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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... Intake towers-- ARIZONA SPILLWAY Tunnel plug Permanent Highway-- cableway ... Adits DAM POWER PLANT 50 ' SPILLWAY TUNNEL Tunnel plug outlets 6-72 " Needle valves , Stoney gate , Canyon wall outlets , 6-84 " Needle valves Trail Adit ...
... Intake towers-- ARIZONA SPILLWAY Tunnel plug Permanent Highway-- cableway ... Adits DAM POWER PLANT 50 ' SPILLWAY TUNNEL Tunnel plug outlets 6-72 " Needle valves , Stoney gate , Canyon wall outlets , 6-84 " Needle valves Trail Adit ...
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Arizona spillway , Boulder Dam . Looking upstream . Construction nears completion . Intake towers in the background ,. FEFFE the water into the concrete on either side of the joint and produce a grout film of satisfactory density ...
Arizona spillway , Boulder Dam . Looking upstream . Construction nears completion . Intake towers in the background ,. FEFFE the water into the concrete on either side of the joint and produce a grout film of satisfactory density ...
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... INTAKE TOWERS For the release of water from the reservoir under normal conditions , four intake towers , two on either side of the canyon upstream from the dam , were provided to control the flow to the canyon wall outlet works , the ...
... INTAKE TOWERS For the release of water from the reservoir under normal conditions , four intake towers , two on either side of the canyon upstream from the dam , were provided to control the flow to the canyon wall outlet works , the ...
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Construction nears completion . Intake towers in the background , October 4 , 1934 . Arizona canyon wall outlet works with four of the six. BOULDER DAM 13.
Construction nears completion . Intake towers in the background , October 4 , 1934 . Arizona canyon wall outlet works with four of the six. BOULDER DAM 13.
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Arizona intake towers with trashrack steel in place , June 1 , 1935 . in the upper installations , supported by ... intake towers and the other the distance between the down- stream intake tower and the dam . The bridges between the ...
Arizona intake towers with trashrack steel in place , June 1 , 1935 . in the upper installations , supported by ... intake towers and the other the distance between the down- stream intake tower and the dam . The bridges between 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