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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... bottom of Black Canyon , and another to the Nevada side of the gorge at the dam site . The State of Nevada constructed a new highway be- tween Las Vegas and Boulder City , a distance of 23 miles . This highway was extended by the ...
... bottom of Black Canyon , and another to the Nevada side of the gorge at the dam site . The State of Nevada constructed a new highway be- tween Las Vegas and Boulder City , a distance of 23 miles . This highway was extended by the ...
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... bottom of the structure . One model of the complete dam and two slab models were built of a plaster and celite mixture . The other model of the entire dam was constructed of a rubber - litharge compound . Results obtained from the model ...
... bottom of the structure . One model of the complete dam and two slab models were built of a plaster and celite mixture . The other model of the entire dam was constructed of a rubber - litharge compound . Results obtained from the model ...
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... bottom - discharge buckets were used in placing , to prevent segregation with a minimum variation in water content . The buckets were all - welded construction of 4 - inch steel plate , 6 feet in diameter and 8 feet in height . The bottom ...
... bottom - discharge buckets were used in placing , to prevent segregation with a minimum variation in water content . The buckets were all - welded construction of 4 - inch steel plate , 6 feet in diameter and 8 feet in height . The bottom ...
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... bottom width of 40 feet and the floor slopes on a 12 percent grade from a depth of 75 feet at the upper end to a depth of 128 feet at a point opposite the lower end of the crest . From the downstream end of the last 100 - foot gate sec ...
... bottom width of 40 feet and the floor slopes on a 12 percent grade from a depth of 75 feet at the upper end to a depth of 128 feet at a point opposite the lower end of the crest . From the downstream end of the last 100 - foot gate sec ...
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... bottom of the bin . Material from the batchers was discharged by pushing a button at the control stand on the operating deck , and was carried by a conveyor belt running beneath the batchers to the mixer charging hopper at a 45 - foot ...
... bottom of the bin . Material from the batchers was discharged by pushing a button at the control stand on the operating deck , and was carried by a conveyor belt running beneath the batchers to the mixer charging hopper at a 45 - foot ...
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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