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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... height to gigantic storage dams of unprece- dented proportions . Through the years since the Federal Government began construction of self - liquidating irrigation projects in the semiarid and arid section , the need for additional ...
... height to gigantic storage dams of unprece- dented proportions . Through the years since the Federal Government began construction of self - liquidating irrigation projects in the semiarid and arid section , the need for additional ...
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... height as measured from the lowest point of the foundation rock to the roadway crest is 726.4 feet , and the widths up and down the stream are 45 feet at the top and 660 feet at the base . A total of 3,250,000 cubic yards of concrete ...
... height as measured from the lowest point of the foundation rock to the roadway crest is 726.4 feet , and the widths up and down the stream are 45 feet at the top and 660 feet at the base . A total of 3,250,000 cubic yards of concrete ...
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... height of the structure , such an ideal was impossible . When the design of the dam was selected , detailed analyses of stress magnitude and distribution were made by the trial- load method . The analyses of the adopted design ...
... height of the structure , such an ideal was impossible . When the design of the dam was selected , detailed analyses of stress magnitude and distribution were made by the trial- load method . The analyses of the adopted design ...
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... height . The bottom consisted of two semicircular doors , hinged at the sides and equipped with safety latches to eliminate the possibility of accidental dumping . The loaded buckets weighed approximately 20 tons and were handled by ...
... height . The bottom consisted of two semicircular doors , hinged at the sides and equipped with safety latches to eliminate the possibility of accidental dumping . The loaded buckets weighed approximately 20 tons and were handled by ...
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... height for the Nevada section was 75 feet , and for the Arizona section , 85 feet . At the quarter points on the crest of these overflow sections , piers were provided to divide the crest into 100 - foot sections for the structural ...
... height for the Nevada section was 75 feet , and for the Arizona section , 85 feet . At the quarter points on the crest of these overflow sections , piers were provided to divide the crest into 100 - foot sections for the structural ...
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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