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Title: Charles Gilman Hyde papers
Date (inclusive): 1904-1956
Date (bulk): 1930-1950
Collection Number: WRCA 046
Creator:
Hyde, Charles Gilman, 1874-1971
Extent:
9.58 linear feet
(23 boxes)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: The collection consists of reports and papers on various aspects of sewerage, sewage treatment, groundwater and surface water
pollution from municipal and industrial wastes, water quality, and sewage treatment systems for many California municipalities.
Languages: The collection is in English.
The collection is open for research.
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. Charles Gilman Hyde papers (WRCA 046). Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
Provenance unknown.
Processed by Water Resources Collections and Archives Staff, 1998.
Collection number updated February 2019. Legacy collection number was HYDE. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019
to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Charles Gilman Hyde was born on May 7, 1874 in Yantic, Town of Norwich, Connecticut, the son of Rodney and Kate Rhode (Dickey)
Hyde. He attended Norwich Academy and was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. degree in sanitary
engineering in 1896.
Charles Hyde married Margherita Isola on May 21, 1901 in Newton, Massachusetts, and had three daughters.
The first four years of Hyde's professional career were spent as an assistant engineer with the Massachusetts State Board
of Health. He then journeyed to Pennsylvania where he worked on major water supply projects for the cities of Philadelphia
and Harrisburg.
Hyde joined the faculty of the University of California in 1905 where he served continuously, except for service as a major
in the Sanitary Corps, U.S. Army (1918-19), until he became emeritus in 1944. Following his retirement he remained extremely
active as a consulting engineer and he engaged in major water projects the world over.
Professor Hyde was an extremely productive educator, scholar, consulting engineer, and statesman whose talents and counsel
were sought from all segments of society. He was an inspiring teacher whose interests in students and their personal and professional
welfare were truly distinguished. In addition to serving two years as dean of men (1926-28), his professional contributions
were so numerous, original, and distinguished he became widely known as the "Dean of Sanitary Engineering of the West." His
social and humanitarian interests were extensive, and he found time to serve for over twenty years on executive councils of
the Boy Scouts of America, Berkeley YMCA, the Red Cross, and he was a long time active member of the Bohemian Club. He was
also an active member of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley.
Professor Hyde's noteworthy accomplishments include the establishment of the first sanitary engineering educational program
in the West, and his active leadership played a major role in the formation of a pioneering Bureau of Sanitary Engineering
in the State Department of Public Health.
As an active consulting engineer, Hyde played a major role in shaping many of California's major water projects. He was responsible
for the original water supply source selection and the design of the first Sacramento water treatment plant, which was an
original and advanced contribution to technology. He served on many boards of consultants, which helped to set the pattern
of environmental engineering practice as well as make an important contribution to California's health and ecology. Some of
the notable projects include the comprehensive plans for the collection, treatment, and disposal of wastewater from the East
Bay cities (now EBMUD), San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, the counties of Santa Clara and Orange, the cities of Auckland,
New Zealand, and Vancouver, British Columbia.
A fitting summary of Hyde's life was made by President Robert Gordon Sproul upon the conferring of an honorary doctor of
laws degree in 1944 when he summed up as follows:
"The West is a fairer, sweeter land because of his concentrated work on its water."
Professor Hyde died on September 21, 1971 at the age of 97.
The collection consists of reports and papers on various aspects of sewerage, sewage treatment, groundwater and surface water
pollution from municipal and industrial wastes, water quality, and sewage treatment systems for many California municipalities.
Described in
Dictionary Catalog of the Water Resources Collections and Archives, University of California, Berkeley(G.K. Hall and Co., Boston, 1970).
The collection is arranged topically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Groundwater -- California -- Quality
Municipal engineering -- California
Refuse and refuse disposal -- California
Sewage -- Purification
Sewage disposal -- California
Sewage disposal plants -- California
Sewerage -- California
Water -- Pollution -- California
Water Quality -- California
Water quality management -- Law and legislation -- California
Water-supply, Municipal -- California
Waterworks -- California
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