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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Page 46
... Bronze slide gates 6-46 % 10 : 0 Sluicing gates ( Power house Salt River 10 Emergency gate 004- -Embankment Tan POOSEVELT LOCATION MAP of dom Training walls -North spillway 2-54 ° Butterfly valves Abandoned 9 funnel Bulkhead Spillway ...
... Bronze slide gates 6-46 % 10 : 0 Sluicing gates ( Power house Salt River 10 Emergency gate 004- -Embankment Tan POOSEVELT LOCATION MAP of dom Training walls -North spillway 2-54 ° Butterfly valves Abandoned 9 funnel Bulkhead Spillway ...
Page 48
... bronze slide gate . Two 48 - inch - diameter steel pipes were connected to the bronze pipes and extended to the outlet of the tunnel . The power canal was often washed out in places during heavy rains . To eliminate the inter- ruptions ...
... bronze slide gate . Two 48 - inch - diameter steel pipes were connected to the bronze pipes and extended to the outlet of the tunnel . The power canal was often washed out in places during heavy rains . To eliminate the inter- ruptions ...
Page 103
... bronze pins , 5 inches in diameter and 17 inches long , spaced at 10 - inch centers and connected by four lines of 1- by 9 - inch high - carbon steel plate links with a combined cross - sectional area of 36 square inches . The chains ...
... bronze pins , 5 inches in diameter and 17 inches long , spaced at 10 - inch centers and connected by four lines of 1- by 9 - inch high - carbon steel plate links with a combined cross - sectional area of 36 square inches . The chains ...
Page 177
... bronze seal bars on the downstream face that rest upon bronze seat bars of a dif- ferent composition attached to the downstream sides of the slot walls . When the gate is closed the full water load on the leaf is carried to its seal ...
... bronze seal bars on the downstream face that rest upon bronze seat bars of a dif- ferent composition attached to the downstream sides of the slot walls . When the gate is closed the full water load on the leaf is carried to its seal ...
Page 178
... bronze seats had been damaged by blows from the loosened parts ; and the bronze roller trains , used behind the gate leaves , had been either broken or carried away . The concrete in the roof , floor , and walls had been badly eroded by ...
... bronze seats had been damaged by blows from the loosened parts ; and the bronze roller trains , used behind the gate leaves , had been either broken or carried away . The concrete in the roof , floor , and walls had been badly eroded by ...
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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