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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... pumping from the Colorado River . After presedimentation near the river , the water is pumped 63⁄4 miles through two lifts to a 100,000- gallon tank at Boulder City for delivery by gravity to the treatment plant for filtration ...
... pumping from the Colorado River . After presedimentation near the river , the water is pumped 63⁄4 miles through two lifts to a 100,000- gallon tank at Boulder City for delivery by gravity to the treatment plant for filtration ...
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... pump . mounted on a truck with the mixing apparatus . Low - pressure grout holes were drilled through the invert and lower side walls to grout the temporary drainage sys- tems in the tunnel invert . Grout was applied under a pres- sure ...
... pump . mounted on a truck with the mixing apparatus . Low - pressure grout holes were drilled through the invert and lower side walls to grout the temporary drainage sys- tems in the tunnel invert . Grout was applied under a pres- sure ...
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... pumps mounted on a truck for mobility . More than 5,200 linear feet of " B " holes were drilled , taking a total of 6,664 sacks of cement . A total of 1,418 feet of holes was drilled along two faults , situated just upstream from the ...
... pumps mounted on a truck for mobility . More than 5,200 linear feet of " B " holes were drilled , taking a total of 6,664 sacks of cement . A total of 1,418 feet of holes was drilled along two faults , situated just upstream from the ...
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... pumping plant . It was then pumped through a supply header to the dam , circulated through the header Intersection of spillway and diversion tunnels December 15 , 1934. BOULDER DAM 9.
... pumping plant . It was then pumped through a supply header to the dam , circulated through the header Intersection of spillway and diversion tunnels December 15 , 1934. BOULDER DAM 9.
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... pumped through supply lines into headers supplying the coil system , then returned to the plant for recooling . An 8 ... pumping being used only to drive off surplus water and thin grout and to consolidate the film of grout in the joint ...
... pumped through supply lines into headers supplying the coil system , then returned to the plant for recooling . An 8 ... pumping being used only to drive off surplus water and thin grout and to consolidate the film of grout in the joint ...
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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