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Features of Boulder Canyon project involving construction of concrete dam over 700 ft. high, to develop 1,250,000 hp., all-American canal to irrigate nearly million acres, etc.; total estimated cost is $165,000,000; operating reservoir; problems met in design; control of discharge; river control during construction; unusual field conditions surmounted; power development; financial expectations; fighting sand. (See also Civil Eng vol. 1, no. 1, Oct. 1930, pp. 3-8, 5 figs., and discussion in no. 3, Dec., pp. 204-205)
Features of Boulder Canyon project involving construction of concrete dam over 700 ft. high, to develop 1,250,000 hp., all-American canal to irrigate nearly million acres, etc.; total estimated cost is $165,000,000; operating reservoir; problems met in design; control of discharge; river control during construction; unusual field conditions surmounted; power development; financial expectations; fighting sand. (See also Civil Eng vol. 1, no. 1, Oct. 1930, pp. 3-8, 5 figs., and discussion in no. 3, Dec., pp. 204-205)
Hoover dam
Eng. Soc. Boston. -- Jl
Mead, E. (author)
1930
15 pages
5 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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