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Flood dams and reservoirs

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• Dams
• Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering)
• Flood control
• Reservoirs

• Fishways

• Flood control dams

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

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)

• The Palisades Dam and Reservoir Project: Hearings Before a Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Public Lands, House of Representatives, and a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-First Congress, 1st Session, on H. R. 5506 (Washington: GPO, 1949), by United States House Committee on Public Lands and United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (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)

• Water Resources Reports and Data in the Bernard A. Etcheverry Collection (Archives Series Report #1; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1958), ed. by Morrill G. Folsom and Wilma J. Woodward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin: An Evaluation (1995), 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)

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• The Nation's Response to Flood Disasters: A Historical Account (Madison: Association of State Floodplain Managers, 2000), by James M. Wright, ed. by Wendy L. Hessler (PDF at floods.org)

• Issues and Options in Flood Hazards Management (Washington: GPO, 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles (PDF at University of Calgary)

• A Wheelchair Rider's Guide: San Francisco Bay and the Nearby Coast (c2006), by Bonnie Lewkowicz (PDF at ca.gov)

• Yangtze! Yangtze!, by Dai Qing, ed. by Patricia Adams and John Thibodeau (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Yangtze! Yangtze!, by Dai Qing, ed. by Patricia Adams and John Thibodeau (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Quaternary Shorelines in the Hawaiian Islands (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #237; Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1978), by Harold T. Stearns (PDF at Bishop Museum)

• The Palisades Dam and Reservoir Project: Hearings Before a Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Public Lands, House of Representatives, and a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-First Congress, 1st Session, on H. R. 5506 (Washington: GPO, 1949), by United States House Committee on Public Lands and United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Lake Maxinkuckee (published with Fishes and Fishing in the Lake; The Maxinkuckee Lake Association; The Aubbeenaubbee Yacht Club; 1905), by Daniel McDonald, contrib. by A. C. Capron, W. T. Wilson, and T. H. Wilson (illustratedd HTML and page images at Indiana)

• History of Lake Maxinkuckee (published with Fishes and Fishing in the Lake; The Maxinkuckee Lake Association; The Aubbeenaubbee Yacht Club; 1905), by Daniel McDonald, contrib. by A. C. Capron, W. T. Wilson, and T. H. Wilson (illustratedd HTML and page images at Indiana)

• 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)

• The Chosin Reservoir Campaign (U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, v3; Washington: Historical Branch, G-3, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1957), by Lynn Montross and Nicholas A. Canzona, contrib. by K. Jack Bauer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quabbin: The Lost Valley (Ware, MA: Quabbin Book House, 1951), by Donald W. Howe, ed. by Roger Nye Lincoln, illust. by Elizabeth Howe Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Attractions of Lake George and Vicinity: Hotels, Mountain Peaks, Views, Drives, Places of Interest and General Information; Lake Luzerne, Schroon Lake, and Blue Mountain Lake (edition for 1885) (at ebooks.library.cornell.edu)

• A Survey of Vegetation in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir Basin (University of Utah Anthropological Papers #45; 1960), by Angus M. Woodbury, Stephen David Durrant, and Seville Flowers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hidden Dangers of Urban Stormwater (ca. 1977), by United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water Program Operations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Freshwater Microplastics: Emerging Environmental Contaminants? (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), ed. by Martin Wagner and Scott Lambert (PDF and EPub with commentary at Springer)
• Water Quality Criteria (second edition; Sacramento, CA: Resources Agency of California, 1963), by California State Water Quality Control Board, ed. by Jack Edward McKee and Harold W. Wolf, contrib. by United States Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control (page images at HathiTrust)
• Algae and Water Pollution: An Illustrated Manual on the Identification, Significance, and Control of Algae in Water Supplies and in Polluted Water (Cincinnati: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1977), by C. Mervin Palmer, ed. by Ronald F. Lewis, illust. by Harold J. Walter and Sharon Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water Chlorine (Residual) No. 1, Study Number 35: Report of a Study Conducted by Analytical Reference Service (Cincinnati: U.S. Public Health Service, Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, Environmental Control Administration, 1969), by Raymond J. Lishka, Earl F. McFarren, and J. H. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water Pollution Data: Regional Water Pollution Control Boards, State of California (Archives Series Report #5; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1959), ed. by Gerald J. Giefer and Cynthia Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diazinon and Chlorpyrifos Loads in the San Joaquin River Basin, California, January and February 2000, by Charles R. Kratzer, Celia Zamora, and Donna L. Knifong (PDF at USGS)

• Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems: What Can Be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience, by National Research Council Committee on Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Transport, Fate, and Effects of Silver in the Environment (6 volumes; 1993-1999) (full serial archives)

• On the Banks of the Gaṅgā: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Kelly D. Alley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Western Maryland Mine Drainage Survey, 1962-1965 (7 parts in 3 volumes), by Thomas C. Hopkins (PDF files at mdsoar.org)

• Waterkeeper (2004-) (full serial archives)

• Hazardous Materials in the Hydrologic Environment: The Role of Research by the U.S. Geological Survey (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Spills of Nonfloating Oils: Risk and Response, by National Research Council Marine Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

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