Abstract :
After careful preliminary consideration, the Engineering Foundation has inaugurated an investigation of arch dams and has appointed the following advisory committee: F. E. Weymouth, Chief Engineer, U. S. Reclamation Service, Denver, Colorado; H. F. McClure, State Engineer, Sacramento, California, (alternate): Paul Bailey, Deputy Chief of Public Works, representing the State of California; M. M. O´Shaughnessy, City Engineer, San Francisco (alternate: R. P. McIntosh, designing engineer), representing San Francisco; H. Hobart Porter, member of Engineering Foundation, New York, (alternate: Wynn Meredith, of Sanderson & Porter, San Francisco); Silas H. Woodard, member of Engineering Foundation, New York; Prof. C. Derleth, Jr., University of California, Berkeley California; H. Hawgood, consulting engineer, Los Angeles; D. C. Henny, consulting engineer, Portland, Oregon; Fred A. Noetzli, Chief Engineer, Bissell & Sinnicks, San Francisco, Secretary. All members of the committee are members of American Society of Civil Engineers. A Chairman is to be chosen at a meeting to be held in December or January.
