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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... shaft , single - runner Francis type , with cast- steel spiral casings and single - piece , cast - steel runners ... shafts are 38 inches in diameter and weigh approximately 100,000 pounds each . Transformers are of the inert - gas ...
... shaft , single - runner Francis type , with cast- steel spiral casings and single - piece , cast - steel runners ... shafts are 38 inches in diameter and weigh approximately 100,000 pounds each . Transformers are of the inert - gas ...
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... shafts . Drilling grout holes in foundations for ... do ... 4.00 dam and spillway crests more than 100 feet and not more than 150 feet deep . Pressure grouting in tunnels , adits , and shafts . Grouting contraction joints in dam ...
... shafts . Drilling grout holes in foundations for ... do ... 4.00 dam and spillway crests more than 100 feet and not more than 150 feet deep . Pressure grouting in tunnels , adits , and shafts . Grouting contraction joints in dam ...
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... of the entire foundation area . The explorations included a series of vertical and inclined borings into bedrock , test shafts and trenches , and a geophysical survey . The total length 28 GRAND COULEE DAM Columbia Basin Project, ...
... of the entire foundation area . The explorations included a series of vertical and inclined borings into bedrock , test shafts and trenches , and a geophysical survey . The total length 28 GRAND COULEE DAM Columbia Basin Project, ...
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... shafts , 3.5 feet in diameter , connect the transverse galleries of different elevations and provide means by which the cooling water is distributed at 5 - foot vertical spaces between galleries . Two pump barges on the reservoir ...
... shafts , 3.5 feet in diameter , connect the transverse galleries of different elevations and provide means by which the cooling water is distributed at 5 - foot vertical spaces between galleries . Two pump barges on the reservoir ...
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... shaft , 42 inches in diameter . The hydraulic turbines will operate under a maximum head of 360 feet . They are designed to produce 150,000 horsepower at 120 revolutions per minute with a 335 - foot operating head . The draft tubes will ...
... shaft , 42 inches in diameter . The hydraulic turbines will operate under a maximum head of 360 feet . They are designed to produce 150,000 horsepower at 120 revolutions per minute with a 335 - foot operating head . The draft tubes will ...
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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