Kentucky Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction and Initial Operations of the Kentucky Project (TVA technical report #13; Washington: GPO, 1951), by Tennessee Valley Authority (page images at HathiTrust)

• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nile Reservoir Dam at Assuân, and After (second edition; London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1903), by William Willcocks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Assuân Reservoir and Lake Moeris (London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1904), by William Willcocks
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kortes Dam and Powerplant: Technical Record of Design and Construction (1959), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

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• Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging of Navigational Facilities in Estuaries, by National Research Council Committee on Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging in Estuaries (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie; Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges (based on the J. Murray popular edition of 1904; with additional recent illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Report on Light-House Construction and Illumination (Chennai: Superintendent, Government Press, 1895), by F. W. Ashpitel
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)

• Dredging Coastal Ports: An Assessment of the Issues (1985), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Aqueduct Hunting in the Seventeenth Century: Raffaello Fabretti's De Aquis et Aquaeductibus Veteris Romae (translation and commentary; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Raffaele Fabretti, ed. by Harry B. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water Distribution in Ancient Rome: The Evidence of Frontinus (paperback edition with new preface; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), by Harry B. Evans, contrib. by Sextus Julius Frontinus (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Restoration of the Name of Jefferson Davis to the Cabin John Bridge, Washington, District of Columbia: Being the Official Correspondence Leading to This Restoration (New Orleans: Confederated Southern Memorial Association, 1909), ed. by Mrs. J. Enders Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Building of the Roman Aqueducts (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #423; 1934), by Esther Boise Van Deman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Stability of Low-Latitude Sea-Surface Temperatures: An Evaluation of CLIMAP Reconstruction With Emphasis on the Positive SST Anomalies (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Carbon Dioxide Research Division, 1985), by Warren L. Prell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Renewable Ocean Energy Sources (2 parts; 1978-1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Part I (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion): page images at HathiTrust
  • Part II (Working Papers: Ocean Winds, Currents, Waves, Tides and Salinity Gradients; two copyrighted figures omitted): multiple formats at archive.org
• Recent Developments in Ocean Thermal Energy: A Technical Memorandum (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at fas.org

• Recent Developments in Ocean Thermal Energy: A Technical Memorandum (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at fas.org

• Closely Spaced Piles as a Breakwater (Berkeley: University of California, Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Wave Research Projects, 1961), by Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ship Collisions With Bridges: The Nature of the Accidents, Their Prevention and Mitigation (Washington: National Academy Press, 1983), by National Research Council Committee on Ship-Bridge Collisions
  • PDF at dtic.mil
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• My Holidays on Inland Waterways: 2000 Miles Cruising by Motor Boat and Pleasure Skiff on the Canals and Rivers of Great Britain (second edition; London: T. Murby and Co., 1917), by P. Bonthron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Documents Relative to the Susquehanna Canal Company (For the Extension of the Pennsylvania Canal to Tide Water on the Chesapeake) (Baltimore: Printed by Sands and Neilson, 1835), contrib. by Pennsylvania and Edward F. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Documents Relative to the Susquehanna Canal Company (For the Extension of the Pennsylvania Canal to Tide Water on the Chesapeake) (Baltimore: Printed by Sands and Neilson, 1835), contrib. by Pennsylvania and Edward F. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Board of Engineers on Deep Waterways Between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Tide Waters (2 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1900), by United States Board of Engineers on Deep Waterways (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)

• Contaminated Sediments in Ports and Waterways: Cleanup Strategies and Technologies, by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Ancient and Modern Light-Houses (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1889), by D. P. Heap (multiple formats at Google)
• A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World (London: R. H. Laurie, 1861), by Alexander George Findlay (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouse Construction and Illumination (London and New York: E. and F. N. Spon, 1881), by Thomas Stevenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at Google)
• The Lights and Tides of the World, Including a Description of All the Fog-Signals (fifth edition; London: Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson, 1904), by Henry D. Jenkins
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Lightships and Lighthouses (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: W. Heinemann, 1913), by Frederick A. Talbot (multiple formats at Google)
• The Modern Light-House Service (Washington: GPO, 1889), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)
• Our Seamarks: A Plain Account of the Lighthouses, Lightships, Beacons, Buoys, and Fog-Signals Maintaned on Our Coasts for the Guidance of Mariners (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1884), by E. Price Edwards (multiple formats at Google; US acces only)
• A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction, and Illumination of Lighthouses (London: J. Weale, 1850), by Alan Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• The Story of Our Lighthouses and Lightships, Descriptive and Historical (London et al.: T. Nelson and Co., 1891), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse, With Notes on the Illumination of Lighthouses (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black; London: Longman and Co., 1848), by Alan Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouses: Their History and Romance (New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell Co.; London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1895), by William John Hardy
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Smeaton and Lighthouses: A Popular Biography, With an Historical Introduction and Sequel (London: J. W. Parker, 1844) (multiple formats at Google)
• Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie; Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges (based on the J. Murray popular edition of 1904; with additional recent illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns, by Henry Charles Adams (Gutenberg text)

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