Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies . suit against the Contra CostaWater Company in 1900. He made a specialty of hydraulic engineering. Besides themore important work mentioned above, he did a great deal of workin all lines of civil engineering, including plans for sewerage sys-tems, irrigating projects, water works and land surveying, havinghis office in San Francisco. Twenty years ago he foresaw, from his intimate knowledge oftopographical conditions, that Point Richmond would become agreat railway terminus, and he acquired a large interest in the tidelands there at that time
Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies . suit against the Contra CostaWater Company in 1900. He made a specialty of hydraulic engineering. Besides themore important work mentioned above, he did a great deal of workin all lines of civil engineering, including plans for sewerage sys-tems, irrigating projects, water works and land surveying, havinghis office in San Francisco. Twenty years ago he foresaw, from his intimate knowledge oftopographical conditions, that Point Richmond would become agreat railway terminus, and he acquired a large interest in the tidelands there at that time. His life companion, his faithful wife, survives him, as do alsothree children, Charles F. Allardt, Frederick A. Allardt and LottaAllardt. And now that this useful life is ended our Society expressesits deepest sympathy with the family of our departed member, andresolves to hand this token of its sense of loss in the death ofGeorge F. Allardt to his widow,with the assurance that we, too, havelost a friend and counselor. Otto von Geldern, Editors reprinting articles from this journal are requested to credit not only theJournal, but also the Society before which such articles were read. Association OF Engineering Societies. Organized 1881. Vol. XXXI. NOVEMBER, 1903. No. 5. This Association is not responsible for the subject-matter contributed by any Society or forthe statements or opinions of members of the Societies. BAINFAIili AND RUN-OFF OF NEW. ENGLAND,ATLANTIC COAST AND SOUTHWESTERNCOLORADO STREAMS. t William 0. Webber, Member Boston Society of Civil Engineers. ? -. [Read before the Society, September 16, 1903.*] Your President has asked the writer to submit the tables inregard to the flowage of the New England and Eastern streamsrecently compiled in connection with an important case where theamount of water taken from a manufacturing concern was of vitalinterest as a measure in part of the damages sustained by suchtaking. As a result of the testimony submitted
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