Martin H. Blote papers

Speeches, maps, land ownership, Sacramento River, Shasta Reservoir

US Bureau of Reclamation Communications Radio communication materials

Evaporation notebook 1931-195-

Hydroelectric power

Irrigation sprinkler, water requirements, water users

Water requirements discussion, Sacramento, California : April 22, 23, 1948.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1948. 28 p.

Roster of water users.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1959. 104 p.

Personnel

Estimated costs of water under state plan of immediate initial development for upper San Joaquin Valley, 1932

Water economics costs, subsidies, amortization tables, financing and repayment

Isothermobaths

Operations Maintenance

Investigation of administration of the Bureau of Reclamation : hearing held before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, October 14, 1949. Washington, D.C.: Ward Paul, official reporters, 1949.

Operation studies of Shasta Lake and other Central Valley Project power plants

Speeches

Final report on research regarding the origin of the Bureau's interest in the CVP:memo 1946

Central Valley Project correspondence, memos, etc.

Maps

Central Valley : a pictorial review.San Francisco, Calif.: Electrical West, 1944, 7 p.

Central Valley issue.In Reclamation era (Washington, D.C.). Vol. 37:8 (August 1951)

Historical highlights of the Central Valley Project

Operating plan of the Central Valley Project, 1952

Hanson, A.J., and J.J. O'Brien. Integrated operational analysis for Shasta-Folson Reservoirs under present conditions of development for the Central Valley Project, 1952

Central Valley Project operations maintenance costs

Dominy, Floyd E. The Central Valley Project at work,1960

Start-up problems

Irrigation requirement data for Central Valley Project crops

Miscellaneous agriculture

Canals: maps, mileage, safety (drownings), capacity testing

Blote, Martin H. Central Valley Project canal locations.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1958.

Communications

Minority report of Central Valley Project power

Streamlined power operations

Power transmission

Dependable capacity

Power control operation

Statement by Floyd E. Dominy

Distribution systems

Water economics costs/rates, cost allocation, miscellaneous (newsclippings)

Reservoir operations

American River - general

Contra Costa Canal - general

Delta Cross Channel

Morrison, A.E. A memorandum report bearing on the capacity and timing of construction of the Delta Cross-Channel.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Central Valley Project, Delta District, 1947. 23 p.

Delta-Mendota Canal - general

Delta-Mendota Canal - water quality

Delta-Mendota Canal - operations maintenance

Delta-Mendota Canal - map - water users

Delta-Mendota Canal - salinity

Delta-Mendota Canal - turnout construction

Delta-Mendota Canal - emergency repair

Boron Delta Pumping Plant

Photographs of the Delta pumping plant, 1951. 6 photographs.

Eastside Division water requirements

Folsom Reservoir Dam costs, general

Folsom Dam dedication, May 5, 1956.7 p.

Recreation map (Folsom Lake)

Lake Natoma

Nimbus Dam

Friant Reservoir water storage/discharge/runoff

Friant Reservoir flow

Friant-Kern Canal

Friant-Kern Canal costs

allocations

Sacramento Valley water users

Hansen, A.J. Operational analysis, Sacramento River : Keswick to Verona, California.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1952.

Questions and answers about the proposed Tehama-Colusa Canal.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1962. 8 p.

Yolo-Zamora Unit

Sacramento River water use

Corning Canal Pumping Plant

Hill, L.K. Estimated water requirement of lands adjacent to the San Joaquin River from Friant to Gravelly Ford for present and ultimate conditions. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1952. 22 p.

San Luis Unit - general

Evaporation stations

Turnouts

Description manual for San Luis Pumping/Generating Plant.Sacramento, Calif.: Dept. of Water Resources, 1967.

Operation agreement

Miscellaneous maps drawings

Canal maps

Shasta Reservoir releases

Miscellaneous

Operations

Keswick Dam Powerplant

Keswick Dam - general

Keswick Dam - miscellaneous

Sly Park Unit (American River)

Tracy Pumping Plant

Trinity River Division - general

State acquisition of Cenral Valley Project

Mud Mountain Dam.Seattle: U.S. Army Engineers, Seattle District, 1939. 4 p.

Dams under California state supervision

Sacramento River flood control project

Reber Plan correspondence, reprints, newsclippings, maps, etc.

Reber Plan - hearings by Senators Sheridan Downey Robert S. Kerr, March 1, 1950

Miscellaneous speeches on California water development

Carr, James K. A speech ... before the California Municipal Utilities Association Convention, February 26, 1960.15 p.

Haley, John M. Programs of the Northern Branch, State Department of Water Resources, 1962. 4 p.

Head, Ivan P. Statement ... before the Regional Water Conference, Sacramento Valley Concil, California State Chamber of Commerce, Chico, February 2, 1962. 10 p.

