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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... rivers in the West has been undertaken . Outstanding structures of the Bureau are Boulder Dam on the Colorado River , completed in 1936 , and Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River , now in construction . Boulder Dam is extraordinary ...
... rivers in the West has been undertaken . Outstanding structures of the Bureau are Boulder Dam on the Colorado River , completed in 1936 , and Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River , now in construction . Boulder Dam is extraordinary ...
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... RIVER DAM . Grand Valley Project , Colorado EASTON DAM . Yakima Project , Kittitas Division , Washington WIND RIVER DAM . Riverton Project , Wyoming PART THREE - SPECIAL ARTICLES 137 144 152 157 163 168 FEDERAL RECLAMATION PROJECTS ...
... RIVER DAM . Grand Valley Project , Colorado EASTON DAM . Yakima Project , Kittitas Division , Washington WIND RIVER DAM . Riverton Project , Wyoming PART THREE - SPECIAL ARTICLES 137 144 152 157 163 168 FEDERAL RECLAMATION PROJECTS ...
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... river below the mouth of the Virgin River . The preliminary studies resulted in the concentration of work on the better damsites in Boulder and Black canyons in 1918. From 1918 until contracts for construction were awarded in 1931 ...
... river below the mouth of the Virgin River . The preliminary studies resulted in the concentration of work on the better damsites in Boulder and Black canyons in 1918. From 1918 until contracts for construction were awarded in 1931 ...
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... river over successive falls . The canyon walls at the dam site rise several hundred feet above the river , while the middle of the rock gorge is 110 to 127 feet below low - water elevation . The rocks forming the foundation and ...
... river over successive falls . The canyon walls at the dam site rise several hundred feet above the river , while the middle of the rock gorge is 110 to 127 feet below low - water elevation . The rocks forming the foundation and ...
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... river to provide access to the Arizona tunnels . Several miles of additional roads also were constructed by the contractor to reach various parts of the work . The contract for furnishing power was awarded to the Southern Sierras Power ...
... river to provide access to the Arizona tunnels . Several miles of additional roads also were constructed by the contractor to reach various parts of the work . The contract for furnishing power was awarded to the Southern Sierras Power ...
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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