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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Page 6
... dumped rock . A V - shaped sheet rubber water stop , extending from the steel piling to the crest of the dam , was provided along the joints of the paving slab and the canyon walls . Three reinforced concrete percolation stops ...
... dumped rock . A V - shaped sheet rubber water stop , extending from the steel piling to the crest of the dam , was provided along the joints of the paving slab and the canyon walls . Three reinforced concrete percolation stops ...
Page 9
... dumping . The loaded buckets weighed approximately 20 tons and were handled by cableways . In placing concrete the buckets were lowered to rest on the concrete , the safety appliances released , and the doors opened . The concrete moved ...
... dumping . The loaded buckets weighed approximately 20 tons and were handled by cableways . In placing concrete the buckets were lowered to rest on the concrete , the safety appliances released , and the doors opened . The concrete moved ...
Page 15
... dumped the material into the canyon for removal . The inclines to the upper headings were excavated by driving an 8- by 8 - foot center heading and then enlarging the opening by two drillings . The muck was removed from the lower end of ...
... dumped the material into the canyon for removal . The inclines to the upper headings were excavated by driving an 8- by 8 - foot center heading and then enlarging the opening by two drillings . The muck was removed from the lower end of ...
Page 23
... dumped into a five compartment track hopper , each compartment of which provided storage for 10 cars of one of the five sizes of aggregate . Material from the track hopper was trans- ported to the tipple by a system of inclined belt ...
... dumped into a five compartment track hopper , each compartment of which provided storage for 10 cars of one of the five sizes of aggregate . Material from the track hopper was trans- ported to the tipple by a system of inclined belt ...
Page 24
... dumping mechanism was automatically unlocked for tilting to discharge into buckets for transportation to the point ... dumped from the track directly into the bins . The batching scheme was almost identical with that of the other plant ...
... dumping mechanism was automatically unlocked for tilting to discharge into buckets for transportation to the point ... dumped from the track directly into the bins . The batching scheme was almost identical with that of the other plant ...
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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