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 40
... embankment at the toe and behind the cells was completed in advance of the 1935 flood season . AGGREGATE An extensive deposit of aggregate , known as Brett pit , was located on the high mesa east of the river , about 11⁄2 miles ...
... embankment at the toe and behind the cells was completed in advance of the 1935 flood season . AGGREGATE An extensive deposit of aggregate , known as Brett pit , was located on the high mesa east of the river , about 11⁄2 miles ...
Page 46
... Embankment 48 Steel pipes 10 ' Die penstock 2-30 " 30 " Bronze slide gates 6-46 % 10 : 0 Sluicing gates ( Power house Salt River 10 Emergency gate 004- -Embankment Tan POOSEVELT LOCATION MAP of dom Training walls -North spillway 2-54 ...
... Embankment 48 Steel pipes 10 ' Die penstock 2-30 " 30 " Bronze slide gates 6-46 % 10 : 0 Sluicing gates ( Power house Salt River 10 Emergency gate 004- -Embankment Tan POOSEVELT LOCATION MAP of dom Training walls -North spillway 2-54 ...
Page 71
... embankment was considered best suited to the right abut- ment due to the fault crossing the site near the west bank of the river . The spillway section , located across the river channel and 540 feet in length , is of concrete gravity ...
... embankment was considered best suited to the right abut- ment due to the fault crossing the site near the west bank of the river . The spillway section , located across the river channel and 540 feet in length , is of concrete gravity ...
Page 72
... embankment at one end and the spillway bridge elevation at the other . It is further in- creased by a concrete parapet wall 3 feet 8 inches high . A drainage gallery , 5 feet wide by 7 feet high , traverses the entire length of the ...
... embankment at one end and the spillway bridge elevation at the other . It is further in- creased by a concrete parapet wall 3 feet 8 inches high . A drainage gallery , 5 feet wide by 7 feet high , traverses the entire length of the ...
Page 73
... embankment and by an 18 - inch paving on the left em- bankment , The embankment sections , except a portion of the low left embankment , are provided with a reinforced concrete cut - off wall resting on rock or trenched one - third the ...
... embankment and by an 18 - inch paving on the left em- bankment , The embankment sections , except a portion of the low left embankment , are provided with a reinforced concrete cut - off wall resting on rock or trenched one - third the ...
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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