Engineer Leandro Badarán’s project to safeguard the fortresses of Alicante in 1794

After the construction of the San Carlos bastion in Alicante in the final decade of the seventeenth century, and the great trench which the English built around the district of San Francisco during their years of dominance in the War of Succession, the waters of the San Blas gully caused serious damage to these fortifications of the city and to the trade buildings of the port. In 1772, the diversion canal was built. It was designed to divert the riverbed of the gully and send the waters directly to the sea. The project had been initially designed by the Engineer General, Jorge Próspero de Verboom in 1721. This unique work of engineering had some defects, principally in the breakwater which prevented the waters from flowing down the former river course. On several occasions, the water returned to its original riverbed due to the weakness of the breakwater, the narrowness of the channel’s bed and its lack of regularisation, causing serious damage to the bastion, the Babel-facing façade, the traders’ warehouses and other buildings. This study describes the project that the military engineer Leandro Badarán carried out in 1794 in order to technically improve this canal and examines his report on the state of the fortifications. Similar works built in Spain are also explained. It also analyses the repeated disputes between the war department and the port throughout these years over finding a technical solution to the problem.

The plane system of coordinates for highway surveys; a review of a ground surveying method, prepared under the direction of W.M. Parker, engineer of traffic & planning, and C.E. Gray, assistant engineer of planning, by Jon S. Beazley, photogrammetric engineer.

Bibliography: leaves 46-48.

Annual report of the State Engineer ...

Latest issue consulted: 1848.

Municipal journal and engineer.

Title from cover.

Biennial report of the state engineer to the Governor of Utah.

1st covers Apr. 1897/Dec. 1898; v. 1-14 cover calendar bienniums; v. 15-16 report year irregular. 1928/30-1956/58 report year ends June 30th.

Subcompact vehicle energy absorbing column evaluation and improvement. Volume I: analysis of accident data, engineer's point of view. Interim report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

The adjustments of the engineer's transit and level,

Mode of access: Internet.

Studies of freight train engineer performance. Final report.

Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

Annual report of the chief engineer of the Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad made to the directors.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the engineer, upon the preliminary surveys for the Hartford and New-Haven Rail-Road.

"July 9th, 1835"--Page 30.

Oswego and Utica Rail Road Company : report of Joseph D. Allen, chief engineer, to the Board of directors, September, 1837.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of Board of Engineer Officers on testing hydraulic cements : with specifications for the several classes used by the Engineer Department /

Page facing t.p.: War department, Document no. 144. Office of the chief of engineers.

A Background report for the Formerly Utilized Manhattan Engineer District/Atomic Energy Commission Sites Program.

"DOE/EV-0097."