McCullough, Charles A. California water program in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1962. 3 p.

Warne, William E. Cooperation in water development,1962. 13 p.

Werner, Carl A. Measuring flow in the Delta,1962. 13 p.

Stetson, Carl L. Statement on San Joaquin Valley drainage investigations,1962. 9 p.

Delta-Buena Vista operating plan

Department of Water Resources Division of Operations

The north coast role : California's water development.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation?, 1964.

Statewide Water Conference (1964:Eureka, Calif.)

Operations Maintenance manual

Equipment - Maintenance - Mechanical

Beebe, John C. Report on investigations for controlling the flow of mud and debris from the southeast slope of Mt. Shasta.San Francisco, Calif.: U.S. Forest Service, 1933. 25 p.

Blote, Martin H. Report on survey of methods for control of mud flow from Mud Creek in Siskiyou County, California.Sacramento, Calif.: Dept. of Public Works, 1933. 27 p.

Mud Creek

Blote, Martin H. Photographs of Mud Creek Project, Mt. Shasta,193-?. 61 photographs.

Maps, newsclippings

Pipe flow metering

Flow charts

Flow measurements

Gauges

Forecasts

Radio reporting precipitation gages.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Central Valley Project, 1955.

Radio reporting rain gauge tone pulse coding device, 1949-1959.

Hoisveen, Milo W. Report on preliminary engineering estimate of the Clikapudi Project, Redding, California.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Soil Conservation Service, Water Conservation Utilization, Region 7, 1945. 12 p.

Sacramento River Ship Canal

Sacramento River Ship Canal maps photographs

newsclippings

Blote, Martin H. South San Joaquin Irrigation District return water, segregated to Stanislaus and San Joaquin Rivers,1930. 6 p.

Lake Curry/Curry Dam

Multi-purposes of reservoirs/CVP facilities

Recreation

Miscellaneous - groundwater

Mosquito control

Wilcox, L. V. Salt-balance conditions of Reclamation District no. 1500 in Sutter Basin for the year ending December 31, 1946.Riverside, Calif.: Rubidoux Laboratory, 1947. 21 p.

Wilcox, L. V. Salt-balance conditions of Reclamation District no. 1500 in Sutter Basin for the year ending December 31, 1947.Riverside, Calif.: Rubidoux Laboratory, 1948. 15 p.

Miscellaneous agricultural costs

Speech notes and information (miscellaneous)

Sonic weed control

On the problems of preparing hydrological forecasts for unexplored rivers, USSR.New York: U.S. Joint Publications Research Services, 1959. 3 p.

A report on USSR electric power developments, 1958-1959.2nd ed. New York: Edison Electric Institute, 1960. 81 p.

Recent electric power developments in the U.S.S.R. : report of the United States delegation tour to Soviet Russia, August 28-September 9, 1962 .. Washington, D.C.: Reprinted by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1962., 63 p.

Lovell, Leonard A. Bratsk Dam and Hydroelectric Project, Siberia, U.S.S.R. In USCOLD newsletter. No. 10 (January 1963)

Bratsk Hydro-electric Station.Moscow: Ministry of Power and Electrification of the USSR, 1966. 23 p.

Caire, Daniel. The Russian railways and the 25,000 V 50 cycle single-phase CC type locomotives.1957.

Sacramento Municipal Utility District

Los Banos

Butte Lodge Outing Club

Blote, Martin H. Southern California Edison Company water management and runoff review,1969.

Water quality - miscellaneous

De-salting

Water treatment - miscellaneous

State Water Project (general) - miscellaneous speeches

Golze, Alfred R. The California State Water Project : its plan and present status,1962. 25 p.

Warne, William E. Water quality and the State Water Project,1962. 12 p.

Price, Reginald C. Agricultural water and power in the State Water Project,1963. 8 p.

Golze, Alfred R. Turnouts from the State Water Project,1966. 12 p.

Procedures and criteria relating to turnouts.Sacramento, Calif.: Dept. of Water Resources, Division of Operations, 1964-1967.

Procedures and criteria relating to turnouts: operations maintenance reports

Procedures and criteria relating to turnouts: maps

Procedures and criteria relating to turnouts: water quality

Procedures and criteria relating to turnouts: bridges, dams

California Aqueduct

California Aqueduct location maps, etc.

South Bay Aqueduct

Blote, Martin H. Photographs of the South Bay Aqueduct, California,196-?. 18 photographs.

South San Joaquin Division

Southern District (Tehachapi Mojave Divisions)

North San Joaquin Division

San Joaquin Drain

Tehachapi Crossing/Pumps

Correspondence, reports from Meetings of the Tehachapi Crossing Board

Correspondence (miscellaneous)

Water quality

Contra Costa County's water requirements : a report to the citizens from the Board of Supervisors.Martinez, Calif.: The Board, 1959. 11 p.

