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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... irrigation projects in the semiarid and arid section , the need for additional water has resulted in the construction of progressively larger and more complicated dams , until recently control of the largest rivers in the West has been ...
... irrigation projects in the semiarid and arid section , the need for additional water has resulted in the construction of progressively larger and more complicated dams , until recently control of the largest rivers in the West has been ...
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... irrigated . RESERVOIR The Colorado River , including the Gila River , drains an area of about 245,000 square miles ... irrigation and storage development upstream from the dam will decrease the inflow and permit a reduction in the ...
... irrigated . RESERVOIR The Colorado River , including the Gila River , drains an area of about 245,000 square miles ... irrigation and storage development upstream from the dam will decrease the inflow and permit a reduction in the ...
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... irrigation with power development by constructing a high dam across the Colum- bia River , creating a reservoir from which the irrigation supply will be pumped into the Grand Coulee regulating reservoir and conveyed by gravity canals to ...
... irrigation with power development by constructing a high dam across the Colum- bia River , creating a reservoir from which the irrigation supply will be pumped into the Grand Coulee regulating reservoir and conveyed by gravity canals to ...
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... Irrigation Project . Engineering News - Record , Sept. 24 , 1925 . Planning the Columbia Basin Development . Reclamation Era , July 1927 . Columbia Basin Project Report Shows Feasibility . Recla- mation Era , March 1932 . Preliminary ...
... Irrigation Project . Engineering News - Record , Sept. 24 , 1925 . Planning the Columbia Basin Development . Reclamation Era , July 1927 . Columbia Basin Project Report Shows Feasibility . Recla- mation Era , March 1932 . Preliminary ...
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... irrigation projects authorized under the Reclamation Act of 1902 , and comprises about 250,000 acres of irrigated lands on either side of Salt River . The first problem encountered was the provision of an adequate storage system with a ...
... irrigation projects authorized under the Reclamation Act of 1902 , and comprises about 250,000 acres of irrigated lands on either side of Salt River . The first problem encountered was the provision of an adequate storage system with a ...
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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