Prineville Dam: Constructed 1958-1961, Crooked River Project, Oregon; Technical Record of Design and Construction |
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access shaft acre-feet adit Air inlet pipe Anchor bars approx backfill BASALT borrow area BOULDERS reported breccia brown sand BUREAU OF RECLAMATION CALCITE columnar basalt concrete construction contractor crest Crooked River project CYLINDER dense DENVER depth DOME downstream drain elevation embankment Figure fine-grained floor fragments gate chamber GRAVEL GRAVEL and BOULDERS grout HARD TO EXCAVATE hoop stress installed intake structure large amt left abutment LIMIT OF EQUIPMENT load measured when hole PALAGONITE pounds per square Prineville Dam PROJ DH pumice REACHED LIMIT RECLAMATION CROOKED RIVER reported by drillers reservoir water right abutment riprap SCALE OF FEET SECTION shaft house SILT SILTY SAND slightly vesicular slightly weathered slope small roots spillway spillway and outlet square inch station steel stilling basin stress subangular TALUS Total hoop tunnel upstream vertical vesicles vesicular wall wash sample contained Water level measured Water loss water-cement ratio YARD BACKHOE zone
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Page 70 - Officer in writing of: (1) subsurface or latent physical conditions at the site differing materially from those indicated in this contract, or (2) unknown physical conditions at the site, of an unusual nature, differing materially from those ordinarily encountered and generally recognized as inhering in work of the character provided for in this contract.
Page 126 - Stresses were determined using the general theory of cylindrical and hemispherical shells in which the thickness of the shell is small compared to the radius of the cylinder or hemisphere. In the present analysis, thicknesses of 0.15R and 0.20P were used. With wall dimensions of these magnitudes, the usual "membrane...