The Oroville dam was built in 1968, in California. It lies on the Feather River, east of the city Oroville. The dam has many important uses including; flood control, hydroelectric power generation, water shortage, and water quality improvement in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Lake supplies up to 4.2 million acre-feet of water a year, Oroville is the biggest reservoir in the State Water Project, both to farmers and more than 25 million Californians who depend on it for at least part of their water supply. The Association of State Dam Safety Officials estimates the cost of known needed maintenances for the country’s 2,000 deficient, high-hazard dams at $21 billion. The United States has frequently underfunded dams, drinking water,
Bakersfield California. Home to the most talented high school pitcher in almost a decade. James Fuller is the nation 's top prospect and likely to be the number one overall pick in the draft. He is on one of the top teams in the state and in his first game he is pitching a gem. 6 ⅔ of innings in, he gets the sign, sets up, fires the pitch, strike three.
After visiting the Mission Hill area of Boston, it is easy to conclude that a family living in the area could mostly live off of local businesses for their basic needs. Once farmland, Mission Hill now includes hospitals, cheap housing for smaller families and college students, and plenty of local businesses for food. On average, families in the area are left over with $84.13 per week to spend on necessities. If budgeted right, this money could be spent on local businesses that fill the area instead of citizens going outside of Mission Hill to buy from larger corporations.
Pearl Woodrum saw her fears realized when the dam burst in 1972. As the residents of Buffalo Creek slept soundly in their beds, they would not be able to envision the horrors that would occur on that dreary February morning. They knew that any time there was a substantial amount of rainfall in Buffalo Creek, the creek would rise and the lack of an early warning system meant they might never know if a heavy rain heralded disaster until it was too late. Residents also knew that the dam was not stable, a fact the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed when it concluded that the dam was “basically stable but could be overtopped and breached.” William Davies was the federal geologist who conducted the study and stated that if the dam broke, “flood and debris would damage a church and two or three houses downstream, cover the road and wash out the railroad.”
As Stephen Ambrose once said, “dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.” The W. A. C. Bennett Dam is a hydroelectric dam that was built from 1961 - 1968 on the Peace River in the north of British Columbia. It combines with the Finlay, the Parsnip Rivers and feeds into feed into Williston Lake. The area around this dam consists of volcanic and non-volcanic igneous and metamorphosed mountains that were built by nature during the Paleozoic era. Though it has provided many economic benefits, the damaging social and ecological harms cannot be overlooked when they present themselves as threats to the sustainability of the surrounding area.
My hometown is Chicago, and I believe that Laramie has more differences than similarities. For example, in Laramie they just acted as if they LGBT community did not exist, however, in Chicago, we have a gay pride parade each year to celebrate this community and their attributes to Chicago. Furthermore, in Laramie, they didn’t see Matthew Shepherd dead as a hate crime, but in Chicago, we take this type of crime very seriously because Chicago is a very diverse city and people need to be able to feel safe. Also, in Laramie, when the advocacy for gay and lesbian was started they were seen as different and people didn’t understand why they were making a big deal about the crime. But, in Chicago, there are many advocacies for LGBT community and people
Glen Canyon Dam was built to provide much needed power to Phoenix. President Eisenhower greenlit the project and the Bureau of Reclamation was the force behind its construction. Although the Sierra Club fought against building the dam, their efforts were not successful. Its creation decimated the natural ecosystems, fish that had evolved to survive in its silty water died as clear colder water came out of the dam. Archeologically the dam also represented a loss, as thousand-year-old petroglyph panes and caved dwelling of the Anasazi became submerged.
Has the lack of water supply affected your life in the past three years? California has been in a drought recently, and there has been a great decrease in citizen water possession. The state should regulate water usage because people are using too much water, and it is affecting other people. There have been many cases of water shortages in communities. “For Angelica Gallegos, the worst part has been going without a shower for five months.”
Alameda is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is found on Alameda Island and Bay Farm Island, and is neighboring and west of Oakland and in eastern San Francisco Bay throughout San Francisco and South San Francisco, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Straight Farm Island, a bit of which is otherwise called "Harbor Bay Isle", is not really an island, and is a piece of the territory adjoining the Oakland International Airport. The city 's evaluated 2014 populace was 75,988. Alameda is a sanction city, instead of a general law city, permitting the city to accommodate any type of government.
Excellent post Jose! The city of Mukilteo appears to have other problems in addition to a lack of internal controls there seems to be a sense of coercive power at work here. Interestingly, the inner workings of city leadership can be wonderful or corrupt. Often citizens in positions of city and county government offices simply decide that items issues not deemed to promote their future political ambitions should not be budgeted for. Moreover, someone with decision making power for this city likely decided that funds should be spent elsewhere rather than investing in ensuring proper accounting procedures were followed.
Pleasant Bluffs: Launching A Home-Base Hospital Program While analyzing the case on Pleasants Bluffs, the main problem is how will they come up with a proposal for the pilot program for Pleasant Bluffs home-base hospital care and how to manage it. According to the case, it stated that Graff Salot, the director of Performance Improvement (PI), at Pleasant Bluffs Health System, is tasked with making these changes. (Erskine,2016) Therefore some potential solution might be to complete this task, he must first hired more people for administrative, and clinical. By doing this, will help to better manage the PI department and patients.
A plume of gray smoke floats across the early morning sky as Granite City comes to life. “You smell that? That’s the smell of money ,” said Brenda Whitaker, a town resident, former mill worker, and now restaurant proprietor. That is what her father use to say of the stench that Granite City residents would awake to every morning as the mill puffed out its great cloud of smoke from the coke plant.
My name is Jane Doe, and I am a newly graduated archeologist working as an intern at Harvard University. Considering my numerous archeological surveys, I have discovered the properly preserved artifacts that date back to the early 21st century. The excavation site once hosted an apartment complex in the whilom Morgantown. With these freshly discovered items, my team of archeologists and I seek to uncover some cultural aspects, including but not limited to the civilization’s quondam diet, gender composition, and socio-economic activities. We expect to expand our knowledge of the lifestyle of this town’s past civilization.
Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression Building Hoover Dam is the most captivating book ever composed on one of the present day design miracles of the world. Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully intertwine direct records of a fascinating gathering of onlookers. Engaging oral history of the 31ers who constructed Hoover Dam and the ladies who sustained them, wedded them, and shared their lives. Dunar and McBride have incorporated an entrancing oral history of the development of the Hoover Dam from 1931 to 1935. Taking into account the recollections of a wide range of people included in this phenomenal undertaking, including government authorities, columnists, engineers, and workers, this freely woven story gives
Southern California for many think about Los Angeles and their terrible air quality which in turn creates problems for many people and their body. A big problem that other parts of Southern California have is the Salton Sea and their air quality problems. “On October 28, 2015, the smog-control agency for Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, issued an odor advisory for the intense rotten-egg stench that was permeating the air of southern California’s Coachella Valley”(Iovenko 2015). This odor advisory is an actual problem because I personally can say that I smell it on occasion when back at home in the Coachella Valley. The issue that is happening around this odor is this burping up of hydrogen
Topic: Water Shortage Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about water shortage and how to cope with water scarcity Thesis Statement: Across the globe, reports reveal huge areas in crisis as reservoirs and aquifers dry up. I. INTRODUCTION A. Turning off the water while brushing their teeth, a family could save about 5 to 10 gallons of water per day. B. Freshwater shortage will cause the next great global crisis.