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	Watershed, St. Francis River, Hydrology Chapter, Text
		At the St. Francis gage station, 54 river miles below the dam, peak winter flows average 14,700 cfs, frequently exceeding the channel capacity of 6,300 cfs.
		Flow in the lower St. Francis River is primarily regulated by water released through Wappapello Dam.
		The lake is 210 acres and floods 1.8 miles of St. Francis River channel.
	www.conservation.state.mo.us /fish/watershed/stfranc/hydro/380hytxt.htm (1507 words)

	EAST TROY
		Sisters from St. Francis came to teach, but due to the small number of children and lack of transportation, the school was discontinued in 1896.
		Sisters from St. Francis came to teach, but due to the small number of children and lack of transportation the school was discontinued in 1896.
		After remaining at St. John's Cathedral for a few months, he was appointed to the pastorate at Beaver Dam.
	www.walworthcgs.com /StPetersChurch.html (2776 words)

	Missouri to have two fishing openers
		The only exception is that from Feb. 20 through April 14 walleye and sauger may be taken and possessed on the St. Francis River above Wappapello Dam only between 6:30 a.m.
		This whole effort on the walleye in the upper St. Francis was done in response to public concern.
		Conservation Department fisheries workers have been monitoring walleye numbers and size in the upper St. Francis and say the fish are reproducing and can sustain a carefully regulated harvest.
	www.outdoorcentral.com /mc/pr/03/HD/0221_MO.asp (839 words)

	MountainZone.com
		Turkey Creek descends form Missouri 72 to its junction with the St. Francis River upstream of the Silver Mine Dam.
		This quiet little tributary of the St. Francis is not a whitewater run; however, this creek has many things going for it...
		The St. Francis River offers the paddler some of the most challenging whitewater in the state of Missouri with rapids up...
	www.mountainzone.com /trails/activity.asp?AreaID={093D344A-5811-11D4-9BEB-00104BC9463C}&OrderBy=NearbyCity (352 words)

	KATV Channel 7 - Officials: St. Francis County Needs More Alligators
		Public works crews in St. Francis County say the area could use a few more alligators.
		The county has been having problems with beavers building dams on county waterways, and a larger alligator population could help.
		County Judge Carl Cisco says tearing out the dams does not help-- the beavers build new ones before the next sunrise.
	www.katv.com /news/stories/0305/212084.html (250 words)

	KATV Channel 7 - Officials: St. Francis County Needs More Alligators
		Public works crews in St. Francis County say the area could use a few more alligators.
		The county has been having problems with beavers building dams on county waterways, and a larger alligator population could help.
		County Judge Carl Cisco says tearing out the dams does not help-- the beavers build new ones before the next sunrise.
	www.katv.com /news/stories/0305/212084.html (250 words)

	Santa Clarita Valley History In Pictures - San Francisquito Canyon
		Remains of St. Francis Dam (the 'Tombstone') Toppled · The Signal, 4-18-1929 & 5-30-1929
		AP2332 - St. Francis Dam With Water in Reservoir, May 1926-March 1928.
		AP2333 - St. Francis Dam Failure, March 1928.
	www.scvhistory.com /scvhistory/stfrancis.htm (250 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page : S/ST/STF
		The St. Francis Dam was a concrete-arched gravity dam built as a large reservoir near the city of Los Angeles, California.
		St. Francis County was formed on 13 October 1827 and is named for the St. Francis River.
		St Francis Xavier's Church was the Catholic pro-Cathedral in Liverpool prior to the building of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
	wikien.info /browse.php?title=S/ST/STF (868 words)

	IEM Benchmark - Hazards
		Extensive photo archive of the St. Francis Dam along with contemporaneous reports of its collapse and detailed list of damage claimants.
		San Francisquito Canyon and the St. Francis Dam
		Narrative report and sequence of slides of the collapse of the Teton Dam in 1976.
	www.richmond.edu /~wgreen/dam.htm (113 words)

	William Mulholland and The St. Francis Dam
		The failure of the St. Francis Dam, and the resulting loss of over 500 lives in the path of a roaring wall of water, was a scandal that resulted in the almost complete destruction of the reputation of its builder, William Mulholland.
		The St. Francis Dam, built in 1926, was 180 feet high and 600 feet long; it was located near Saugus in the San Francisquito Canyon.
		A 1992 examination of the disaster concluded that, given the geological knowledge of the time, Mulholland was in fact innocent of criminal negligence--that the break was caused by the anchoring of the dam's eastern edge to an ancient landslide impossible to detect in the 1920s.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/scandals/st_francis_dam.html (646 words)

	Boulder Dam on Encyclopedia.com
		William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam disaster.(Privilege And Responsibility)
		A "kirora" dam of stones and palm leaves to entrap fish in pools and so increase the Bari Indians' catch.
		Best little lab by a dam site: Family Doctors of Boulder City near the Hoover Dam wins the 2003 Medical Laboratory of the Year Award.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-B1oulderD1.asp (646 words)

