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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... floors . Low - pressure grouting was performed in the arch section . of the tunnels to fill the voids between the lining and rock . Three holes , 1 % 1⁄2 inches in diameter , were drilled through the lining in the crown , one in the ...
... floors . Low - pressure grouting was performed in the arch section . of the tunnels to fill the voids between the lining and rock . Three holes , 1 % 1⁄2 inches in diameter , were drilled through the lining in the crown , one in the ...
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... floor slopes on a 12 percent grade from a depth of 75 feet at the upper end to a depth of 128 feet at a point opposite the lower end of the crest . From the downstream end of the last 100 - foot gate sec- tion , a 55 - foot length of ...
... floor slopes on a 12 percent grade from a depth of 75 feet at the upper end to a depth of 128 feet at a point opposite the lower end of the crest . From the downstream end of the last 100 - foot gate sec- tion , a 55 - foot length of ...
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... floor to the top of the roof . The Nevada house is 190 feet long , 37 feet wide , and the same height as the Arizona house . The steel outlet conduits enter the house through the back wall and connect with 96 - inch Paradox emergency ...
... floor to the top of the roof . The Nevada house is 190 feet long , 37 feet wide , and the same height as the Arizona house . The steel outlet conduits enter the house through the back wall and connect with 96 - inch Paradox emergency ...
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... floor . Needle valves are placed at approximately elevation 653 , 10 feet downstream from the emergency gates , on rein- forced concrete pedestals built integral with the floor of the operating chamber . The distance between the front ...
... floor . Needle valves are placed at approximately elevation 653 , 10 feet downstream from the emergency gates , on rein- forced concrete pedestals built integral with the floor of the operating chamber . The distance between the front ...
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... floor on which the screens were located , the selected size of aggregate was fed on to a conveyor belt , which was carried by steel trusses to a stone ladder and deposited into live storage over tunnels . The tunnels , equipped with ...
... floor on which the screens were located , the selected size of aggregate was fed on to a conveyor belt , which was carried by steel trusses to a stone ladder and deposited into live storage over tunnels . The tunnels , equipped with ...
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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