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The Construction of the Sweetwater Dam
The question of an adequate water supply for irrigation as well as for the domestic use of cities and towns, is one which, in San Diego County, California, necessarily involves storage reservoirs. The streams of the county are of an intermittent character. The mountain ranges in which they head and from which they flow to the coast do not generally exceed 6000 to 6500 feet in elevation—an altitude too low in the latitude of San Diego to maintain perpetual snow upon their summits, or even to retain such proportion of the winter precipitation as comes in the form of snow (not usually more than ten per cent.) for more than a few days or weeks.
The Construction of the Sweetwater Dam
The question of an adequate water supply for irrigation as well as for the domestic use of cities and towns, is one which, in San Diego County, California, necessarily involves storage reservoirs. The streams of the county are of an intermittent character. The mountain ranges in which they head and from which they flow to the coast do not generally exceed 6000 to 6500 feet in elevation—an altitude too low in the latitude of San Diego to maintain perpetual snow upon their summits, or even to retain such proportion of the winter precipitation as comes in the form of snow (not usually more than ten per cent.) for more than a few days or weeks.
The Construction of the Sweetwater Dam
Schuyler, James D. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 19 ; 201-218
2021-01-01
181888-01-01 pages
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