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Box 2

 Container

Contains 19 Results:

Commonwealth Club of California, 1929-1930

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

Reports, addresses, remarks, etc., related to salt water barriers presented to various sections of the Club. Includes The salt water barrier, published in Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California, vol. 24, no. 9 (December 31, 1929).

Dates: 1929-1930

Analyses of proposals considered by the Hoover-Young Commission as solutions to the salt water encroachment problem in the upper reaches of San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 1930

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Letter reports to C. W. Schedler, President of the Association of Water Users of Contra Costa and Solano Counties, Pittsburg, Calif., dated December 8th and December 19th, respectively, written by H. W. Crozier, Consulting Engineer.

Dates: 1930

Report on Sacramento, San Joaquin Kern Rivers, California : prepared under provisions of H.Doc. no. 308, 69th Cong., 1st sess. Appendix "D", Tidal currents silt, circa 1930

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Includes: Study of tidal currents and silt movements in the San Francisco Bay Area with particular reference to the effect of a salt water barrier upon them / by C.I. Grimm, Principal Engineer.

Dates: circa 1930

Water problems of California, 1953-1955

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

Includes: Salt water barriers in the San Francisco Bay, by B. L. Nishkian (presented at San Francisco Convention, March 3-6, 1953, Waterways Division, American Society of Civil Engineers); Water problems of California, by O. W. Swainson (comments made in September 1955 on the feasibility of construction of barriers in the San Francisco Bay system; discusses the Biemond Plan).

Dates: 1953-1955

Bay Barriers, Incorporated, Petaluma, California, 1952-1962

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, addresses, etc., of Beaven J. Badger, President.

Dates: 1952-1962

San Francisco Salinity Control Barrier Investigation of the Water Project Authority of the State of California, 1953-1954

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

Investigation authorized by the Abshire-Kelly Salinity Control Barrier Act of 1953. Includes: Statement with regard to the San Francisco Salinity Control Barrier Investigation, by Herbert A. Howlett and second and third progress reports of the Board of Consultants.

Dates: 1953-1954

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Francisco District. Comprehensive survey of San Francisco Bay and tributaries, California: summary of appendices, exhibits and supplements, July 1963

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents

Survey examines several aspects of the feasibility of constructing salt water barriers. Includes: Chronological development of comprehensive San Francisco Bay survey. July 1963

Dates: July 1963