Friant-Kern Canal: Constructed 1945-1951 |
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abutments aggregate bars berm bottom bucket BUREAU OF RECLAMATION Calif cement CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT Chamfer Compacted backfill concrete lining construction contractor conveyor Copper nails Countersink County highway designed DETAIL downstream drains earth section Elastic filler ELEVATION equalizing reservoir excavation Figure Fresno Friant Dam Friant-Kern Canal GATE AND HOIST grade gravel grooves hopper hydraulic inches inlet transition installed INTERIOR BUREAU irrigation Johns River jumbo Kaweah River Kern Kings River siphon Lined Section Little Dry Creek located operated outlet transition overchute Peter Kiewit Sons Pipe railing placed plan and sections Poso Creek Protection as directed radial gates railing as directed railing not shown RECLAMATION CENTRAL VALLEY Reinforcement steel riprap rock Rubber water stop sand SCALE OF FEET second-feet SECTION A-A siphon barrel siphon inlet slip-form Splice steel pipe structure subgrade surface Timber railing tion Tulare County Tule River Turnout underdrains UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT unless otherwise shown upstream wall
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Page 43 - Place all reinforcement so that the centers of bars in the outer layers mil be 2' from face of concrete unless otherwise shown. Lap all bars 3<t diameters at splices.
Page 2 - ... parties concerned, including Governor Warren of California. It has been agreed that the project should be a million acre-feet, that the main dam should be built by the Army engineers, that the irrigation and power facilities be built by the Bureau of Reclamation, and the whole, when finally built, operated by the Bureau as an integral part of the Central Valley project. All of these principles are contained in the revised bill before you. There is still some disagreement among local people in...
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Page 1 - ... law by Congress in 1937 and since built by the US Bureau of Reclamation. The Central Valley Project has evolved, since 1937, into the most extensive artificial water-transport system in the world. The project features include six major storage dams, four regulatory dams, two diversion dams, eight powerplants, one major and a number of lesser pumping plants, all connected by trunkline canals and a powertransmission system. Plant property and equipment cost, as of December 31, 1964. was $932,632,928....
Page 141 - ... feet thick at the base and 3 feet thick at the top was constructed along the canal face and in the same plane as the concrete lining.