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Large scale construction at McNary
Concrete gravity dam on Columbia river, Ore, providing for navigation, power, irrigation and recreation benefits is 158 ft high; spillway section, 1310 ft long, controlled by 22 vertical lift gates of 50 ft span; concrete being placed within steel sheet piling cofferdam with earth filled wings; nonoverflow section of dam will include fishways and fish locks; power house equipped with Kaplan turbines of 111,300-hp capacity.
Large scale construction at McNary
Concrete gravity dam on Columbia river, Ore, providing for navigation, power, irrigation and recreation benefits is 158 ft high; spillway section, 1310 ft long, controlled by 22 vertical lift gates of 50 ft span; concrete being placed within steel sheet piling cofferdam with earth filled wings; nonoverflow section of dam will include fishways and fish locks; power house equipped with Kaplan turbines of 111,300-hp capacity.
Large scale construction at McNary
Western Construction News
1949
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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