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This collection contains 1,182 photographs mainly from the 1920s to the 1960s. The photographs show irrigation methods from the early 1900s to 1950s including irrigation field trials in the Western United States...

! 1958 congressional record —house 5189 New York and Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 394, Eighty-fourth Congress, and there is hereby...
2009-04-01
Problem areas identified are: The needs a) to develop curve fitting procedures to estimate flood flow distributions; b) to incorporate precipitation data into frequency analysis procedures; and c) to better define flood potentials for ungauged...
1978-05-18 (iso8601)
The Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposes to designate critical habitat for the Lost River sucker {Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose sucker [Chasmistes brevirostris), two species federally listed as endangered pursuant to the Endangered...
1994-12-01
2008-08-19
2005-06-21
Floods and ensuing damage have always been a problem for man. Initial reaction to the frequent destruction was to avoid siting permanent domiciles on flood-prone lands. As a result of increasing population and pressure for development, flood...
1974-05-03 (iso8601)
September 13, same station.—Flood, 3 hours ; ebb, 2 hours and 31 minutes. This day showed same directions for flood, ebb, and turn as the preceding. Throughout the flood and first of the ebb, the surface current remained to the right of the...

In February of 1996, flooding of the South Fork of the Palouse River, and other small streams, inundated parts of Pullman, Washington. Major flooding was averted largely due to sandbagging efforts that were arranged spontaneously by citizen...
1996-04-28
The purpose of this study was to estimate the agricultural benefits due to flood protection provided by the proposed Trinity River Project. The area examined was the land located between the 100-year flood plain with the project and without the...
2011-07-01
2011-07-01
1976-07-01
The purpose of this study was to estimate the agricultural benefits due to flood protection provided by the proposed Trinity River Project. The area examined was the land located between the 100-year flood plain with the project and without the...
2011-07-01
2011-07-01
1976-07-01
Title from Web page (viewed on October 12, 2004).; "July 2004." ; Includes bibliographical references.
2024-04-28
2008-03-27
2005-10-12
The collection includes labeled negatives, nitrate negatives, prints, unidentified images, and scrapbooks showing the results of environmental change on farm land especially due to erosion from 1930 into the 1960s. Though focused on that change in...

A method of updating flood inundation maps at a fraction of the expense of using traditional methods was piloted in Washington State as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Urban Geologic and Hydrologic Hazards Initiative. Large savings in expense...
2024-04-28
1958 congressional -record — house- mm tions of the. Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 192, Eighty-fifth Congress, at an estimated cost'of $4,359,000. "Gila River Basin "The comprehensive plan of improvement for the Gila River between...
2009-04-01
There is growing evidence that flood mitigation is often inefficient because individuals misestimate flood risk. The propensity to misestimate flood risk is expected to rise because climate change ensures the past will be a poor predictor of the...
2019-03-08
Utah is subjected to flash flooding in mountain canyons, mudflows and shallow water flooding on lowlands at the canyon outlets, storm water flooding after thunderstorms in urban areas, and prolonged periods of...
1980-01-01
958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — S. v'g wanted to strengthen the existing * fuage, not weaken it. ar. BARRETT. If the history of the lation and the efforts of the con--je%s will bear out the interpretation *f<\ I am sure will be given to this lan-ffe,...
2009-04-01
A Professional Project Report Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Water Resources Policy/Management Concentration, Water Resources Program, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico,December...
2010-04-04
2010-04-04
2010-04-04
2005-10-13
Reservoir systems in the western US are managed to serve two main competing purposes: to reduce flooding during the winter and spring, and to provide water supply for multiple uses during the summer. Because the storage capacity of a reservoir...
2015-04-30 (iso8601)
"July 2003."; "GAO-03-514."
2024-04-28
2005-07-22
2005-05-03
RELEASE OF COLORADO RIVER WATER™ On April 1,1962, application of the flood control regulations would have required the release of an average of 20,000 cubic feet per second during April. This is equivalent to a monthly total of 1,190,000 acre-feet...
RELEASE OF COLORADO RIVER WATER 9 On April 1,1962, application of the flood control regulations would have required the release of an average of 20,000 cubic feet per second during April. This is equivalent to a monthly total of 1,190,000...
ABSTRACT The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lower Columbia River Fishery Resource Office was funded by Bureau of Indian Affairs to conduct an instream flow assessment for the lower Klamath River within the Yurok Indian Reservation in northern...

2007-12-28
2006-02-22
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