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GRUNSKY 04.04. 1855 San Joaquin CA/USA 09.06. 1934 Oakland CA/USA Carl Ewald Grunsky obtained his higher education at Stuttgart Polytechnikum, Germany, graduating as a civil engineer in 1877. After having returned to the USA he worked as topographer for river surveys in the State Engineering Department of California, becoming assistant and chief assistant engineer to the State Engineer. From 1887 to 1899 he was a private consultant dealing mainly with irrigation, sewage and drainage works around Sacramento and San Francisco. He also contributed works to river rectifications and drainage problems as Member of the Examining Commission, Rivers and Harbours, California. He was from 1892 in parallel also a member of the San Francisco Sewerage Commission, and from 1900 to 1904 city engineer of San Francisco. During the next year Grunsky was a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission involved in Panama Canal. Since then he was a consultant for the US Reclamation Service, Washington DC. He was a member ASCE and its president in 1924, of the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, and of the California Academy of Sciences, presiding it from 1912. Grunsky authored various technical papers, including a work in the Transactions ASCE for which he was awarded the 1910 Norman Medal. He was also interested in all questions relating to water resources, including hydrology and methods of discharge measurement in rivers, specific rivers such as the Colorado River, or water supply. He further devised formulae for estimating rainfall intensities, which were applied to the design of sewer systems. Anonymous (1921). Grunsky, Carl Ewald. Who’s who in America 11: 1173. Marquis: Chicago. Anonymous (1924). C.E. Grunsky. Engineering News-Record 92(3): 128. P Anonymous (1934). Carl Ewald Grunsky. Civil Engineering 4(7): 373. P Anonymous (1935). Carl Ewald Grunsky. Trans. ASCE 100: 1591-1595. Grunsky, C.E. (1896). Method of approximate gauging of rivers. Engineering Record 33(14): 239. Grunsky, C.E. (1907). The problem of the Lower Colorado River. Private printing. Grunsky, C.E. (1917). Valuation of depreciation and the rate-base. Wiley: New York. Grunsky, C.E. (1931). Simplified formulas for rainfall intensity. Monthly Weather Review AMS 59(2): 83. Mead, E., Smythe, W.E., Manson, M., Wilson, J.M., Marx, C.D., Soule, F., Grunsky, C.E., Boggs, E.M., Schuyler, J.D. (1901). Report of irrigation investigations in California. Bulletin 100. US Dept. Agriculture: Washington DC.