Delta pool

Werner, Carl A. The Delta Branch,1962. 6 p.

Golze, Alfred R. Resume of Delta studies and legislation,1962. 6 p.

Golze, Alfred R. Conclusions, recommendations and resume of current studies,1962. 4 p.

Price, Reginald C. Coordination in Delta studies,1962. 4 p.

Price, Reginald C. Delta water facilities,1962. 3 p.

Owen, Langdon W. Hydrology of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.Sacramento, Calif.: Dept. of Water Resources, 1962

Barriers and drainage

Stamm, Gilbert G. Resolving the unique problems of the Delta,1966. 13 p.

Statement for Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board

Delta agriculture (miscellaneous)

Waldie, Jerome R. The rape of northern waters,1969. 16 p.

Miscellaneous notes

Levees (newsclippings)

General (DWR News 5/70)

Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 1944 : model tests of salinity. Denver, Colo.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1944.

Sacramento River salinity

Delta Cross Channel salinity

San Francisco Bay salinity barrier investigation

Miscellaneous

San Joaquin River salinity at Antioch

The effect of the Delta salinity problem upon Solano County, 1959. 25 p.

Salinity conditions in 1959

Hebert, D.J. Experience in controlling salinity intrusion into a tidal estuary : protecting water quality of Central Valley Project diversions from Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in California, 1960. 30 p.

Salinity repulsion flows of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta : a compilation of the sources of the various salinity outflow requirements historically proposed / compiled by H.E. Wittig. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1964.

Cox, Gerald C., and Stephen A. Macola. Predicting salinity in an estuary. Dallas, Tex.: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1967 (Conference preprint ; 433). 20 p.

Blote, Martin H. Past and present salinity levels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and possible loss of water rights by adverse use,1969. 37 p.

Miscellaneous

Delta Hearings

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation exhibits

Dept. of Water Resources exhibits

Dept. of Fish and Game exhibits

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California exhibits

Fibreboard Corporation

US Steel Corporation

Delta Water Agency

Sierra Club

Delta Water Rights Decision 1379 (including newsclippings, etc.)

Cachuma Project

Klamath Project maps

Orland Project

Santa Monica Project

Solano Project

Ventura River Project

California - general/miscellaneous

Butte Basin, 1920-1965

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation - general/miscellaneous

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Water Rights Program

Program for acquisition preservation of water rights of the United States.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1949.

First supplement to the program for acquisition preservation of water rights of the United States.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1951.

Water rights application status.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1969.

Central Valley Project Act of 1933. Chapter 1042, statutes of 1933 (as amended to January 1, 1940).Sacramento, Calif.: State Print. Off., 1940. 20 p.

Central Valley Project summary statement

Blote, Martin H. Acreage limitations law: reports,1944-1954.

Miscellaneous

Taylor, Paul S. The excess land law: execution of a public policy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Law Journal, 1955.

Taylor, Paul S. Excess land law on the Kern? California Law Review, 1958.

Taylor, Paul S. The excess land law: pressure vs. principal.California Law Review, 1959.

Taylor, Paul S. Excess land law: Secretary's decision? : a study in administration of Federal-state relations. Los Angeles, Calif.: UCLA Law Review, 1962. 43 p.

Taylor, Paul S. Excess land law: calculated circumvention. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, 1965.

Etcheverry, Bernard A., et al. Appraisal of Miller Lux grass land water rights and damage to Miller Lux riparian rights, 1936. 102 p.

Sacramento River

Effect of operation of Central Valley Project on water rights of East Contra Costa Irrigation District. Brentwood, Calif.: The District, 1946. 33 p.

Water rights and use of water, 1914-1947. Brentwood, Calif.: East Contra Costa Irrigation District, 1948. 15 p.

Herminghaus lands

San Joaquin River

Court of Claims

East Side Canal Irrigation Company and Stevinson Water District v. the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. GPO, 1948-49. 2 v.

Tracy fish screen

Effect of pollution on fish

Salmon - American River and San Joaquin River

Warner, George H. The relationship between flow and available salmon spawning gravel on the American River below Nimbus Dam,1953. 5 p.

Pesonen, Everett A. The San Joaquin salmon story: a resume for use in connection with hearings before the State Water Rights Board. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1958. 17 p.

Fish Game - miscellaneous

Pesonen, Everett A. A joint report on water requirements for waterfowl in the San Joaquin grasslands, California. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Reclamation, 1949. 37 p.

Report on grasslands water problems,1951. 24 p.

