📚 Dams

Water held to account: gravity and arch structures, the siltation argument, and the great river cases.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject dams in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Periodic dam safety inspection report	Dave Cummings	1994	14
	Dams within jurisdiction of the State of California	California. Dept. of Water Resources.	1958	11
	Embankment dams	United States. Bureau of Reclamation	1987	11
	Periodic dam safety inspection report	Douglas L. Johnson	1993	9
	The design and construction of dams	Wegmann, Edward	1899	7
	Design of small dams	United States. Bureau of Reclamation.	1960	7
	Uplift in gravity dams	Serge Leliavsky	1958	6
	Missouri Headwaters Basin	Hoskins, Western, Sonderegger	1980	6
	Dam Protections Against Overtopping and Accidental Leakage	Miguel Ángel Toledo	2015	6
	Hydraulic Engineering of Dams	Willi Hager	2020	6
	Hydroelectric handbook	William P. Creager	1927	5
	The Buffalo Creek disaster	Gerald M. Stern	1976	5
	The engineering of large dams	Henry H. Thomas	1976	5
	Architecture of dams	Anthony G. White	1981	5
	Periodic dam safety inspection report	Bruce Barker	1992	5
	In the belly of the river	Amita Baviskar	1995	5
	Algebra of Infinite Justice	Arundhati Roy	2001	5
	Fourth periodic dam safety inspection report	Douglas L. Johnson	2007	5
	Colossus	Michael A. Hiltzik	2010	5
	Dams in Japan	Japan Commission Japan Commission on Large Dams - JCOLD	2017	5
	Engineering Karstology of Dams and Reservoirs	Petar Milanović	2018	5
	Breakwaters and Closure Dams	Kees d'Angremond	2018	5
	Roller-Compacted Concrete Dams	Cigb ICOLD	2020	5
	Markham Ferry Project, Grand River, Okla	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control: Rivers and Harbors.	1950	4
	World register of dams	International Commission on Large Dams.	1964	4
	Alton locks and dam, a review of the evidence	Craig Roach	1976	4
	Architecture of dams	Anthony G. White	1981	4
	Preliminary stage-discharge relations for Tombigbee River at Aliceville lock and dam, near Pickensville, Alabama	G. H. Nelson	1983	4
	Silenced rivers	Patrick McCully	1996	4
	Dams (Building Amazing Structures)	Chris Oxlade	2000	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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