Design and construction: Bull.1. General features. Bull.2. Boulder Dam. Bull.5. Penstocks and outlet pipes. Bull.6. Imperial Dam and desilting works

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United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 1938 - Arch dams
 

Contents

General
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SECTION PAGE 36 General
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Plan of city
75
Government buildings
76
Contractors buildings
78
Water supply
79
Sewer system
81
CHAPTER VCONSTRUCTION PLANT 43 Introductory remarks 8883
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Aggregate classification plant
86
Lowlevel mixing plant
90
Highlevel mixing plant
94
Cement blending plant
97
Cement screening plant
98
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES 50 General
99
Roads
100
Temporary cableways
103
Derricks
105
MISCELLANEOUS FACILITIES 55 Compressor plant
107
Cooling plant
108
PENSTOCK FABRICATION PLANT 57 Introductory remarks
110
Plant equipment
112
CHAPTER VIRIVER DIVERSION WORKS 60 Introduction
115
SECTION PAGE 61 Excavation
116
Concrete lining
118
Grouting and drainage
125
Downstream cofferdam
128
RIVER CONTROL DURING CONSTRUCTION 68 Tentative program
129
Actual program
130
Diversion tunnel gates
131
Tunnel plugs
132
CHAPTER VIIBOULDER DAM DESIGN OF DAM 72 General description
137
Basis for design
139
Stress investigations
140
Model tests
142
Mass concrete investigations
143
FOUNDATION AND ABUTMENT PREPARATION 77 Excavation
145
Grouting operations
147
CONSTRUCTION OF DAM 79 Block system
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Concrete placing
152
Cooling the concrete
154
Contraction joint grouting
156
Galleries and shafts
157
Drainage
159
Electrical and mechanical installations
160
Research measurements
161
CHAPTER VIIIPENSTOCKS OUTLETS AND SPILLWAYS SECTION PAGE 87 General description
163
Design and construction
166
FIGURE PAGE 79 Sectional plans of intake towers
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Upper parts of intake towers
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Gate installations
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Intake tower control room
172
PENSTOCK AND OUTLET PIPES 90 Preliminary statements
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Fabrication
175
Rolling steel plate for use in pipe sections
176
Fabrication of bend section of 30foot pipe
177
Transportation and erection
178
Pipe section being transported on trailer
179
Pipe section on car at entrance to tunnel
180
Prestressing and testing
181
Installing pipe in inclined tunnel
182
CANYONWALL OUTLET WORKS 94 General
183
Design and construction
184
Operating floor in Nevada outlet structure
185
Design of Arizona spillway
194
Side channels
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Inclined spillway shafts
196
CHAPTER IXPOWER PLANT 105 General description
199
Boulder Dam power plant
200
Turbine gallery Nevada wing of power plant
201
Generators
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Transformers
207
Switching stations
208
Takeoff structure on power plant roof
209
Plan of power plant at generator room floor
210
SECTION PAGE 111 General
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Front elevation of power plant Nevada wing
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Section of power plant through 82500kva unit
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View of power plant during construction
214
Transverse section through connecting structure
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Connecting structure
216
Miscellaneous features
217
CHAPTER XARCHITECTURAL FEATURES 115 Introduction
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Interior of power plant control room
220
The dam
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View along crest of Boulder Dam
222
Sculptured panels and memorial tablets at elevator entrance
223
Gallery from elevator landing to powerhouse
224
Powerhouse
225
Nevada wing and central part of powerhouse
226
Design in floor of spectators gallery
227
Intake towers
228
Spillways
229
Safety island
230
Night lighting
232
Miscellaneous features
234
CHAPTER XILAKE MEAD 124 General
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Reservoir operation
237
Silt conditions
238
Lake temperatures
241
Research measurements
242
Recreational facilities
244
CHAPTER XIIIMPERIAL DAM AND DESILTING WORKS 130 Introduction
249
The dam site
251
General description
252
California abutment
253
AllAmerican Canal headworks
254
Sluiceway
258
Overflow weir
261
Gila Canal headworks
262
Gila Canal desilting basin
263
Arizona abutment and dike
264
SECTION PAGE 140 General discussion
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Description
266
Rotary scrapers
268
Removal of silt
269
CHAPTER XIIIALLAMERICAN CANAL SYSTEM 145 Introduction
271
Surveys and investigations
274
Description
275
Canal sections
278
Construction equipment and methods
282
STRUCTURES AT DRAINAGE COURSES 150 General discussion
285
Siphons
286
Wash overchutes
288
Drainage inlets
290
OTHER STRUCTURES 154 Pilot Knob check and wasteway
291
Alamo River crossing
292
New River crossing
294
Coachella Canal turnout
297

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