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St. Francis Dam Disaster
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: John Nichols
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10-01 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Minutes before midnight on the evening of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed. The dam's 200-foot concrete wall crumpled, sending billions of gallons
Heavy Ground
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Norris Hundley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-26 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Minutes beforeÊmidnightÊon March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than 12 billion gallons of water surging through CaliforniaÕs Santa Cl
The St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Doyce Blackman Nunis
Categories: Dam failures
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher:

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The St. Francis Dam was built in San Francisquito Canyon to provide additional storage for the Los Angeles - Owens River Aqueduct. On the night of 12/13 March 1
Cadillac Desert
Language: en
Pages: 674
Authors: Marc Reisner
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-06-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite th
Dams and Public Safety
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Robert B. Jansen
Categories: Dam failures
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher:

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