O'Sullivan Dam: Constructed 1947-1949 |
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Drainage area: 4, 000 square miles Maximum flood: 3, 000 cubic feet per second
(1943) Reservoir: Area: 32, 000 acres Total storage: 675,000 acre-feet at
elevation 1052.0 (spillway crest) Irrigation storage: 569, 000 acre-feet above
Potholes ...
Drainage area: 4, 000 square miles Maximum flood: 3, 000 cubic feet per second
(1943) Reservoir: Area: 32, 000 acres Total storage: 675,000 acre-feet at
elevation 1052.0 (spillway crest) Irrigation storage: 569, 000 acre-feet above
Potholes ...
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Eighteen penstocks, each 18 feet in diameter, supply the main turbines, and
three penstocks 6 feet in diameter are connected to the station-service units. The
total capacity of the outlet works is 353, 000 cubic feet per second, and the
penstock ...
Eighteen penstocks, each 18 feet in diameter, supply the main turbines, and
three penstocks 6 feet in diameter are connected to the station-service units. The
total capacity of the outlet works is 353, 000 cubic feet per second, and the
penstock ...
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canal of 9, 700 cubic feet per second capacity extends 6. 6 miles westward from
the Long Lake reservoir to the bifurcation structure constituting the beginning of
the East Low canal and the West canal. It will be noted that a radical departure ...
canal of 9, 700 cubic feet per second capacity extends 6. 6 miles westward from
the Long Lake reservoir to the bifurcation structure constituting the beginning of
the East Low canal and the West canal. It will be noted that a radical departure ...
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Contents
CHAPTER IINTRODUCTION Section Page 1 General | 1 |
Distribution system | 2 |
O1 Sullivan Dam and Potholes reservoir | 5 |
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Common terms and phrases
abutment acre-feet acres approximately axis station backfill bars basalt basalt flows bid price blasting borrow area borrow pit bottom Bureau of Reclamation closure section Columbia Basin project Columbia River compacted concrete consisting construction cost Crab Creek crest elevation cubic feet cutoff trench dam embankment depth designed directed the contractor discharge Drilling grout holes Drumheller channels elevation 960 embankment settlement excavation feet downstream feet long feet per second Figure Frenchman Hills gate chamber Grand Coulee Dam grout cap hand-auger holes high-pressure gate holes were drilled inches irrigation Lake layers Lind Coulee flexure located maximum water surface miles O'Sullivan Dam operation Order for Changes outlet pipe overburden piezometer placement Potholes Dam Potholes reservoir pumping Quincy Basin reinforcement riprap roadway sand and gravel settlement installations shaft silt slope sluiced spillway steel stilling basin suitable rock trashrack structure trucks tubing tunnel lining U. S. Bureau valve house zone 1 material
Bibliographic information
| Title | O'Sullivan Dam: Constructed 1947-1949 Technical record of design and construction |
| Author | United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
| Publisher | U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 61 pages |
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