Dams and Control Works: A Description of Representative Storage and Diversion Dams and High-pressure Reservoir Outlet Works Constructed by the |
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Dams and Control Works: A Description of Representative Storage and ... United States. Bureau of Reclamation No preview available - 1938 |
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acre-feet aggregate All-American Canal arch Arrowrock Dam basin borrow pit Boulder Dam bronze BUREAU OF RECLAMATION buttress cableway canal cantilever cement centers channel cofferdam construction contraction joints cooling cost crest cubic yards cut-off wall deflections designed diameter discharge diversion tunnel downstream face drain drainage drilled dumped earth elevation embankment emergency gates Engineering excavation feet long foundation gallery gate chamber Grand Coulee Grand Coulee Dam gravel gravity grout grout holes hoist horizontal hydraulic Imperial Dam Installing and painting intake irrigation left abutment located lower material maximum miles mixer needle valves operating outlet Owyhee Owyhee Dam parapet penstock pipe placed pounds per square power plant pressure pump radial reservoir reservoir water riprap river rock fill roller sand second-feet shaft side slab slope sluice sluiceway spillway square inch steel storage stresses structure temperature tests thickness tion tower trashrack trial load upstream face vertical water surface