Waterfowl - miscellaneous

Fisheries - miscellaneous

Gerstung, Eric R. A report to the California State Water Resources Control Board on the fish and wildlife resources of the American River to be affected by the Auburn Dam and reservoir and the Folsom South Canal and measures proposed to maintain these resources. Sacramento, Calif.: California Dept. of Fish and Game, 1971. 54 p.

Folsom Lake lease

Nimbus Dam lease

Porterville Irrigation District (P.L. 130)

Millerton Lake lease

Albonico vs. Madera, etc.

Corning Water District

P.L 643 (Central Valley Project)

Banta-Carbona Irrigation District

Feather Water District

San Luis Unit, Central Valley Project (P.L. 86-488)

DiGiorgio's Fruit Corporation

Miscellaneous blank and sample contracts

Operation of Nimbus Fish Hatchery

Collecting and reporting hydrographic data in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, California

Chowchilla Water District

Contra Costa County Water District

Edison Securities Co.

El Dorado Irrigation District

Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District

Sam Hamburg Farms

Isabella Reservoir

Madera Irrigation District

Miller Lux

Orange Cove (city)

Orange Cove Irrigation District

Orestimba Water District

Pacific Gas Electric

Pacific Gas Electric: McCloud-Pit Reservoirs

Ralston Associates

Sacramento Municipal Utility District

San Juan Suburban Water District

San Luis Water District

Saucelito Irrigation District

Southern San Joaquin Municipal Utility District

Stone Corral Irrigation District

General power contract

P.L. 984

P.L. 130

Comparison of contracts

Repayment

Sacramento River water diverters

Status of contracts

Loan engineer's report

Brown's Valley Irrigation District (CA)

Cachuma Project (CA)

Fort Shaw Irrigation District (Montana)

Jackson Valley Irrigation District (CA)

Klamath Irrigation District (OR)

Langell Valley Irrigation District (OR)

Solano Project (CA)

Solano Irrigation District (CA)

Tulelake Irrigation District (CA)

Hydrological and meteorological data for flood of February 26 to March 7, 1940 on Sacramento River and tributary flood channels.Sacramento, Calif.: War Dept., U.S. Engineer Office, 1940. 72 p.

Jones, Gerald H. Sacramento River flood control project flood flow and stage relationships : based on analyses of recorded stages and flow measurements obtained during the 9-year period, 1934-1943. Sacramento, Calif.: California Division of Water Resources, 1943.

Report of floods in the Sacramento River District during December 1945

Levee damage, Sacramento River, 1948

Typical conditions of the Sacramento River levees (June 15-16, 1948).19 photographs

Levee damages, 1948-1961

Survey of high flows, Sacramento River - Redding-Anderson area : January-March, 1953. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1960.

Flood operations - Central Valley Project, 1940-1946

Shasta Reservoir, 1945-1946

Shasta Lake flood control criteria.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1949. 36 p.

Flood control - general

Floods : operating rules, diagrams, etc. : snow surveys for flood control, 1942-1956.

Snow

Flood control regulations, Friant Dam and Reservoir (Millerton Lake), San Joaquin River, 1949

Storm and flood damage, Central Valley Project, December 1955. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, Division of Irrigation and Power, 1956.

Central Valley Project flood damage, 1955-1956

Bowlsbey Ranch, Reclamation District 2068, flooding problems, 1962 and other years

Blote, Martin H. Report : bank damage, February 1963, at A. Mucke property, American River,1963. 16 p.

Basic data for 183.1

Newsclippings

Frasse, Phil. Photographs for report on bank damage, February 1963 at A. Mucke property, American River,1963. 8 photographs.

Floodplain zoning

Photographs of California floodplains, 195-?, 8 photographs.

May, Roy L. Report to the directors of the Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District of water inflow to Tulare Lake basin in Kings County, California, for 1944-1945 season. Hanford, Calif.: The District, 1945. 22 p.

Miscellaneous addresses and newsclippings

Geysers Power Plant

Atomic energy - miscellaneous

Newsclippings

Keysor, J.W., and M.B. Andrew. Excavation for water conveyance with nuclear explosives,1964. 18 p.

Better coordination and safeguards to avoid blackouts

Federal Power Commission - miscellaneous

Automatic operation of power plants

Interties (Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest)

Blote, Martin H. Study of power output, Narrows Reservoir, Yuba River,1934. 22 p.

Methods used in making power study, 1939

Power study of Iron Canyon development

Pacific Gas Electric - miscellaneous

Dominy, Floyd E. Methods of investigating hydroelectric energy potential on multiple-purpose reclamation projects. Madrid: Conferencia Mundial de la Energia, 1960. 19 p.

Feather River trip, September 7-8, 1961

Testing electrical equipment