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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... Canal System . Boulder Canyon Project , Arizona - California - Nevada ALCOVA DAM . Kendrick Project , Wyoming LAGUNA DAM . Yuma Project , Arizona - California COLORADO RIVER DAM . Grand Valley Project , Colorado EASTON DAM . Yakima ...
... Canal System . Boulder Canyon Project , Arizona - California - Nevada ALCOVA DAM . Kendrick Project , Wyoming LAGUNA DAM . Yuma Project , Arizona - California COLORADO RIVER DAM . Grand Valley Project , Colorado EASTON DAM . Yakima ...
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... canal from the Colorado River to the Imperial Valley . Work is now in progress on the con- struction of Imperial Diversion Dam , located about 15 miles northeast of Yuma , Ariz . , and on the All - American Canal , to extend from ...
... canal from the Colorado River to the Imperial Valley . Work is now in progress on the con- struction of Imperial Diversion Dam , located about 15 miles northeast of Yuma , Ariz . , and on the All - American Canal , to extend from ...
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... canals to the project lands . The power plant , with an installation of 18 main generating units having a total capacity of 1,890,000 kilo- watts , will produce 8,100,000,000 kilowatt - hours annually of firm continuous electrical ...
... canals to the project lands . The power plant , with an installation of 18 main generating units having a total capacity of 1,890,000 kilo- watts , will produce 8,100,000,000 kilowatt - hours annually of firm continuous electrical ...
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... canal which will supply Grand Coulee Reservoir . The pumps will be driven by twelve 62,500 - horsepower motors , through vertical shafts . Electric current for the 12 motors will be furnished by the six generators adjacent to the left ...
... canal which will supply Grand Coulee Reservoir . The pumps will be driven by twelve 62,500 - horsepower motors , through vertical shafts . Electric current for the 12 motors will be furnished by the six generators adjacent to the left ...
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... Canal- GRAND COULEE DAM Pipe Line-- Motor- Water El . 1290 Storage Lake 151 miles long Pump- DIAGRAM OF GRAND COULEE POWER Trash Rack-- Penstock Bedrock El . 1308 550- Power house Generator -Turbine Tailwater El 940 discharge ends to ...
... Canal- GRAND COULEE DAM Pipe Line-- Motor- Water El . 1290 Storage Lake 151 miles long Pump- DIAGRAM OF GRAND COULEE POWER Trash Rack-- Penstock Bedrock El . 1308 550- Power house Generator -Turbine Tailwater El 940 discharge ends to ...
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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