Dams and Control Works, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - Dams A description of representative storage and diversion dams and high-pressure reservoir outlet works constructed by the Bureau of Reclamtion. |
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... Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River , now in construction . Boulder Dam is extraordinary because it is the world's highest , rising 726.4 feet from the lowest point in its founda- tion to its crest . It has a total volume of concrete ...
... Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River , now in construction . Boulder Dam is extraordinary because it is the world's highest , rising 726.4 feet from the lowest point in its founda- tion to its crest . It has a total volume of concrete ...
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... GRAND COULEE DAM . Columbia Basin Project , Washington ROOSEVELT DAM . Salt River Project , Arizona . ARROWROCK DAM . Boise Project , Idaho OWYHEE DAM . Owyhee Project , Oregon - Idaho AMERICAN FALLS DAM . Minidoka Project , Idaho STONY ...
... GRAND COULEE DAM . Columbia Basin Project , Washington ROOSEVELT DAM . Salt River Project , Arizona . ARROWROCK DAM . Boise Project , Idaho OWYHEE DAM . Owyhee Project , Oregon - Idaho AMERICAN FALLS DAM . Minidoka Project , Idaho STONY ...
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... Grand Canyon . The width will vary from several hundred feet in the canyons to a maxi- mum of 8 miles . Initially it ... Grand Coulee Dam . upper mature surface of small relief . The most character- 1 BOULDER DAM Boulder Canyon Project ...
... Grand Canyon . The width will vary from several hundred feet in the canyons to a maxi- mum of 8 miles . Initially it ... Grand Coulee Dam . upper mature surface of small relief . The most character- 1 BOULDER DAM Boulder Canyon Project ...
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GENERAL ELECTRIC P & H GRAND COULEE DAM COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT , WASHINGTON BY C. Placing 500 - ton rotor in one of the 82,500 kilovolt - ampere generating units . Initial installation of four 82,500 - kilovolt - ampere generators. BOULDER ...
GENERAL ELECTRIC P & H GRAND COULEE DAM COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT , WASHINGTON BY C. Placing 500 - ton rotor in one of the 82,500 kilovolt - ampere generating units . Initial installation of four 82,500 - kilovolt - ampere generators. BOULDER ...
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Boulder Dam completed . Looking toward the Nevada spillway . Artists conception of the completed Grand Coulee Dam and Power. BOULDER DAM 27.
Boulder Dam completed . Looking toward the Nevada spillway . Artists conception of the completed Grand Coulee Dam and Power. BOULDER DAM 27.
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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 canyon walls cement centers channel cofferdam construction contraction joints cooling cost crest cubic yards cut-off wall cylinder 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 irrigation left abutment located lower material maximum miles mixer needle valves operation outlet Owyhee Dam penstock pipe placed pounds per square pressure pump radial reservoir reservoir water right abutment riprap river rock fill roller sand second-feet shaft side slope sluice sluiceway spillway square inch steel storage stresses structure temperature tests thickness tion trashrack trial load upstream face vertical water surface