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Contractor places 30,000 yards per day at swift
Swift Dam on Lewis River will be world's highest rolled earth structure, containing about 15,500,000 cu yd of material, rising 512 ft above base of concrete extension which caps steel pile cutoff wall; in spite of heavy rain, earth-fill embankment was placed in record time due to use of mud flow material as embankment earth.
Contractor places 30,000 yards per day at swift
Swift Dam on Lewis River will be world's highest rolled earth structure, containing about 15,500,000 cu yd of material, rising 512 ft above base of concrete extension which caps steel pile cutoff wall; in spite of heavy rain, earth-fill embankment was placed in record time due to use of mud flow material as embankment earth.
Contractor places 30,000 yards per day at swift
Pac Bldr Engr
Nelson, P. (author)
1958
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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