Chapter IX: Appendix: II

Works of Reference.

Author. Title. Date.
Baker, Benj. The Actual Lateral Pressure of Earthwork 1881
Baker, Ira O. Treatise on Masonry Construction 1899
Bell, Thos. J. History of the Water Supply of the World 1882
Beloe, Chas. H. Beloe on Reservoirs 1872
Bowie, Aug. J., Jr. A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining 1898
Brant, Wm. J. Scientific Examination of Soils 1892
Brightmore, A. M. The Principles of Water-Works Engineering 1893
Buckley, Robt. B. Irrigation Works in India and Egypt 1893
Cain, Wm. Retaining Walls 1888
Chittenden, H. M. Report and Examination of Reservoir Sites
in Wyoming and Colorado 1898
Courtney, C. F. Masonry Dams 1897
Fanning, J. T. Water-Supply Engineering 1889
Flynn, P. J. Irrigation Canals and Other Irrigation
Works 1892
Frizell, Jos. P. Water Power 1891
Gordon, H. A. Mining and Mining Engineering 1894
Gould, E. S. The Elements of Water-Supply Engineering 1899
Hall, Wm. Ham. Irrigation in California 1888
Hazen, Allen The Filtration of Public Water Supplies 1895
Howe, M. A. Retaining Walls for Earth 1891
Hughes, Saml. Treatise on Water-Works 1856
Jackson, L. D. A. Statistics of Hydraulic Works 1885
Kirkwood, J. P. Filtration of River Waters 1869
Merriman, M. Treatise on Hydraulics, Masonry Dams
and Retaining Walls 1892
Newell, F. H. Irrigation in the United States 1902
Newman, John Earthwork Slips and Subsidences Upon
Public Works 1890
Potter, Thomas Concrete 1894
Schuyler, J. D. Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water Power
and Domestic Water Supply 1901
Slagg, Chas. Water Engineering 1888
Stearns, F. P. Metropolitan Water-Works Reports 1897
Stockbridge, H. E. Rocks and Soils 1888
Trautwine, J. C. Earthwork; and Engineer’s Pocket-Book 1890
Turner, J. H. T. The Principles of Water-Works Engineering 1893
Wilson, J. M. Manual of Irrigation Engineering 1893

Annual Reports.

Massachusetts State Board of Health.
Geological Survey of New Jersey.
Metropolitan Water-Works, Boston and vicinity.
U. S. Geological Survey.
Transactions American Society of Civil Engineers.
Vols. 3, 15, 24, 32, 34 and 35.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Vols. 59, 62, 65, 66, 71, 73, 74, 76, 80, 115 and 132.
Engineering News. Vols. 19 to 46.
Engineering Record.
Vols. 23 to 46.
Journal of the Association Engineering Societies.
Vol. 13.

INDEX.

Analyses, soil, Tabeaud Dam, 25
Analyses of soils, 14
Tabeaud Dam, 25
Borings, wash drill, Wachusett Dam, 48

Catchment area, 3
Clay for puddle, 15
Contractors’ outfit, Tabeaud Dam, 31
Core wall, impervious diaphragm as substitute for, 62
necessity for, 44
(See puddle.)

Dam,
Ashti, India, 35
Bog Brook, 41
Bohio, Panama Canal, 54
Croton Valley, slope of saturation in, 40
different types of earth, 33
Druid Lake, Baltimore, 52
high earth, statistical table of, 67
hydraulic-fill, 61
hydraulic-fill, San Leandro, 60
ideal profile of, 42
Isthmian Canal Commission, 54
Lake Frances hydraulic-fill, 61
New Croton, 39
graphical study of original earth portion of, 43
New England, typical section of, 40
new types of, 54
North Dike, Wachusett Reservoir, 48
rock-fill and earth combined, upper Pecos River, 58
safe height of, 39
San Leandro, 58
site location, 7
Tabeaud, 13, 17
Titicus, 41
Upper Pecos River rock-fill and earth, 58
with puddle core wall or face, 33
Yarrow, Liverpool water-works, 9, 33
Diaphragms impervious for earth dams, 62, 65
Dike, north of Wachusett Reservoir (see Dam; also reservoir)
Drainage and slips of earthwork, 45
of dam sites, 63
Drains, bed rock, Tabeaud Dam, 19

Earthwork slips and drainage, 45
Embankment, Ashti, India, 35
Embankments, Jerome Park Reservoir, 45, 46

Factor of safety for dams, 64
Filtration, experiments on nitration through soils
at Wachusett Reservoir, 50
formula, Hazen’s, 56
Foundations, 9, 63

Gravel for puddle, 15

Infiltration and percolation, 38
Isthmian Canal Commission, designs of dams for, 54

Outlet pipes and tunnels, 6

Percolation, 38, 57
Profile, ideal for dams, 42
Puddle, 14
core wall, Ashti Dam, 35
or face, 33
trench, 37
wall, Druid Lake Dam, 53
for Yarrow Dam, 34
vs. puddle face, 37

Reservoir basin, 37
outlets, 6
Wachusett, 48
Rollers for dams, 30, 65

Sands and gravels, flow of water through, 52
(Also see percolation.)
Slips and drainage of earthwork, 45
Soil analyses, Tabeaud Dam, 25
analysis, 14
Soils, experiments on filtration through at Wachusett Reservoir, 50
outline study of, 12
permanence of, 51
selection of, for dams, 64
studies, Wachusett Reservoir, 50
Spillway or wasteway, 8
Tabeaud Dam, 31
Subsidences, earthwork, 45

Test pits, 5, 8, 9
Tunnel, outlet, Tabeaud Dam, 30
Tunnels as outlets to reservoirs, 6

Wasteway or spillway, 8, 66
Tabeaud Dam, 31

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The writer had intended to present a table of physical properties of different materials, giving their specific gravity, weight, coefficient of friction, angle of repose, percentage of imbibition, percentage of voids, etc., but found it impossible to harmonize the various classifications of materials given by different authorities.

[2] The effective head at any point of an earth dam has been defined as the difference in the elevation of the high-water surface in the reservoir and that of the intersection of the down-stream slope with the natural or restored surface of the ground below the dam.

[3] This work is very fully described in the Annual Reports of the Metropolitan Water Board of Boston; and by Mr. F. P. Stearns, Chief Engineer of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, in the Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers for April, 1902. The latter description was reprinted, with the omission of some of the illustrations, in Engineering News for May 8, 1902.

[4] By effective size of sand grains is meant such size of grain that 10% by weight of the particles are smaller, and 90% larger than itself; or, to express it a little differently, the effective size is equal to a sphere the volume of which is greater than ¹/₁₀ that forming the weight and is less than ⁹/₁₀ that forming the weight.

[5] The term “uniformity coefficient” is used to designate the ratio of the size of the grain which has 60% of the sample finer than itself to the size which has 10% finer than itself. The method of determining the size of sand grains and their uniformity coefficients, is fully explained in Appendix 3 of Mr. Hazen’s book on “The Filtration of Public Water Supplies.”