Ethical Issues from the St. Francis Dam Failure by Guyer, J. Paul

Ethical Issues from the St. Francis Dam Failure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781490563893)

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Ethical Issues from the St. Francis Dam Failure by Guyer, J. Paul

Ethical Issues from the St. Francis Dam Failure

$18.00
Ethical Issues from the St. Francis Dam Failure by Guyer, J. Paul

Ethical Issues from the St. Francis Dam Failure

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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At 11:56 PM on March 12, 1928, the concrete arch St. Francis Dam was a key element of the Los Angeles (California) Aqueduct. It was designed and constructed by the City of Los Angeles' Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to create a reservoir to store water brought via the Aqueduct from the Owens Valley in east central California to serve the burgeoning city of Los Angeles. It was a concrete gravity arch dam located about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles on San Francisquito Creek near the present day city of Santa Clarita, California. At 11:57 PM it collapsed catastrophically, releasing 12 billion gallons of flood waters downstream that reached a depth of 140 feet with average velocities estimated at 26 feet per second. By 5:30 AM on March 13 flood waters reached the Pacific Ocean at Montalvo (near Ventura), California. The flood killed more than 450 people and was the worst civil engineering failure in U.S. history.

Author: J. Paul Guyer
ISBN-10: 149056389X
ISBN-13: 9781490563893
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2013
Pages: 30
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.06d
By J. Paul Guyer
By J. Paul Guyer
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J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A. Paul Guyer is a registered civil engineer, mechanical engineer, fire protection engineer, and architect with over 35 years experience in the design of buildings and related infrastructure. For an additional 9 years he was a principal advisor to the California Legislature on infrastructure and capital outlay issues. He is a graduate of Stanford University and has held numerous national, state and local offices with the American Society of Civil Engineers, Architectural Engineering Institute and National Society of Professional Engineers.

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