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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... base , oil - surfaced highway , 22 feet wide and 8.3 miles in length , including side roads . From the Government highway , Six Companies , Inc. , constructed a road which descended to the lower portals of the Nevada diversion tunnels ...
... base , oil - surfaced highway , 22 feet wide and 8.3 miles in length , including side roads . From the Government highway , Six Companies , Inc. , constructed a road which descended to the lower portals of the Nevada diversion tunnels ...
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... bases for a 10 - ton electrically operated gantry crane , to be used for concrete placing . Invert forms , consisting of steel side . plates carrying curved steel screeds , were then set in place and pouring started . Concrete was ...
... bases for a 10 - ton electrically operated gantry crane , to be used for concrete placing . Invert forms , consisting of steel side . plates carrying curved steel screeds , were then set in place and pouring started . Concrete was ...
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... base to crest and 30 feet above the top of the diversion tunnels . A freeboard of 13 feet was provided for a discharge of 200,000 second - feet through the tunnels . The dam was 450 feet in length , 750 feet thick at the base , and ...
... base to crest and 30 feet above the top of the diversion tunnels . A freeboard of 13 feet was provided for a discharge of 200,000 second - feet through the tunnels . The dam was 450 feet in length , 750 feet thick at the base , and ...
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... base . A total of 3,250,000 cubic yards of concrete was placed in the dam , and 4,400,000 cubic yards are contained in the dam , power plant , and appurtenant works . The technical design of the dam was based on three funda- mental ...
... base . A total of 3,250,000 cubic yards of concrete was placed in the dam , and 4,400,000 cubic yards are contained in the dam , power plant , and appurtenant works . The technical design of the dam was based on three funda- mental ...
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... base . However , the cantilever stresses at the downstream face of the dam and the maximum arch stresses in the horizontal elements were well below 30 tons per square foot . Resultants were at approximately the same location for both ...
... base . However , the cantilever stresses at the downstream face of the dam and the maximum arch stresses in the horizontal elements were well below 30 tons per square foot . Resultants were at approximately the same location for both ...
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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