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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... miles northeast of Yuma , Ariz . , and on the All - American Canal , to extend from Imperial Dam to a point about 12 miles west of Calexico , Calif . The total irrigable area which can be served from the All - American Canal is about ...
... miles northeast of Yuma , Ariz . , and on the All - American Canal , to extend from Imperial Dam to a point about 12 miles west of Calexico , Calif . The total irrigable area which can be served from the All - American Canal is about ...
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... miles in 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 10 % 1⁄2 miles from Boulder. 2 DAMS ...
... miles in 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 10 % 1⁄2 miles from Boulder. 2 DAMS ...
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... miles . This highway was extended by the Government to the rim of Black Canyon under a contract with the General Con- struction Co. of Seattle , Wash . , providing for a gravel- base , oil - surfaced highway , 22 feet wide and 8.3 miles ...
... miles . This highway was extended by the Government to the rim of Black Canyon under a contract with the General Con- struction Co. of Seattle , Wash . , providing for a gravel- base , oil - surfaced highway , 22 feet wide and 8.3 miles ...
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... miles of tubing were embedded in the dam . The cooling pipes were laid directly on top of each 5 - foot lift of concrete after the concrete had hardened . They were anchored by wire loops buried in the concrete while the concrete was ...
... miles of tubing were embedded in the dam . The cooling pipes were laid directly on top of each 5 - foot lift of concrete after the concrete had hardened . They were anchored by wire loops buried in the concrete while the concrete was ...
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... miles from the rim of the canyon . The shop building was a steel - frame and galvanized - steel - covered structure , 85 feet wide and 520 feet long , equipped with three 75 - ton overhead traveling cranes for handling steel plates and ...
... miles from the rim of the canyon . The shop building was a steel - frame and galvanized - steel - covered structure , 85 feet wide and 520 feet long , equipped with three 75 - ton overhead traveling cranes for handling steel plates and ...
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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