	Disasters
		Partially due to the controversy and threats that had developed from this project, the St. Francis dam was proposed as an additional water supply for the city of Los Angeles.
		Approximately 500 people lost their lives in the down stream towns along the Santa Francisquito Canyon and the Santa Clara Valley.
		Recent reevaluation suggests that the design did not take in proper account the uplift theory; the dam's base width was not as thick as previously assumed; the left abutment was on a ancient paleo mega-landslide and that the Sespe red beds would slake when submersed.
	www.s-engineering.net /disas.html (435 words)

	CLUI - Newsletter
		In each case, remnants of the South Fork Dam, the Teton Dam, and the St. Francis Dam remain on site, at the foot of their respective empty reservoir basins, haunting physical evidence of the limitations of artificial terrestrial engineering.
		Hundreds of dams have failed in America (including one near the CLUI Los Angeles Office - the Baldwin Hills Dam, which broke in 1963, killing five people), but three incidents stand out for their magnitude and the severity of the disastrous effects of their failure.
		Despite much local opposition, as there was considered to be insufficient reason to build the dam, the Bureau of Reclamation completed the Teton Dam, along the Teton River in southeastern Idaho, in 1975.
	www.clui.org /clui_4_1/lotl/lotlw00/dam.html (1147 words)

	Bernard, Sir Francis on Encyclopedia.com
		William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam disaster.(Privilege And Responsibility)
		Frank words from rock star Francis; Status Quo front man Francis Rossi has reasons to be cheerful, he tells David Powell.(Features)
		BERNARD, SIR FRANCIS [Bernard, Sir Francis], 1712-79, British colonial governor.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/e/e-b1ernardf1.asp (371 words)

	Bernard, Sir Francis on Encyclopedia.com
		William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam disaster.(Privilege And Responsibility)
		Frank words from rock star Francis; Status Quo front man Francis Rossi has reasons to be cheerful, he tells David Powell.(Features)
		Francis Hayman reading Paradise Lost in the 1740s.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-B1ernardF1.asp (412 words)

	St. Francis Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1924, construction began on the St. Francis Dam, which was given an anglicized version of the name of the creekbed on which it rested.
		Francis Dam was a concrete-arched gravity dam built as a large reservoir near the city of Los Angeles, California.
		The dam was built between 1924 and 1926 under the supervision of William Mulholland, an engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Francis_Dam (1514 words)

	Bernard, Sir Francis on Encyclopedia.com
		William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam disaster.(Privilege And Responsibility)
		Frank words from rock star Francis; Status Quo front man Francis Rossi has reasons to be cheerful, he tells David Powell.(Features)
		Francis Hayman reading Paradise Lost in the 1740s.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-B1ernardF1.asp (412 words)

	CSU, Long Beach -- Geography 458/558 -- Hazards and Risk Assessment
		St. Francis Dam Collapse of 1928 (404 as of 05/21/05)
	www.csulb.edu /~rodrigue/geog458558 (412 words)

	GALA - Gull Lake Dam Information
		It was put into service in 1912, the last of the Headwaters reservoir dams constructed.
		This team also designed Lock and Dam No. 1 built on the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Paul in 1917.
		The designers were Colonel Francis R. Shunk and George Freeman.
	www.gala.org /gull_dam_info.htm (392 words)

	Watershed, St. Francis River, Geology/Geomorphology Chapter, Text
		The St. Francis River flows swiftly out of the steep uplift of the St. Francois Mountains and meanders through the moderately-sloped Salem Plateau before spilling out onto the flat Mississippi Alluvial Plain after exiting Wappapello Dam.
		Local exceptions to the ratio of basin area to length of permanent stream are the mainstems of Big Creek and the Little St. Francis River where the watersheds only need about three to four square miles to maintain each mile of flowing water.
		The headwater area is dominated by the Ozark uplift (St. Francois Mountains) which has exposed outcrops of Precambrian igneous rock (granite, rhyolite, felsite) on as much as 50 percent of the surface on some slopes (MDNR 1986a).
	www.conservation.state.mo.us /fish/watershed/stfranc/geology/380getxt.htm (392 words)

	Major Events in Dam Safety
		Failure of St. Francis Dam in Los Angeles County, California focuses public scrutiny on safety of dams in the U.S. The Procter test revolutionized the design and construction of earthfills.
		Failure of the Kelly Barnes Lake Dam in Toccoa, Georgia.
		Failure of South Fork Dam in the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania due to overtopping.
	npdp.stanford.edu /chronology.html (381 words)

	Johns Hopkins Gazette November 17, 2003
		"Failure of the St. Francis Dam," a Civil Engineering seminar with Don Jackson; 100 Shaffer.
		Shoppers will find clothing, toys, books, art works, decorative items and more for everyone on their list, and with each purchase, they will be supporting the educational programs of the participating museums and organizations.
		Johns Hopkins Travel Fair, for faculty and staff who will have an opportunity to speak with representatives from primary travel vendors.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2003/17nov03/weekcal.html (2159 words)

