Series 1. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation-General 1931-1959
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.
Series 2. Central Valley Project-General 1939-1969
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
Series 3. California Department of Water Resources 1962-1966
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
Series 4. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta 1962-1969
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.)
Series 5. Miscellaneous U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Projects undated
Cachuma Project
Klamath Project maps
Orland Project
Santa Monica Project
Solano Project
Ventura River Project
Series 6. Water Rights 1920-1969
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.
Series 7. Fish and Wildlife 1949-1971
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.
Series 8. Contracts, Laws, etc.-Specific undated
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
Series 9. Contracts, Laws, etc.-USBR General undated
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)
Series 10. Floods 1940-1963
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.
Series 11. Hydroelectric Power 1939-1964
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