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Sanitary and Ship Canal opens
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/300018.html INFORMATION:
At this time the main channel of the Sanitary and Ship Canal was opened reversing the movemof the Chicago River. The canal is 28-miles, 24-feet deep, and 160-feet -wide. It is made to bring in water from Lake Michigan to clean sewage dumped into the river from houses, farms, stockyards, and etc. CITATION
Website Title: The Sanitary and Ship Canal
Article Title: The Sanitary and Ship Canal
Date Accessed: November 10, 2015 -
Activated sludge process
( http://www.waterworld.com/articles/wwi/print/volume-29/issue-3/technology-case-studies/activated-sludge-100-years-not-out.html ) In Birmingham, England, chemists experimented with biosolids in the sewage by bubbling air through wastewater and then letting the chemical settle. One of the solids had settled out, the water was then clean. *sites didn't have aproximate date CITATION:
Website Title: - WaterWorld
Article Title: Activated Sludge: 100 [years] not out
Date Accessed: November 11, 2015 -
Los Angeles–Owens River Aqueduct
( http://wsoweb.ladwp.com/Aqueduct/historyoflaa/ )
The Owens River was 8 feet tall and was made of concrete blocks, reeds and mud. This project was the nation's largest river restoration effort. It brought water 238 miles from the Owens Valley of the Sierra Nevada Mountains into the Los Angeles basin. It's about 10,000 acre feet of water saved from the runoff last year.
CITATION: Website Title: History of the LA Aqueduct
Article Title: History of the LA Aqueduct
Date Accessed: November 11, 2015 -
New Catskill Aqueduct is completed *no specific date given in resources*
Catskill Aqueduct
In December the Catskill Aqueduct was completed. It was 92-miles long and joined the Old Croton Aqueduct system that bought the mountain water from the west of the Hudson River to the distribution system of Manhattan. It delivered 500 million gallons of water. CITATIONS: Website Title: Water Supply and Distribution Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century
Article Title: Water Supply and Distribution Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements -
Formula for the chlorination of urban water *no specific date given
LinkAbel Wolman and chemist Linn H. Enslow of the Maryland Department of Health in Baltimore made a formula for the chlorination of urban water supplies. In 1908 Jersey City Water Works, New Jersey, was the first place to chlorinate, using sodium hypochlorite. To determine the correct amount of hypochlorite Wolman and Enslow analyzed the bacteria, acidity, and factors related to taste and the cleanliness. In 1930s chlorination and filtration of public water supplies eliminates water diseases. -
Hardy Cross method *no specific date given in resources*
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The Hardy cross method is a technique that gives engineers without access to computers to make the thousands of mathematical calculations a requirement to distribute loads and moments in building complex structures such as multi-bent highway bridges and multistory buildings.
CITATIONS:Website Title: Water Supply & Distribution Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements of thE 20th Century
Article Title: Water Supply & Distribution -
Hoover Dam
Link Early in the 20th century, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation made plans for a huge dam on the Arizona-Nevada border to calm the Colorado River and provide water and hydroelectric power for the developing Southwest. Hoover dam disseminated the one-wild Colorado River through the Southwest landscape. It's capable of irrigating 2 million acres.
CITATION: Website Title: History.com
Article Title: Hoover Dam
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Delaware Aqueduct System *exact date not given in resources*
Link The total storage capacity was 580 billion gallons. The construction of the aqueduct allowed water to flow from Rondout Reservoir in Sullivan County into New York City water system at Hillview Reservoir in Westchester County. 95% of the total water supply was delivered. -
CITATIONS FOR DELAWARE AQUEDUCT *random date*
Website Title: The official website of the City of New York
Article Title: Repairs begin on Delaware Aqueduct, part of new efforts to bring clean drinking water to New Yorkers
Electronically Published: November 04, 2013 -
Colorado–Big Thompson Project *no exact date given in resources*
Link This bought water through the Alva B. Adams Tunnel, under the Continental Divide, from reservoirs carrying 230,000 acre-feet of water to help irrigate more than 600,000 acres of farmland in northeastern CO and to provide water supplies and make electricity for Colorado’s Front Range. CITATION: Website Title: Bureau of Reclamation
Article Title: Bureau of Reclamation
Date Accessed: 11/15/15 -
First hard rock tunnel-boring machine built *no exact date given in resource*
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Mining engineer James S. Robbins builds the first hard rock tunnel-boring machine. He finds that if a sharp metal wheel is pressed on a rock surface with the right amount of pressure, the rock shatters. If the wheel, or wheels, constantly rolls on the rock and the pressure is constant, the machine goes deeper with each turn. CITATION:Website Title: Water Supply and Distribution
Article Title: Water Supply and Distribution Timeline -
Ductile cast-iron pipe becomes the industry standard *no exact date in resources*
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The ductile cast-iron pipe was made in 1948 and was used in water distribution systems. It became the industry standard for metal because it had great strength, durability, and reliability over cast iron. The pipe is used to transport water, sewage, and fuel, and is also used in fire-fighting systems.
CITATIONS:Website Title: Water Supply and Distribution Timeline
Article:Water Supply and Distribution Timeline Greatest Engineering -
Kuwait begins using seawater desalination technology
Link Kuwait made fresh water from seawater with technology called multistage flash (MSF) evaporation. The MSF process starts with heating saltwater, which occurs as a byproduct of producing steam for generating electricity. It ends with condensing potable water. Heat was supplied from the power plant external heat source. no exact date in resources -
Kuwait CITATIONS
Website Title: Sourcebook of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater Augmentation in West Asia
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Aswan High Dam
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The $1 billion dam ended the cycle floods and droughts in the Nile River region, gave a source of renewable energy, but had a environmental impact. The project required the relocation of thousands of people and floods some of Egypt’s monuments and temples.
CITATIONS: Website Title: History.com
Article Title: Aswan High Dam completed
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Bardenpho process *specific date not given*
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James Barnard makes a wastewater treatment process that removes nitrates & phosphates from water without using chemicals. AKA the Bardenpho process. It converts the nitrates into nitrogen gas, which is let out into the air, removing a high percentage of suspended solids Website Title: Brighthub Engineering
Article Title: The Bardenpho Process
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UV Waterworks *no specific date given*
Link Ashok Gadgil, invents an effective & cheap device for purifying water. UV Waterworks. a portable water purifier. It uses ultraviolet light to help us better see viruses and bacteria. A single unit can disinfect 4 gallons of water a minute, enough to provide safe drinking water for up to 1,500 people, at a cost of only one cent for every 60 gallons of water. It made water safe to use in rural and urban areas. -
UV Waterworks CITATIONS
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Website Title: : Technologies : From the Lab to the Marketplace—Ten Years Later
Article Title: UVWaterworks
Date Accessed: November 15, 2015
