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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... cost were 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 ...
... cost were 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 ...
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... cost of $ 653,551.03 . Taking off from the end of Government line , Six Companies , Inc. , general con- tractors for construction of the dam , built 26 miles of rail- road ; one branch extending to the Arizona gravel deposits at the ...
... cost of $ 653,551.03 . Taking off from the end of Government line , Six Companies , Inc. , general con- tractors for construction of the dam , built 26 miles of rail- road ; one branch extending to the Arizona gravel deposits at the ...
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... COSTS Payments were made to Six Companies , Inc. , the princi- pal labor contractor , under the schedule of the ... cost plus 15 percent . BIBLIOGRAPHY Boulder Dam Today . ( Two articles . ) Engineering News- Record , Feb. 6 , 1930 ...
... COSTS Payments were made to Six Companies , Inc. , the princi- pal labor contractor , under the schedule of the ... cost plus 15 percent . BIBLIOGRAPHY Boulder Dam Today . ( Two articles . ) Engineering News- Record , Feb. 6 , 1930 ...
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... cost of pumping 500 feet vertically above the reservoir to a com- paratively small acreage . The principal engineering objections to completing the low dam and later enlarging it to the high structure arose from the difficulties ...
... cost of pumping 500 feet vertically above the reservoir to a com- paratively small acreage . The principal engineering objections to completing the low dam and later enlarging it to the high structure arose from the difficulties ...
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... cost , as well as the difficulty of freighting lumber from Globe , a portable sawmill was purchased and located in a heavily timbered region of the Sierra Ancha Mountains , about 30 miles from the dam . Practically all lumber used on ...
... cost , as well as the difficulty of freighting lumber from Globe , a portable sawmill was purchased and located in a heavily timbered region of the Sierra Ancha Mountains , about 30 miles from the dam . Practically all lumber used on ...
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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