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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... steel suspension bridge across the 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 ...
... steel suspension bridge across the 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 ...
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... steel framework with an out- side diameter of 50 feet , mounted on wheels which traveled on rails laid true to line ... steel side . plates carrying curved steel screeds , were then set in place and pouring started . Concrete was hauled ...
... steel framework with an out- side diameter of 50 feet , mounted on wheels which traveled on rails laid true to line ... steel side . plates carrying curved steel screeds , were then set in place and pouring started . Concrete was hauled ...
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... steel sheet - piling , driven to bedrock along the upstream toe . The cut - off wall was joined to the face paving by a concrete wall and rubber seal which was protected by a puddled clay fill and a 5 - foot thickness of dumped rock ...
... steel sheet - piling , driven to bedrock along the upstream toe . The cut - off wall was joined to the face paving by a concrete wall and rubber seal which was protected by a puddled clay fill and a 5 - foot thickness of dumped rock ...
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... Steel bulkhead Intake towers- 30'Steel penstocks El . 12321 Adits ROCK RIVER BARRIER Canyon wall outlet 36-84 Needle valves Money gate Tunnel plug outlets 6-84 " Needle valves -Highway Lower portal road tunnel to power house NEVADA 500 ...
... Steel bulkhead Intake towers- 30'Steel penstocks El . 12321 Adits ROCK RIVER BARRIER Canyon wall outlet 36-84 Needle valves Money gate Tunnel plug outlets 6-84 " Needle valves -Highway Lower portal road tunnel to power house NEVADA 500 ...
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... steel drum gates . More than 600,000 cubic yards of rock were removed for the construction of the spillways . The ... steel drum gates , each 100 feet in length and 16 feet in height . The gates were built up of structural steel members ...
... steel drum gates . More than 600,000 cubic yards of rock were removed for the construction of the spillways . The ... steel drum gates , each 100 feet in length and 16 feet in height . The gates were built up of structural steel members ...
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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