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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... length , from a point near Las Vegas . Nev . , to the site for Boulder City . Under a contract with the Lewis Construction Co. , of Los Angeles , Calif . , the Government extended this line 101⁄2 miles from Boulder City to. 2 DAMS AND ...
... length , from a point near Las Vegas . Nev . , to the site for Boulder City . Under a contract with the Lewis Construction Co. , of Los Angeles , Calif . , the Government extended this line 101⁄2 miles from Boulder City to. 2 DAMS AND ...
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... length of the four tunnels was 15,946 feet and required the removal of approximately 1,500,000 cubic yards of rock . The rock proved to be of excellent quality and no support was re- quired for any portion of the length . The general ...
... length of the four tunnels was 15,946 feet and required the removal of approximately 1,500,000 cubic yards of rock . The rock proved to be of excellent quality and no support was re- quired for any portion of the length . The general ...
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... length of form supported by a structural steel framework or jumbo , a separate gun car- riage containing two 2 - cubic yard pneumatic concrete guns with the necessary hoisting equipment , and a separate traveler connected to the gun ...
... length of form supported by a structural steel framework or jumbo , a separate gun car- riage containing two 2 - cubic yard pneumatic concrete guns with the necessary hoisting equipment , and a separate traveler connected to the gun ...
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... length , 750 feet thick at the base , and contained 516,000 cubic yards of earth and 157,000 cubic yards of rock . The upstream face of 3 : 1 slope was protected by 6 - inch concrete paving , laid on a 3 - foot thickness of rock blanket ...
... length , 750 feet thick at the base , and contained 516,000 cubic yards of earth and 157,000 cubic yards of rock . The upstream face of 3 : 1 slope was protected by 6 - inch concrete paving , laid on a 3 - foot thickness of rock blanket ...
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... length along the crest is 1,282 feet , the maximum . 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 ...
... length along the crest is 1,282 feet , the maximum . 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 ...
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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