	William Mulholland
		Fifteen years later, on March 12, 1928, Mulholland’s career took a tragic turn when the St. Francis Dam, one of several dams built to increase storage of Owens River water, collapsed, sending 12 billion gallons of water into the Santa Clara Valley, north of Los Angeles.
		His final years were lived in the shadow of the St. Francis Dam collapse.
		A natural leader, Mulholland, known affectionately as "The Chief," was entrusted with building a 233-mile aqueduct, the world’s longest at the time, to bring water from the Owens River north of Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, where developers awaited conversion of dry land into farms and housing tracts.
	www.socalhistory.org /Biographies/mulholland.htm (383 words)

	Cyndi's List - Disasters: Natural & Man-Made
		The failure of the St. Francis Dam, and the resulting loss of over 500 lives in the path of a roaring wall of water, was a scandal that resulted in the almost complete destruction of the reputation of its builder, William Mulholland.
		William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster ~ California
		History of the September 8, 1900 hurricane which took the lives of more than 6,000 people.
	www.cyndislist.com /disasters.htm (1379 words)

	Mulholland - g3rr2
		Mulholland’’s decline came be means of the St. Francis Dam collapse causing one of the greatest civil disasters in American history.
		Because Mulholland supervised the construction of the dam, filled the dam quickly, and ignored signs of it leaking dangerously, he was blamed for its collapse.
		The city would need water to allow it to grow and Mulholland built a dam at the Silver Lake Reservoir in 1906.
	www.hwr.arizona.edu /hwr203/reading/g3rr2.html (879 words)

	Event.html
		It was this neglect to the composition of the surrounding area that contributed to the collapse of the St. Francis Dam.
		It was concluded in the investigations against Mulholland that he should not have been in total control of the dam, and this is where the current law of having panels of experts approve of a municipal dam came to be.
		Mulholland seemed to be the best candidate for the position; he was the most knowledgeable of the cities water system and one of the most experienced.
	www.pitt.edu /~jtd6/event.html (2736 words)

	Santa Clarita Valley History In Pictures - LW2054
		As part of the project, Mulholland designed and oversaw construction of the St. Francis Dam, a 600-foot-long, 185-foot-high curved, concrete gravity dam capable of holding 38,000 acre-feet (12.5 billion gallons) of water high above Saugus in San Francisquito Canyon.
		Chief engineer for the city of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Mulholland was a key player in the construction of the Panama Canal, the Colorado Aqueduct, Hoover Dam and the Los Angeles Aqueduct — the latter taking water from the farmland of the Owens Valley and piping it to the growing metropolis.
		It can be fairly said that William Mulholland engineered the growth of Los Angeles, for he brought to it the one commodity this dusty, thirsty pueblo would need to support the influx of millions of new residents — water.
	www.scvhistory.com /scvhistory/lw2054.htm (529 words)

	Ten-Fifteen: Building Nothing Out of Something: William Mulholland’s Damnation and Redemption
		Mulholland became the most celebrated man in L.A. That all changed on March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam collapsed, releasing a 15 billion-gallon flood across a 70 mile-radius.
		Supposedly, the break in the foundation was caused by unknowingly anchoring of the dam's eastern edge to an ancient landslide.
		The man credited by many with making modern Los Angeles possible simply slipped out of public awareness (aside from having the biggest scandal in his life largely fictionalized in the 1974 film Chinatown).
	tenfifteen.typepad.com /weblog/2004/10/building_nothin.html (1135 words)

	Advantages of Nuclear Power by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
		(Fortunately, the dam failed during the daytime, which saved thousands of lives because workers were there to warn the populace downstream to evacuate, before phone lines went down.) The St. Francis Dam in Santa Paula, California collapsed (in 1928) and killed 450 people.
		The energy released when this dam ruptured was the equivalent of ten (20-kiloton) atom bombs, and it caused the greatest flood in North America since the last ice age.
		The dams in the Columbia River Basin have had a devastating impact on its ecosystem.
	www.lewrockwell.com /miller/miller13.html (3178 words)

	American Whitewater - river-advertisement
		The correlation between the two gauges can be influenced by such things as a rapidly rising river, rainfall variance in the St. Francis and tributary watersheds, wintertime freezing conditions, summertime vegetation growth, and even a beaver dam in the downstream outflow of the pool where the Roselle gauge is located.
		The highway D bridge over the St. Francis is neither a low-water bridge nor is there a gauge on it.
		The Roselle gauge is correlated with the paddler’s gauge on the low-water footbridge (old highway D bridge) at Silver Mines Recreation Area.
	paddlesource.com /rivers/id/2921 (2035 words)

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