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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... slopes . The relatively open arroyos of the uplands approaching the main canyon become narrow ravines or gorges through which the streams from occasional rains plunge to the river over successive falls . The canyon walls at the dam site ...
... slopes . The relatively open arroyos of the uplands approaching the main canyon become narrow ravines or gorges through which the streams from occasional rains plunge to the river over successive falls . The canyon walls at the dam site ...
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... slopes of the north ridge . Directly in front of the administration building is a 5 - acre park from which the two principal streets diverge to outline the busi- ness district and provide radial thoroughfares . The Government ...
... slopes of the north ridge . Directly in front of the administration building is a 5 - acre park from which the two principal streets diverge to outline the busi- ness district and provide radial thoroughfares . The Government ...
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... slope was 5 : 1 , and the upstream slope , 2 : 1 . The downstream slope was protected by a thick rock blanket . A rock barrier , 54 feet high , 375 feet long , 200 feet thick at the base , and containing 98,000 cubic yards of rock , was ...
... slope was 5 : 1 , and the upstream slope , 2 : 1 . The downstream slope was protected by a thick rock blanket . A rock barrier , 54 feet high , 375 feet long , 200 feet thick at the base , and containing 98,000 cubic yards of rock , was ...
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... slopes of up- stream and downstream faces , showed that owing to the great height of the structure , such an ideal ... slope . The effect of nonlinear distribution of stress was found to increase the arch and cantilever stresses along ...
... slopes of up- stream and downstream faces , showed that owing to the great height of the structure , such an ideal ... slope . The effect of nonlinear distribution of stress was found to increase the arch and cantilever stresses along ...
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... slope . These slopes provide a width of 125 feet at the elevation of the weir crest at the upper end of the structure and 165 feet at the lower end . The spillway chan- nel has a uniform bottom width of 40 feet and the floor slopes on a ...
... slope . These slopes provide a width of 125 feet at the elevation of the weir crest at the upper end of the structure and 165 feet at the lower end . The spillway chan- nel has a uniform bottom width of 40 feet and the floor slopes on a ...
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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