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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... carried forward for the Boulder Canyon and alternative sites . The Weymouth report , submitted by the Chief Engineer of the Bureau of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior in 1924 , contains much of the data derived from these ...
... carried forward for the Boulder Canyon and alternative sites . The Weymouth report , submitted by the Chief Engineer of the Bureau of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior in 1924 , contains much of the data derived from these ...
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... carry the flow of the river during construction . These tunnels , circular in cross section , were excavated 56 feet in ... carried on in the tunnel enlarging operations by 100 - ton electric shovels , equipped with 31⁄2 - cubic - yard ...
... carry the flow of the river during construction . These tunnels , circular in cross section , were excavated 56 feet in ... carried on in the tunnel enlarging operations by 100 - ton electric shovels , equipped with 31⁄2 - cubic - yard ...
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... carried progressively toward the downstream ends of the tunnels . All concrete was mixed at the low level plant , located a short distance upstream from the tunnel inlets on the Nevada side of the river . Truck transporta- tion was used ...
... carried progressively toward the downstream ends of the tunnels . All concrete was mixed at the low level plant , located a short distance upstream from the tunnel inlets on the Nevada side of the river . Truck transporta- tion was used ...
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... carried to a maximum depth of 150 feet from the main grout gallery in the dam which closely follows the rock foundation . Before concrete was placed in the dam , holes were drilled 5 feet into the rock and pipes lead- ing to the gallery ...
... carried to a maximum depth of 150 feet from the main grout gallery in the dam which closely follows the rock foundation . Before concrete was placed in the dam , holes were drilled 5 feet into the rock and pipes lead- ing to the gallery ...
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... carried on in two stages : First , circulation of air - cooled water through the pipe system ; and , second , circulation of refrigerated water through the same system . An atmospheric type of cooling tower was erected on the crest of ...
... carried on in two stages : First , circulation of air - cooled water through the pipe system ; and , second , circulation of refrigerated water through the same system . An atmospheric type of cooling tower was erected on the crest of ...
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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