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Comprehensive survey of sedimentation in Lake Mead, 1948-49

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Title Comprehensive survey of sedimentation in Lake Mead, 1948-49
 
Creator Smith, W. O.
Vetter, C. P.
Cummings, G. B.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
 
Description Reservoirs are becoming an increasingly prominent feature of the American landscape. Built for flood mitigation and to change a fluctuating river into a dependable source of water for irrigation, power, and other purposes, they are predestined, like natural lakes, to be destroyed sometime following their creation. Sedimentation sooner or later robs most lakes and reservoirs of their capacity to store water. The significance of sedimentation in the life of Lake Mead, the largest artificial...
 
Date 1960-01-01
 
Type text
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/water_pubs/107
http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1112&context=water_pubs
 
Source Publications (WR)
 
Publisher Digital Scholarship@UNLV
 
Subject Impoundments
Lake Mead (Ariz. and Nev.)
Salinity
Sedimentation
Water quality
Water temperature
Biochemistry
Biology, general
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Monitoring
Geology
Hydrology
Natural Resources Management and Policy
Structural Engineering
Water Resource Management
 
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