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Historic American Engineering Record, Owyhee Dam. Volume 2. Historical and Descriptive Data
Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superceded in 1936 with the completion of 726-foot high Hoover Dam. Owyhee Dam has engineering significance as the proving ground for construction techniques developed by Bureau of Reclamation engineers for use at Hoover Dam. Historic apparatus for monitoring tests is still in place on the interior of Owyhee Dam. Owyhee also has engineering significance for its ancillary features. The ring gate on the Owyhee Dam spillway was the first ever built. It was the first dam in which a freight elevator was installed. Upon its completion, Owyhee Dam began storing water for use by farmers on the Owyhee Project, one of the most important in the development of irrigated agriculture in Oregon.
Historic American Engineering Record, Owyhee Dam. Volume 2. Historical and Descriptive Data
Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superceded in 1936 with the completion of 726-foot high Hoover Dam. Owyhee Dam has engineering significance as the proving ground for construction techniques developed by Bureau of Reclamation engineers for use at Hoover Dam. Historic apparatus for monitoring tests is still in place on the interior of Owyhee Dam. Owyhee also has engineering significance for its ancillary features. The ring gate on the Owyhee Dam spillway was the first ever built. It was the first dam in which a freight elevator was installed. Upon its completion, Owyhee Dam began storing water for use by farmers on the Owyhee Project, one of the most important in the development of irrigated agriculture in Oregon.
Historic American Engineering Record, Owyhee Dam. Volume 2. Historical and Descriptive Data
1992
125 pages
Report
No indication
English
Civil Engineering , Agricultural Equipment, Facilities, & Operations , Electric Power Production , Education, Law, & Humanities , Water storage , History , Water supply , Engineering structures , Irrigation systems , Construction , Impoundments , Lake Owyhee , Hydroelectric power , Reservoirs , Oregon , Concrete , Dam design , Agricultural engineering , Owyhee Dam , Malheur County(Oregon) , Owyhee Project
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