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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... radial thoroughfares . The Government construction included an administra- tion building , municipal building and post office , dormi- tories for unmarried workers and visitors , garage and fire station , schoolhouse , community garages ...
... radial thoroughfares . The Government construction included an administra- tion building , municipal building and post office , dormi- tories for unmarried workers and visitors , garage and fire station , schoolhouse , community garages ...
Page 9
... radial and circumferential contraction joints . The blocks ranged in size from 25 by 30 feet at the downstream face at the base of the dam to 50 by 60 feet at the upstream face . Joints were interlocked by keys , formed to provide ...
... radial and circumferential contraction joints . The blocks ranged in size from 25 by 30 feet at the downstream face at the base of the dam to 50 by 60 feet at the upstream face . Joints were interlocked by keys , formed to provide ...
Page 10
... radial contrac- tion joints at both the upstream and downstream faces of the dam and across the circumferential joints at each junction with a radial joint . Horizontal grout stops were placed in every joint at 50 - foot vertical ...
... radial contrac- tion joints at both the upstream and downstream faces of the dam and across the circumferential joints at each junction with a radial joint . Horizontal grout stops were placed in every joint at 50 - foot vertical ...
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... radial contraction joint area and 129.09 square feet of circumferential contraction joint area , a total of 33,425 bags of cement being used . The approximate average thickness of the radial contraction joint openings was 0.126 inch and ...
... radial contraction joint area and 129.09 square feet of circumferential contraction joint area , a total of 33,425 bags of cement being used . The approximate average thickness of the radial contraction joint openings was 0.126 inch and ...
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... radial buttresses or fins to accommo- date the trashrack sections and afford structural support for the barrel . The width between faces of opposite fins varies from 82 feet at the base of the towers to 63 feet 8 %% inches at the top of ...
... radial buttresses or fins to accommo- date the trashrack sections and afford structural support for the barrel . The width between faces of opposite fins varies from 82 feet at the base of the towers to 63 feet 8 %% inches at the top of ...
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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