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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... cubic yards and has created Lake Mead , a reservoir of 30,500,000 acre - feet capacity , by far the biggest so far . When completed , Grand Coulee Dam , while it will be only 553 feet in height , will be the most massive masonry ...
... cubic yards and has created Lake Mead , a reservoir of 30,500,000 acre - feet capacity , by far the biggest so far . When completed , Grand Coulee Dam , while it will be only 553 feet in height , will be the most massive masonry ...
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... cubic yards of rock . The rock proved to be of excellent quality and no support was re- quired for any portion of ... cubic - yard buckets . The muck was loaded on 10 - ton trucks and hauled up roads along the canyon walls to the ...
... cubic yards of rock . The rock proved to be of excellent quality and no support was re- quired for any portion of ... cubic - yard buckets . The muck was loaded on 10 - ton trucks and hauled up roads along the canyon walls to the ...
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... cubic yards of earth and 157,000 cubic yards of rock . The upstream face of 3 : 1 slope was protected by 6 - inch concrete paving , laid on a 3 - foot thickness of rock blanket ; and the downstream slope of 4 : 1 was covered by a heavy ...
... cubic yards of earth and 157,000 cubic yards of rock . The upstream face of 3 : 1 slope was protected by 6 - inch concrete paving , laid on a 3 - foot thickness of rock blanket ; and the downstream slope of 4 : 1 was covered by a heavy ...
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... cubic feet of grout applied . " C " -line grouting , to provide a supplemental cut - off under the heel of the dam ... yards of concrete was placed in the dam , and 4,400,000 cubic yards are contained in the dam , power plant , and ...
... cubic feet of grout applied . " C " -line grouting , to provide a supplemental cut - off under the heel of the dam ... yards of concrete was placed in the dam , and 4,400,000 cubic yards are contained in the dam , power plant , and ...
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... cubic yards of rock were removed for the construction of the spillways . The face of the weir that forms part of one ... cubic - yard agitators on trucks , and either moved directly by cableway to the pour behind the forms or transferred ...
... cubic yards of rock were removed for the construction of the spillways . The face of the weir that forms part of one ... cubic - yard agitators on trucks , and either moved directly by cableway to the pour behind the forms or transferred ...
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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