Memorial Tributes Volume 4 (1991) / Chapter Skim
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Bernard P. Bellport
Bernard P. Bellport
Pages 23-28
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When the child became eight, his mother, Louise, packed their belongings and with her son traveled westward to a new home in Merced, California. The lad attended grammar school in Merced ancl high school in Palo Alto.
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When the pipe lines were completed, he rustled a field engineering job with Montana Highway Department. He worked for the state until 1935 when a depleted treasury forced the department to cancel dozens of contracts and lay off hundreds of manual en c} technical employees, including Engineer BelIport.
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Approximately five thousand technical employees served under him. Outstanding examples in a long list of BelIport-administered projects include Morrow Point Dam in Colorado, the highest double-curvature thinarch dam in the United States; Third Power Project at Grand Coulee Dam, eventually to become the world's largest single power facility; Monticello concrete arch dam in California; San Luis earth dam in California; Glen Canyon and Flaming Gorge Dams on the Colorado River; and joint development of Intertie, the nation's first and the world's longest extrahigh-voltage direct current power line.
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He was past president of the Colorado Chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers. He authored more than seventy published articles or public presentations on technical subjects.
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Harold Aldrich. A few months after retirement, Barney and Mabe sold their Denver home, said farewell to their many friends there, and flew back to California to a retirement home they had purchased in the community of Rossmoor in Contra Costa County, east of San Francisco.
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