Blue Mesa Dam and Powerplant: Colorado River Storage Project, Gunnison Division, Curecanti Unit, Colorado |
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Common terms and phrases
abutment acre-feet Anchor bars backfill Blockout BLUE MESA DAM Blue Mesa Reservoir borrow area BUREAU OF RECLAMATION butterfly valve COLORADO RIVER STORAGE compressor concrete conduit Contraction joint control structure crest cubic feet Curecanti unit DENVER Detail discharge diversion tunnel downstream drain drainage basin drill excavation feet per second Flip bucket gote gravel Grout Gunnison River hoist hollow-jet valves INSTALLATION intake structure INTERIOR BUREAU load located material maximum Morrow Point Morrow Point Dam operation outlet works intake penstock Pervious PLAN pounds per square powerplant pressure switch PROJECT GUNNISON DIVISION-CURECANTI pump RECLAMATION COLORADO RIVER REFERENCE DRAWINGS relay reservoir reservoir water ring-follower gates RIVER STORAGE PROJECT rock Rubber waterstop SCHIST seal SECTION A-A shown on figure spillway station stem stilling basin Stoplog STORAGE PROJECT GUNNISON tailwater THINK SAFETY UNITED turbine UNIT-COLORADO BLUE MESA UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT upstream vent wall water surface elevation welding zone
Popular passages
Page 5 - It has made possible a dream that persisted for decades — the taming of one of the longest, wildest, and most savage rivers in the country, the Colorado and its tributaries. The Colorado River storage project was planned to conserve the very limited precipitation which falls principally in the form of snow in the high mountains and to utilize it for municipal, industrial, and agricultural growth. The sum of...
Page 44 - That the Curecanti Dam shall be constructed to a height which will impound not less than nine hundred and forty thousand acre-feet of water or will create a reservoir of such greater capacity as can be obtained by a high waterline located at seven thousand five hundred and twenty feet above mean sea level...
Page 58 - The hoists were designed with a safety factor of five, based on the ultimate strength of the material and assuming 60 percent of the total rated torque applied on one end unit.
Page 426 - Orders should be accompanied by check or money order made payable to the Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado.
Page 4 - The dividing point between the two ba°ins is at Lee» Ferry, near the northern border of Arizona. Water allocated to the upper Ьамп was further apportioned to the individual States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming by the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact of 1948. The Colorado River Storage Project was initially authorized by Congress in 1956.
Page 53 - ... develop the hydraulic design of the morning glory inlet and its approach, the vertical bend, the horizontal conduit, and the stilling basin. 5. Hydraulic model studies of Yellowtail Dam spillway - Missouri River Basin Project, Montana: US Bur Reclamation Lab Rep HYD-483, 38 p, Denver, Colo, Aug 1964 Model studies were conducted to develop the hydraulic design of the approach channel, intake structure, tunnel transition section, inclined tunnel, vertical bend, tunnel trajectory, combination stilling...
Page 57 - G is the weight, v the velocity in feet per second, g the acceleration of gravity in feet per second in a second, and R the radius of curvature.