11-003_06
First Place
Water quality sampling from bridge
April 20, 1947
A safety conscious (note the flag on the crane) USGS hydrographer collects a water quality sample from a bridge over an unknown Nebraska river.
J.G. Connor (Robert Swanson)
11-014_04
Second Place
1912 at Many Glacier
1912
WA Lamb of the USGS at Swiftcurrent Creek at Many Glacier, Montana in 1912
unknown (D.A. Bischoff)
11-015_01
Third Place
Old cableway
August 21, 1911
Sacramento River nr Red Bluff, CA
unknown (Jon Ferguson)
11-008_02
Columbia Cableway
April 1956
12472800 Columbia River Cableway blw Priest Rapids Dam before dam was completed.
unkown (Kevin Wright)
11-008_03
Columbia Cableway
April 1956
One Span of cableway
unkown (Kevin Wright)
11-003_05
Sinking house
June 13, 1935
A house slumps into an unnamed Nebraska river.
(Note: Also listed in Disasters category)
F.H. Fowler (Robert Swanson)
11-003_07
Measuring flow on flooded Elkhorn River
June 27, 1947
USGS hydrographers make a high flow measurement on the Elkhorn River in Nebraska. This same style of equipment is still in use for measuring discharge on several Nebraska streams as hydroacoustics fail due to high sediment load movement.
(Note: Also listed in Disasters category)
D.D. Lewis (Robert Swanson)
11-008_04
New Cableway
date unkown
12472800 Columbia River blw Priest Rapids Dam Cableway installation of new cableway
unkown (Kevin Wright)
11-008_06
American River
January 2004
12488500 American River nr Nile, Wa
William Landrum (Kevin Wright)
11-008_07
American River old
April 1964
12488500 American River nr Nile
unkown (Kevin Wright)
11-013_04
Stimulus funds to remove abandoned gages.
May 28, 2009
09489070 North Fork of East Fork of Black River near Alpine, Arizona (period of record 1965 – 1978). Site was funded for demolition with Stimulus funding. Damage to weir control is evident in photo.
B. Duet
11-017_02
Dam release.
March 2005
Maximum release from outflow pipes at Alamo Dam AZ.
Mike Sanders
11-017_04
Winter Flood
January 28, 2005
09508500 Verde River nr. Tangle Creek. Winter Flood, 50,000 cfs from Cable Car
Mike Sanders