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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... cableway ... Adits DAM POWER PLANT 50 ' SPILLWAY TUNNEL Tunnel plug outlets 6-72 " Needle valves , Stoney gate , Canyon wall outlets , 6-84 " Needle valves Trail Adit- COFFERDAM 15-115,000 HP.AND 2-55,000 HP.UNITS 13 Penstocks Persto ...
... cableway ... Adits DAM POWER PLANT 50 ' SPILLWAY TUNNEL Tunnel plug outlets 6-72 " Needle valves , Stoney gate , Canyon wall outlets , 6-84 " Needle valves Trail Adit- COFFERDAM 15-115,000 HP.AND 2-55,000 HP.UNITS 13 Penstocks Persto ...
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... cableways . In placing concrete the buckets were lowered to rest on the concrete , the safety appliances released , and the doors opened . The concrete moved into final position with little handling , some shoveling being required and ...
... cableways . In placing concrete the buckets were lowered to rest on the concrete , the safety appliances released , and the doors opened . The concrete moved into final position with little handling , some shoveling being required and ...
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... cableway to the pour behind the forms or transferred to 2 - cubic - yard buckets for more convenient handling . More than 127,000 cubic yards of concrete were placed in the spillways . Each spillway is provided with four structural ...
... cableway to the pour behind the forms or transferred to 2 - cubic - yard buckets for more convenient handling . More than 127,000 cubic yards of concrete were placed in the spillways . Each spillway is provided with four structural ...
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... cableway to the portal of each construction adit . The concrete was hauled into the tunnel by train or truck and dumped into the hopper of a conveyor- belt system which discharged through a series of chutes into the sides of the form ...
... cableway to the portal of each construction adit . The concrete was hauled into the tunnel by train or truck and dumped into the hopper of a conveyor- belt system which discharged through a series of chutes into the sides of the form ...
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... cableway was constructed by the Government . This cableway installation spans the canyon for a distance of 1,200 feet at the downstream end of the power house . A 90 - foot structural steel tower was provided on the Nevada side of the ...
... cableway was constructed by the Government . This cableway installation spans the canyon for a distance of 1,200 feet at the downstream end of the power house . A 90 - foot structural steel tower was provided on the Nevada side of the ...
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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