An Outstanding California Water Civil Engineer: Harvey O. Banks (1910-1996)

摘要

Harvey Orem Banks, Honorary Member ASCE and AWWA, Diplomate EE, received his BSCE (magna cum laude) from Syracuse University in 1930, an MS in hydraulic and sanitary engineering from Stanford in 1935, and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from University of California- Berkeley in 1964. Harvey worked for the City of Palo Alto and joined the Soil Conservation Service in 1935. Banks joined the California Division of Water Resources in 1938, but left in 1942-1945 to serve the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: 382 Combat Engineers on Guadacanal as a major. From 1945-1950 Harvey worked for Harold Conkling Consulting Engineers. In 1950, Banks re-joined the state of California, moving to principal hydraulic engineer, and then state engineer in 1955-1956. With the new California Department of Water Resources, Harvey Banks was the first director, working on the California State Water Project to transport stored water from northern CA to central and southern California. In 1961, Banks joined Leeds, Hill, Jewett as President and Board Chairman until 1969. In 1977, Harvey merged his consulting firm with Camp Dresser McKee, serving as president of the Water Resources Division. Banks later worked on a long-range Texas water plan and on a High Plains Aquifer Study. Harvey served with the World Bank, U.N., U.S.A.I.D., and published for ASCE, AWWA, WPCF, ICE in U.K., and the California Law Review. In 1973, Banks was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and received the ASCE Julian Hinds and Royce J. Tipton Awards.