Causeway of California's Central Valley Water Project   Save
Joe Munroe Archive
Description: The need for irrigation and fresh water in the southern part of California led to the Central Valley Project of the 1930s, which called for a series of damns and causeways to store and direct water to the San Joaquin Valley. This 1966 aerial photograph by Joe Munroe shows one of the causeways and its surrounding farmland. Unfortunately, the dams have led to unforeseen environmental issues for migrating fish and local ecosystems in the north, which has caused outcry throughout the environmental community. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B32_F2268_JPG103
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farms; Irrigation; Central Valley Project (Calif.);
Places: California