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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... completed , Grand Coulee Dam , while it will be only 553 feet in height , will be the most massive masonry structure in the world . It will contain about 10,250,000 cubic yards of concrete . When the Bureau completed the 328 - foot ...
... completed , Grand Coulee Dam , while it will be only 553 feet in height , will be the most massive masonry structure in the world . It will contain about 10,250,000 cubic yards of concrete . When the Bureau completed the 328 - foot ...
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... completion of the project . Water for Boulder City is obtained by pumping from the Colorado River . After presedimentation near the river , the water is pumped 63⁄4 miles through two lifts to a 100,000- gallon tank at Boulder City for ...
... completion of the project . Water for Boulder City is obtained by pumping from the Colorado River . After presedimentation near the river , the water is pumped 63⁄4 miles through two lifts to a 100,000- gallon tank at Boulder City for ...
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... completion of two 40 - foot pours , or three pours of the shorter section , the form was left in position for 12 ... completed side walls . Four - cubic - yard agitator bodies were hoisted off trucks and the concrete divided between ...
... completion of two 40 - foot pours , or three pours of the shorter section , the form was left in position for 12 ... completed side walls . Four - cubic - yard agitator bodies were hoisted off trucks and the concrete divided between ...
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... completed , to drain water from back of the lining . A total of 122,000 linear feet of grout holes were drilled in the diversion tunnels and more than 200,000 cubic feet of grout applied . Progress in driving and lining the tunnels made ...
... completed , to drain water from back of the lining . A total of 122,000 linear feet of grout holes were drilled in the diversion tunnels and more than 200,000 cubic feet of grout applied . Progress in driving and lining the tunnels made ...
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... completed was 98 feet from base to crest and 30 feet above the top of the diversion tunnels . A freeboard of 13 feet was provided for a discharge of 200,000 second - feet through the tunnels . The dam was 450 feet in length , 750 feet ...
... completed was 98 feet from base to crest and 30 feet above the top of the diversion tunnels . A freeboard of 13 feet was provided for a discharge of 200,000 second - feet through the tunnels . The dam was 450 feet in length , 750 feet ...
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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