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Theses/Dissertations

1949

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Utah State University

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A Study Of The Street Plan Of Logan, Utah, Paul Walter Gottschalk May 1949

A Study Of The Street Plan Of Logan, Utah, Paul Walter Gottschalk

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

It is the purpose of this thesis to make a study of the street plan for the City of Logan, Utah, to attempt to analyze its desirable and undesirable features as they affect the community, and to prepare a solution to eliminate, insofar as possible, the undesirable features and preserving the desirable.


Design Of Shallow Wells For Drainage By Pumping, Lewiston Area, Utah, Gregory L. Pearson May 1949

Design Of Shallow Wells For Drainage By Pumping, Lewiston Area, Utah, Gregory L. Pearson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

After approximately 25 years of using open drains in the Lewiston Area, Utah, the water table has not changed appreciably from what it was in 1921 when Hart and Adams (4) conducted their drainage investigations. It is still only about three feet below the ground surface. This is not effective drainage, meeting neither of the two primary drainage requirements of an arid or semi-arid agricultural region, namely; preventing an accumulation of excessive water within the depth of soil required for optimum growth of plant root systems, and maintaining the water table at a depth below the ground surface greater than …