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Irrigation -- California

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Harry F. Blaney papers

 Collection
Identifier: WRCA-143
Abstract

The collection consists of reports pertaining to consumptive water use by irrigated crops and native vegetation in desert areas of Southern California, Arizona, and other parts of the Southwest; to irrigation costs in California; to irrigation in Israel; and to irrigation and water supply studies of the Pecos, Colorado, and other rivers.

Dates: 1920-1970

Bernard A. Etcheverry papers

 Collection
Identifier: WRCA-037
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, hydrological data, maps and memoranda pertaining to reservoirs, canals, water delivery systems, flood control and irrigation projects, water supply and land appraisals throughout California and southern Oregon, with particular reference to units of the Central Valley Project.

Dates: 1903-1954

Sidney T. Harding papers

 Collection
Identifier: WRCA-041
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence; technical reports on various aspects of irrigation; reports and surveys of specific irrigation projects throughout California, and in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota; and miscellaneous material relating to water costs and requirements, water rights, groundwater and surface water supply, flood control, legislation, dendroclimatology, enclosed lakes, and the Central Valley Project and Feather River Project in California.

Dates: 1912-1969

Thomas H. Means papers

 Collection
Identifier: WRCA-056
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence and reports concerning the Colorado River and flooding in the Imperial Valley, the Hetch Hetchy Project, Los Angeles water supply, the Southern Sierra Power Company, the salinity of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, flood control and irrigation projects, groundwater, and land appraisal throughout California and other western states.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1905-1958

Fred H. Tibbetts and E.E. Blackie papers

 Collection
Identifier: WRCA-078
Abstract

This collection consists of engineering reports on water development in California.

Dates: 1910-1940