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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... pipes . This equipment was operated on the same rails that were used for the side wall jumbo and was kept not less than 150 feet behind the completed side walls . Four - cubic - yard agitator bodies were hoisted off trucks and the ...
... pipes . This equipment was operated on the same rails that were used for the side wall jumbo and was kept not less than 150 feet behind the completed side walls . Four - cubic - yard agitator bodies were hoisted off trucks and the ...
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... pipe provided for future grouting after the dam was practically complete . A system of piping over the entire abutment areas , with outlet boxes spaced approximately 10 feet apart in a checker- board arrangement , was provided for ...
... pipe provided for future grouting after the dam was practically complete . A system of piping over the entire abutment areas , with outlet boxes spaced approximately 10 feet apart in a checker- board arrangement , was provided for ...
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... pipes and gallery forms . Each lift was finished with 26- by 5 % 1⁄2 - inch horizontal keys , spaced 10 feet apart . As ... pipe system ; and , second , circulation of refrigerated water through the same system . An atmospheric type of ...
... pipes and gallery forms . Each lift was finished with 26- by 5 % 1⁄2 - inch horizontal keys , spaced 10 feet apart . As ... pipe system ; and , second , circulation of refrigerated water through the same system . An atmospheric type of ...
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... 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 still plastic . All sections of the pipe were provided ...
... 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 still plastic . All sections of the pipe were provided ...
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... pipes leading to the canyon - wall outlet works . The horse- shoe tunnels were not lined until the 102 - inch pipes were placed , when concrete was backfilled between the piping and the tunnel walls to form a penstock anchor . From the ...
... pipes leading to the canyon - wall outlet works . The horse- shoe tunnels were not lined until the 102 - inch pipes were placed , when concrete was backfilled between the piping and the tunnel walls to form a penstock anchor . From 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