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The Proposed Los Angeles-Colorado River Aqueduct
This paper discusses the need, in Southern California cities, for water from the Colorado River, which is the only large unappropriated supply near this district. A description is given of several of the proposed routes that would ultimately divert 1 500 cu. ft. per sec. Two of these routes are unique in being gigantic pumping schemes, either of which would utilize a large block of power from the proposed Boulder Dam. Two others-gravity routes-are unusual in that they entail the driving of tunnels of heretofore undreamed of lengths. Surveys have been extended into 18 000 sq. miles of territory in the Colorado desert previously unmapped.
The Proposed Los Angeles-Colorado River Aqueduct
This paper discusses the need, in Southern California cities, for water from the Colorado River, which is the only large unappropriated supply near this district. A description is given of several of the proposed routes that would ultimately divert 1 500 cu. ft. per sec. Two of these routes are unique in being gigantic pumping schemes, either of which would utilize a large block of power from the proposed Boulder Dam. Two others-gravity routes-are unusual in that they entail the driving of tunnels of heretofore undreamed of lengths. Surveys have been extended into 18 000 sq. miles of territory in the Colorado desert previously unmapped.
The Proposed Los Angeles-Colorado River Aqueduct
Van Norman, H. A. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 94 ; 352-358
2021-01-01
71930-01-01 pages
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