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McAFEE 27.06. 1881 San Francisco CA/USA 01.01. 1942 San Francisco CA/USA Lloyd Tevis McAfee began his civil engineering career in 1901, engaged successively from rodman to chief of party on surveys of Shasta County. In 1905 he became construction engineer for the Ocean Shore Railroad Co., Santa Cruz CA, and entered in 1909 the service of San Francisco CA, engaged on construction of cisterns after the 1906 earthquake, storm and sanitary sewers, the Fort Mason pumping station, and the high-pressure pipe system. In 1918 he was appointed engineer on O’Shaughnessy Dam for the Hetch Hetchy Water Supply, a project he was intimately identified for the rest of his career. In 1913 the Congress had approved a grant of lands in the High Sierra to the city of San Francisco, to permit the development of an adequate water supply. The city constructed then a great system by which water is impounded and stored in reservoirs in the mountains and then conducted 200 km through tunnels and pipelines. Its principal elements include railways, a construction power plant, Lake Eleanor storage dam, Hetch Hetchy reservoir, aqueduct system, and Moccasin Creek power plant. McAfee as construction engineer until 1930 had direct charge of several project divisions. He was then promoted to chief assistant city engineer under Michael M. O’Shaughnessy (1864-1934), with the general supervision of all Hetch Hetchy work, from the mountains to the sea. In 1932 McAfee became chief engineer of the Hetch Hetchy Water Supply, serving also as chief of the Bureau of Engineering of the newly created Public Utilities Commission. McAfee was responsible after O’Shaughnessy’s death for San Francisco Airport, and the Exposition building program on the Treasure Island. Until 1940, the work under his supervision excluded responsibility for operation of the electric power division of the Hetch Hetchy Program, but from then his authority was extended to its manager and chief engineer. He thus assumed both the construction and operation of this large water supply project. Anonymous (1930). Lloyd T. McAfee. The San Francisco Municipal Record 4(4/5): 95-97. P Anonymous (1944). Lloyd T. McAfee. Trans. ASCE 109: 1502-1504. Anonymous (2005). A history of the Municipal Water Department & Hetch Hetchy System. San Francisco Public Utilities Commission: San Francisco. McAfee, L.T. (1934). How the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct was planned and built. Engineering News-Record 113(Aug.02): 134-141. O’Shaughnessy, M.M. (1930). Hetch Hetchy Water Service Project. The San Francisco Municipal Record 4(4/5): 99-102. P

McALPINE W.H. 22.08. 1874 Lawrence MA/USA 01.11. 1956 Washington DC/USA William Horatio McAlpine obtained the BS degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Cambridge MA, in 1896, and was then continuously employed in the US Engineering Department on the improvement of rivers and flood control structures. He was principal engineer in charge of construction of locks and dams in Ohio River from Louisville KY to its mouth from 1911 to 1929. Until 1933 he then was head engineer, the Division of Engineering Office, St. Louis MO, connected with the design and the construction of locks and dams along the Upper Mississippi River. Until 1940 he was in charge of the Engineering Section, the Chief of Engineers, Washington DC, from when he was until 1946 assistant to the chief of engineers, US Army Corps of Engineers. McAlpine was member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, the Society of American Military Engineers SAME, and the Engineers and Architects Club of Louisville KY. McAlpine was in 1948 chief engineer at the Office of the Chief of Engineers. He was all through his professional career engaged in river regulation and control work for the US Army Corps of Engineers. In that period, he had served on many boards of consultants set up by the Corps, and in 1948 was member of the Board of Consultants for Panama Canal. Previously, he was engaged on the Ohio River, where the Corps of Engineers built major navigation improvements at the Falls in the 1920s. A lock, 180 m long by 33 m wide, was constructed along with a moveable wicket dam and a section of two beartrap gates at the lower end. Between 1885 and 1929, the Corps built 51 locks and dams along Ohio River, each having a wicket dam. Also during the 1920s, a hydroelectric station was built. The locks and dams on Ohio River served ably during World War II, providing safe movement of crucial petroleum products and military equipment. In the 1960s the McAlpine Locks and Dam on Ohio River was named to honour his skills in river engineering. McAlpine was elected Honorary ASCE Member in 1947. Anonymous (1948). William H. McAlpine. Engineering News-Record 140(Jan.22): 95. P Anonymous (1948). McAlpine, W.H. Who’s who in engineering 6: 1303. Lewis: New York. Johnson, L.R., Parrish, C.E. (1999). Kentucky River development: The commonwealth’s waterway. Louisville District Engineer, USACE, Louisville KY. McAlpine, W.H. (1934). Roller gates in navigation dams. The Military Engineer 26: 419-423. Parrish, C.E. (2010). McAlpine locks and dam project history. USACE: Louisville KY. https://www.ket.org/cgi-local/fw_comment.exe/db/ket/dmps/Programs?do=topic&topicid=LOUL110025&id=LOUL