{"product_id":"ethical-issues-from-the-st-j-paul-guyer-9781490563893","title":"Ethical Issues from the St. Francis Dam Failure","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Paul Guyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 149056389X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781490563893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.06d","brand":"J. Paul Guyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48518649151743,"sku":"9781490563893","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb92e108-f2ef-402b-9713-6ceacbfc8421.jpg?v=1778735114","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ethical-issues-from-the-st-j-paul-guyer-9781490563893","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}