Columbia River Estuary Model Study collection

Collection

Identifier: WRCA-092

Staff Only

Collection Scope and Contents

The collection consists of reports and other documents related to the Columbia River Estuary Model Study, a project built and tested from 1932-1936 at the University of California, Berkeley, to study the effects of proposed changes in the navigation channels of the Columbia River.

Dates

Creation: 1921-1936
Creation: Majority of material found within 1932-1936

Languages

The collection is in English.

Access

The collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for obtaining... permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Historical Note

Under the leadership of Morrough P. O'Brien, a model of the estuary of the Columbia River was built and tested at the University of California, Berkeley, to study the effects of proposed changes in the navigation channels on currents and sediment movement. The project was sponsored by the North Pacific Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and was called the "U.S. Tidal Model Laboratory." A description of the work can be found in "Field and... laboratory studies, navigation channels of the Columbia River Estuary," Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Coastal Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1972, p. 2475-2498.

Extent

3.0 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

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Additional Description

Abstract

Collection Arrangement

The collection is arranged topically.

Acquisition Information

Provenance unknown.

Related Collections

Morrough P. O'Brien papers (WRCA 059)

Processing History

Processed by Randal Brandt, WRCA Technical Services Librarian, and Kristen Laughridge, 1999.

Collection Number

Collection number updated December 2018. Legacy collection number was MS 79/7. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019 to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.