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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... feet in height to gigantic storage dams of unprece- dented proportions ... foot Shoshone Dam on the Shoshone River in Wyoming , in 1910 , it was the high- est ... second edition of " Dams and Control Works " therefore is in part a review ...
... feet in height to gigantic storage dams of unprece- dented proportions ... foot Shoshone Dam on the Shoshone River in Wyoming , in 1910 , it was the high- est ... second edition of " Dams and Control Works " therefore is in part a review ...
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... feet in the canyons to a maxi- mum of 8 miles . Initially it is contemplated that 9,500,000 acre - feet of storage capacity will be reserved primarily for flood - control purposes , with incidental use for the production of second- ary ...
... feet in the canyons to a maxi- mum of 8 miles . Initially it is contemplated that 9,500,000 acre - feet of storage capacity will be reserved primarily for flood - control purposes , with incidental use for the production of second- ary ...
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... feet , mounted on wheels which traveled on rails laid true to line and grade ... second ; and above the side wall sections the roof or arch section of 110 ... feet , except in those portions of the two outer tunnels which were later to be ...
... feet , mounted on wheels which traveled on rails laid true to line and grade ... second ; and above the side wall sections the roof or arch section of 110 ... feet , except in those portions of the two outer tunnels which were later to be ...
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... feet above the top of the diversion tunnels . A freeboard of 13 feet was provided for a discharge of 200,000 second - feet through the tunnels . The dam was 450 feet in length , 750 feet thick at the base , and contained 516,000 cubic ...
... feet above the top of the diversion tunnels . A freeboard of 13 feet was provided for a discharge of 200,000 second - feet through the tunnels . The dam was 450 feet in length , 750 feet thick at the base , and contained 516,000 cubic ...
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... feet ARIZONA SPILLWAY POWER PLANT Canyon wall outlet works Stoney gate 1000 ... foot centers . A total of 54,400 linear feet of holes was drilled and 60,024 ... second , that the base of the dam should be located wholly within the area ...
... feet ARIZONA SPILLWAY POWER PLANT Canyon wall outlet works Stoney gate 1000 ... foot centers . A total of 54,400 linear feet of holes was drilled and 60,024 ... second , that the base of the dam should be located wholly within the area ...
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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