Jamestown Dam: Constructed 1952-1953 |
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access road acre-feet adit axis batch borrow area borrow pit boulders cement channel and stilling CLAY,LEAN clayey coarse cofferdam concrete construction Contraction joint contractor control house crest cross drain cubic foot cubic yards cutoff collars cutoff trench discharge channel downstream conduit drill embankment excavation fill floor foundation gate chamber gate hanger glacial till graded gravelly grout cap Gutter high-pressure gates inlet structure installed intake structure James River Jamestown Dam Jamestown Reservoir joint filler Layer of mortar load located maximum MISSOURI RIVER BASIN mod plastic operations outlet channel Pierre shale pounds per square pump reinforced reservoir RESERVOIR WATER riprap RIVER BASIN PROJECT river channel rock Rubber waterstop sand and gravel SAND WITH EXCESS sandy SCALE OF FEET second-feet SECTION C-C settlement points Sewer pipe drain SILT SILTY CLAY slope specially compacted spillway station steel stilling basin storage Stutsman County sump pump thin-bedded upstream vertical wall
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Page 36 - ... n, the ratio of modulus of elasticity of steel to that of the concrete.
Page 5 - Reservoir was authorized by Section 9 of the Act of Congress approved December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, 891), referred to as the Flood Control Act of 1944.
Page 55 - June 8, 1954, 800 days being allowed for completion of the work. The work was completed and accepted by the Government on September 30, 1953, 251 days ahead of schedule.