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Earthmoving methods differ at Amistad
Amistad Dam stretches across flatlands 12 mi upstream from Del Rio, Tex; 285 ft high, 2182 ft long concrete gravity section containing 950-ft long spillway and 16 tainter gates is flanked by 1.6 mi of embankment on United States side and 4 mi of embankment at Mexican end; United States contractor uses nine 35-ton end-dump trucks, loaded by three 5-cu yd articulated front loaders and one 4.5 cu yd crawler shovel to move fill for its 1.6 mi long section of embankment; Mexican contractor moves impervious material with six 45-cu yd bottom-dump wagons loaded by tractor-drawn loader, and four 28-cu yd self-propelled scrapers loaded by pushdozers; construction details and equipment.
Earthmoving methods differ at Amistad
Amistad Dam stretches across flatlands 12 mi upstream from Del Rio, Tex; 285 ft high, 2182 ft long concrete gravity section containing 950-ft long spillway and 16 tainter gates is flanked by 1.6 mi of embankment on United States side and 4 mi of embankment at Mexican end; United States contractor uses nine 35-ton end-dump trucks, loaded by three 5-cu yd articulated front loaders and one 4.5 cu yd crawler shovel to move fill for its 1.6 mi long section of embankment; Mexican contractor moves impervious material with six 45-cu yd bottom-dump wagons loaded by tractor-drawn loader, and four 28-cu yd self-propelled scrapers loaded by pushdozers; construction details and equipment.
Earthmoving methods differ at Amistad
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 175
1965
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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