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acre-feet All-American Canal Anderson Ranch Dam arch dams Axis backfill bucket Bureau buttress cableway canal capacity cement cofferdam Colorado River compacted concrete dam conduit construction contraction joints cooling cubic feet cubic yards cut-off trench diameter discharge diversion dam diversion tunnel downstream face drilled earth dams elevation embankment excavation feet long feet per second flood flow gallery Grand Coulee Grand Coulee Dam gravity grout headworks hoist holes Hoover Dam Hungry Horse Dam hydraulic impervious inches installed intake irrigation layers left abutment load located material maximum miles mixing plant needle valve operating outlet pipes overflow penstock placed power plant powerhouse pressure pumping radial gates Reclamation reservoir reservoir water right abutment riprap river channel roller roller gates SCALE OF FEET Shasta Dam silt slide gates slope sluiceway spillway spillway crest steel storage stream structure tion tower trashrack upstream face vertical water surface weir zone