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 28
... abutment . The river bed is approximately 3,000 feet wide between the rock abutments which arise from the canyon floor on about 11⁄2 : 1 and 1 : 1 slopes , respectively , at the right and left can- yon walls . The river bends sharply ...
... abutment . The river bed is approximately 3,000 feet wide between the rock abutments which arise from the canyon floor on about 11⁄2 : 1 and 1 : 1 slopes , respectively , at the right and left can- yon walls . The river bends sharply ...
Page 29
... abutment material is composed of granite , ranging from a massive or coarse - grained type on the right side to a fine - grained porphyritic type approaching the left abutment . The rock has proved to be hard and sound and well suited ...
... abutment material is composed of granite , ranging from a massive or coarse - grained type on the right side to a fine - grained porphyritic type approaching the left abutment . The rock has proved to be hard and sound and well suited ...
Page 30
... left abutment , to house three main generating units and two service units capable of producing 520,000 kilowatts . Plans for future development of the power plant called for embedding the penstocks in the concrete of the dam and ...
... left abutment , to house three main generating units and two service units capable of producing 520,000 kilowatts . Plans for future development of the power plant called for embedding the penstocks in the concrete of the dam and ...
Page 36
... left powerhouse on the west side of the river will be constructed under the contract for completion of the dam , but ... abutment end of each plant . The control building for the plant at the east abutment will be 65 feet long , and for ...
... left powerhouse on the west side of the river will be constructed under the contract for completion of the dam , but ... abutment end of each plant . The control building for the plant at the east abutment will be 65 feet long , and for ...
Page 37
... left abutment , and connection between the powerhouse and pumping plant will be through a bus gallery which will penetrate the left abutment . The unusual size of the pumps has resulted in substituting a novel method for starting , in ...
... left abutment , and connection between the powerhouse and pumping plant will be through a bus gallery which will penetrate the left abutment . The unusual size of the pumps has resulted in substituting a novel method for starting , in ...
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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