Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water-Power, and Domestic Water-Supply

Abstract

THE title-page of this book states that it also contains “an account of various types of dams, and the methods and plans of their construction; together with a discussion of the available water-supply for irrigation in various sections of arid America; the distribution, application, and use of water; the rainfall and run-off; the evaporation from reservoirs; and the effect of silt on reservoirs.” The book was, accordingly, designed to embrace all the main questions relating to the construction of reservoirs, together with the distribution and use of the water stored up; but in reality the different methods of construction of reservoir dams, descriptions of numerous examples in the United States, and references to the works required for several projected reservoirs constitute the principal subjects dealt with. The most remarkable feature, however, of the book is the abundance of views of reservoir dams, reservoirs, and proposed sites for reservoirs, comprising a large proportion of the one hundred and eighty-three illustrations, which should prove very attractive to the general public; whilst the plans and sections of dams and other contingent works, maps of reservoirs and of proposed sites for reservoirs with contour lines, and twenty-five folding plates, in an appendix, of reservoir sites in California and the Lahontan and Arkansas River basins, and of the Sun River system of reservoirs in Montana, will appeal mainly to engineers.

Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water-Power, and Domestic Water-Supply.

By James D. Schuyler Pp. xviii + 414. (New York: John Wiley and Sons. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1901.)