Download or read book The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900 written by Elizabeth H. Clare and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900 recreates the era of Gay Nineties Austin, then--as now--a city on the rise and on the make. In 1891, at the behest of ambitious city fathers, the little city of just 15,000 people gambled its future on a project of breathtaking size--a massive hydroelectric dam across the Colorado River. This book follows the epic construction project and the brief golden era of the pleasure resort at Lake McDonald. Though troubled and controversial from the get-go, the dam embodied all of Austin's dreams. Then, on Friday, April 6, 1900, it began to rain . . .
Download or read book The Austin Dam With Illustrations written by Thomas Ulvan TAYLOR and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report on the Dam and Water Power Development at Austin Texas written by Daniel Webster Mead and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report on the Dam and Water Power Development at Austin Texas written by Daniel Webster Mead and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Dam and Water Power Development at Austin, Texas: November, 1917 Plans and Specifications The Reconstruction Work The Contractor for the Work The Bond Issue Work Apparently Nearing Completion Difficulties Arise Financial Collapse Period of Investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Report for City of Austin Texas on Power Losses and Property Values of Austin Dam written by Hawley, Freese & Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report for City of Austin Texas on the Construction of a Low Dam in the Colorado River written by Austin (Tex.). Construction Engineering Department and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Dam and Water Power Development at Austin Texas written by Mead Daniel Webster 1862- and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book An Estimate of the Cost for Rebuilding the Austin Dam written by Edwin Herman John and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority written by John Williams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power—and with that, modern-day civilization—to the hard-scrabble regions of Central and South Texas. With those achievements, and the support of powerful political leaders like Lyndon Johnson, LCRA for years was touted as one of the state’s major success stories. But LCRA has never been a stranger to controversy, and while it continues to provide much of the energy and water that fuels the economic engine of Austin and beyond, most people know very little about LCRA. In this book, readers will learn about the forces of nature and politics that combined to create LCRA; the colorful personalities who operated, supported, or fought with the agency; its spectacular successes, periodic blunders, and occasional failures; and its evolution into one of the largest public power organizations in Texas. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Download or read book City in a Garden written by Andrew M. Busch and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity. From the beginning, city leaders, residents, planners, and employers consistently imagined Austin as a natural place, highlighting the region's environmental attributes as they marketed the city and planned for its growth. Yet, as Austin modernized and attracted an educated and skilled labor force, the demand to preserve its natural spaces was used to justify economic and racial segregation. This effort to create and maintain a "city in a garden" perpetuated uneven social and economic power relationships throughout the twentieth century. In telling Austin's story, Andrew M. Busch invites readers to consider the wider implications of environmentally friendly urban development. While Austin's mainstream environmental record is impressive, its minority groups continue to live on the economic, social, and geographic margins of the city. By demonstrating how the city's midcentury modernization and progressive movement sustained racial oppression, restriction, and uneven development in the decades that followed, Busch reveals the darker ramifications of Austin's green growth.
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