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Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles, Jon Wilkman
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- Summary
- A visionary and controversial search for water made Los Angeles possible. But the failure of the St. Francis Dam remains an urgent lesson about our human limits, all but forgotten today
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620409152
- Label
- Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles
- Title
- Floodpath
- Title remainder
- the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles
- Statement of responsibility
- Jon Wilkman
- Title variation
- Flood path
- Subject
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- 1900 - 1999
- trueAqueducts -- Los Angeles, California
- California
- California -- Los Angeles
- California -- Saint Francis Dam
- California -- Santa Clara River
- Dam failures
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- Floodplains
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- Floods
- trueFloods -- California
- Floods -- California | Santa Clara River
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- History
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
- trueLos Angeles, California -- History -- 20th century
- Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
- trueSaint Francis Dam, California
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Dams & Reservoirs
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply
- trueWater-supply -- Los Angeles, California -- History
- trueWater-supply engineering
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A visionary and controversial search for water made Los Angeles possible. But the failure of the St. Francis Dam remains an urgent lesson about our human limits, all but forgotten today
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- 10465271
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- Wilkman, Jon
- Dewey number
- 363.34/930979493
- Index
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Floods
- Dam failures
- Floodplains
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Dams & Reservoirs
- Dam failures
- Floodplains
- Floods
- Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- California
- California
- California
- California
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- the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles
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- Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles, Jon Wilkman
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 1488458
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- 25 cm
- Extent
- 326 pages
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- 9781620409152
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- (hardcover)
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- 2015015372
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- (Sirsi) i9781620409152
- (OCoLC)907966087
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- Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles, Jon Wilkman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- nc
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- 326 pages
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Subject
- 1900 - 1999
- trueAqueducts -- Los Angeles, California
- California
- California -- Los Angeles
- California -- Saint Francis Dam
- California -- Santa Clara River
- Dam failures
- trueDam failures -- California -- History -- 20th century
- Floodplains
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- Floods
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- Floods -- California | Santa Clara River
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- History
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
- trueLos Angeles, California -- History -- 20th century
- Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
- trueSaint Francis Dam, California
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Dams & Reservoirs
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply
- trueWater-supply -- Los Angeles, California -- History
- trueWater-supply engineering
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