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Features of concrete-gravity dam, 70 ft max height, 6400 ft long, under construction by Tennessee Valley Authority, on Tennessce River, including single navigation lock of lift of 50 ft and power house for eight 35,000-hp hydraulic turbines; large crib cofferdam completed; electric shovols floated into cofferdam and unloaded after cofferdam had been unwatered.
Features of concrete-gravity dam, 70 ft max height, 6400 ft long, under construction by Tennessee Valley Authority, on Tennessce River, including single navigation lock of lift of 50 ft and power house for eight 35,000-hp hydraulic turbines; large crib cofferdam completed; electric shovols floated into cofferdam and unloaded after cofferdam had been unwatered.
TVA's second dam-building job
Eng News-Rec
Hall, W.M. (author)
Engineering News-Record ; 112
1934
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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