Oroville Dam

This photograph was taken on a field trip to Elora Gorge. Elora Gorge is an important landscape in Ontario and is also a prime example of significant change to a landscape by physical processes. Largely, it is the result of erosion by water at the end of the last glacial period. The most recent glacier over North America, the Laurentide Ice Sheet, resided almost all over Canada. Eventually, the sheet melted, allowing water possessing a strong stream discharge to be released in numerous directions

This documentary is about a group of engineering experts who attempted to recreate the famous Rainbow Bridge depicted in the Quingming Scroll, created in the time of the Song Dynasty. A multinational team, compromised of Professor Tang, multiple engineering experts and native Chinese workers come together to decipher how the Rainbow Bridge was actually made, because the bridge itself and any blueprints for it have long since been lost to time. The entirety of the documentary focuses on completing

a much larger margin of positive ways it affected the community than negative ways. The Yuma Project had a negative impact on the steamer companies that used the Colorado river to take shipments upriver to other places. They could not get past dams that were built not long after business started booming. When the Yuma Project had just started to be developed, there were a lot of kinks to work out. The canals were extremely shoddy and flooded

the Los Angeles aqueduct, a 200-mile system to transfer water from Owens Valley to the San Fernando Valley. In March 1928, the St. Francis Dam failed and Mulholland’s career was in shambles. In the article Villain or Visionary, written by Eve Bachrach, Mullholland’s career and achievements are put in question. Opinions of Mulholland diverge once the dam fails. Bachrach’s article asks the question, “Was he motivated by greed, played by the rich men who hoped to be made richer by a secure water

of Yellowstone National Park and flows through Idaho and Oregon before finally emptying into the Columbia River in Washington. Fifteen dams have been built on the 1040 mile Snake River and its tributaries, mainly for purposes of providing irrigation water and hydroelectric power, ranging in size from small diversion dams to major high dams. While the many dams have transformed the region's economy, they have also had an adverse environmental effect on wildlife, most notably on wild salmon migrations

John Strong Newberry first introduced the idea of Lake Overflow in 1861 after discovering that the Bidahochi Formation, an old lake basin, at times was dry and at other times held freshwater. This led to Newberry to propose the first hypothesis. Essentially Newberry came to the conclusion that a lake ponded behind a structure and eventually over spilled on a low spot of that structure incising the Grand Canyon (Intro Part 1). Although Newberry didn’t provide much evidence to support his claim, a

Below the Mogollon Rim near Payson runs the East Verde River, a waterway that is supplemented with discharge of water collected on The Rim at CC. Cragin Reservoir. According to Clay Thompson of the Arizona Republic, the area gets its name from the mechanization of the water’s power through a metal water wheel fashioned from milk cans that was used by gold miner James “Dave” Greer to crush ore and supply a sluice box with water. The United States Geological Survey pinpoints the waterway’s rate of

Bull Creek is a 45-50 acre dog-friendly natural park and swimming hole owned/managed by the city of Austin. The stream running through the center is perennial and runs over a small man-made damn. The park is close to Loop 360 and there is ample parking at several points along the hiking path. Bull Creek is mainly popular as a hiking spot you can bring your dogs to, rock climbing off of one particular granite face, and swimming. We did not swim on our visit because we had our kids with us and the

Buttes West and East Mitten Buttes Monument Valley, Utah 36° 59.3857 N 110°04.8213 W An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top External forces like weathering and erosion create buttes. Streams slowly cut through a mesa or plateau Buttes aren’t populated and people don’t migrate there because they are isolated and usually in desserts. There’s no water or (soil for food). People can’t survive in buttes. Society, National Geographic. "Butte." National Geographic Society. © 1996-2016 National

The St. Francis Dam was built in 1926 in the month of May by William Mulholland. Mulholland used concrete as the material to build the damn. The St. Francis Dam was Mulholland’s first concrete based dam. He had previous experience with earthen dams but decided to practice outside of his expertise and use concrete. This decision was was because the mountainous site lacked the sufficient amount of clay or water to construct hydraulic fills. The design of the downstream of the dam was a wide set of