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River engineering

Here are entered works on the planning, design, construction, and operation of works of various kinds for the purpose of modifying natural river conditions to better serve human needs.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Hydraulic engineering
• Water resources development

• Dams
• Rivers -- Regulation
• Stream conservation

• Engineering, River

• 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)

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

• 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)

• Stream Reach Inventory and Channel Stability Evaluation: A Watershed Management Procedure (St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Region, 1975), by United States Forest Service Northern Region (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Whitewater Journal (partial serial archives)

• A Soil Bioengineering Guide For Streambank And Lakeshore Stabilization (San Dimas, CA: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Forest Service, Technology and Development Program, 2002), by Ellen Eubanks and Dexter Meadows (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Bachelor of Science Theses on Water Resources Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (Archives Series Report #6; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1959), by Gerald J. Giefer and Cynthia Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theses on Water Resources: Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, and University of Southern California (Archives Series Report #7; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1959), by Gerald J. Giefer, Lois Judd, and Cynthia Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• Principles and Practice of Flow Meter Engineering (seventh edition; Foxboro, MA: The Foxboro Co., 1949), by L. K. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook of Steam Flow Measurement (second edition; Foxboro, MA: The Foxboro Co., 1936), by L. K. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Houille Blanche (in French) (full serial archives)

• Journal of the American Water Works Association (partial serial archives)
• Municipal and County Engineering (full serial archives)
• Municipal Engineering (1896-1918) (full serial archives)
• Paving and Municipal Engineering (full serial archives)

• Cutting Experiments Using a Rotating Water Jet in a Borehole (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #8095, 1975), by G. A. Savanick, Thomas E. Ricketts, Peter D. Lohn, and Jacob N. Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water Well Drilling With Cable Tools (South Milwaukee, WI: Bucyrus-Erie Co., 1958), by Raymond W. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stability, Failure, and Measurements of Boreholes and Other Circular Openings, by U. S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics (illustrated HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health (New York: O. Judd and Co., 1867), by George E. Waring (page images at Cornell)
• Farm Drainage: The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles (New York: C. M. Saxton, Barker and Co., 1860), by Henry F. French (page images at Cornell)

• Performance of a Hydraulic Classifier Designed to Incorporate Four Hitherto Neglected Principles (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1945), by William Hawes Coghill, Glen Dale Coe, and I. L. Feld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold vs. Grain, the Hydraulic Mining Controversy in California's Sacramento Valley: A Chapter in the Decline of the Concept of Laissez Faire (Glendale, CA: A. H. Clark Co., 1959), by Robert Lloyd Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1885), by Aug. J. Bowie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Continuous Hydraulic Classification: Constitution of the Teeter Column Throughout Its Depth (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1946), by Glen Dale Coe, I. L. Feld, M. F. Williams, and William Hawes Coghill (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Assessment of Techniques for Removing Offshore Structures (1996), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Cutting Experiments Using a Rotating Water Jet in a Borehole (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #8095, 1975), by G. A. Savanick, Thomas E. Ricketts, Peter D. Lohn, and Jacob N. Frank (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.