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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... extending to the Arizona gravel deposits at the bottom of Black Canyon , and another to the Nevada side of the gorge ... extends about one - fourth of a mile to the disposal plant of the separate sludge digestion type , with gas ...
... extending to the Arizona gravel deposits at the bottom of Black Canyon , and another to the Nevada side of the gorge ... extends about one - fourth of a mile to the disposal plant of the separate sludge digestion type , with gas ...
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... 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 , projecting at right angles from each canyon wall , were ...
... 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 , projecting at right angles from each canyon wall , were ...
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... extending down another 5 feet against the last pour . The fact that the corners of the columnar blocks of concrete in the dam extended vertically from the lowest point of the block to the top permitted forms to be designed and built for ...
... extending down another 5 feet against the last pour . The fact that the corners of the columnar blocks of concrete in the dam extended vertically from the lowest point of the block to the top permitted forms to be designed and built for ...
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... extending through the dam to the upstream face , was provided for the cooling system header pipes . The 6 - inch , cork - insu- lated header pipes extended through the slot to the up- stream face of the dam . They connected directly ...
... extending through the dam to the upstream face , was provided for the cooling system header pipes . The 6 - inch , cork - insu- lated header pipes extended through the slot to the up- stream face of the dam . They connected directly ...
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... extending under the center of the channel floor , and a 12 - inch layer of porous concrete under the bottom of the entire channel . The sides and bottom of the spillway channel and transi- tion were lined with an average thickness of 24 ...
... extending under the center of the channel floor , and a 12 - inch layer of porous concrete under the bottom of the entire channel . The sides and bottom of the spillway channel and transi- tion were lined with an average thickness of 24 ...
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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