Dams and Control WorksU.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - Dams A description of representative storage and diversion dams and high-pressure reservoir outlet works constructed by the Bureau of Reclamtion. |
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acre-feet All-American Canal Anderson Ranch Dam arch dams backfill bucket Bureau buttress cableway canal capacity cement cofferdam Colorado River compacted concrete dam conduit construction contraction joints cooling cubic feet cubic yards cut-off trench DAMS AND CONTROL Davis Dam diameter discharge diversion dam diversion tunnel downstream face drilled earth dams elevation embankment excavation feet long feet per second flood flow gallery Grand Coulee gravity grout headworks hoist holes Hoover Dam Hungry Horse Dam hydraulic impervious inches installed intake irrigation layers left abutment load located material maximum miles mixing plant needle valve operating outlet pipes overflow penstock placed power plant powerhouse pressure pumping radial gates Reclamation reservoir reservoir water right abutment riprap river channel roller roller gates sand and gravel Shasta Dam silt slide gates slope sluiceway spillway spillway crest steel storage stream structure tion tower trashrack upstream face vertical water surface weir zone
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Page 33 - That for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof...
Page 119 - Lower Basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River System below Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River System which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the System below Lee Ferry. (h) The term "domestic use...
Page 119 - ... (a) The Green Mountain Reservoir, or similar facilities, shall be constructed and maintained on the Colorado River above the present site of the diversion dam of the Shoshone power plant, above Glenwood Springs, Colo., with a capacity of 152,000 acrefeet of water, with a reasonable expectancy that it will fill annually. Of said capacity, 52,000 acre-feet of water stored therein shall be available as replacement in western Colorado, of the water which would be usable there if not withheld...
Page 119 - Upper Basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River System above Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River System which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the...
Page 17 - ... The foundation rock is a blue-gray limestone which contains appreciable quantities of clay, silica, and magnesia. The rock is somewhat superior to pure limestone for the foundation of an engineering structure since the impurities have increased its hardness and greatly lessened its solubility. The bedding planes of the rock are regular and range in thickness from a few inches to several feet. The planes all dip in one direction so that the stripped foundation followed rather closely the planes...
Page 15 - Stockholm (1938), as follows : — "siliceous materials which, though not cementitious In themselves, contain constituents which at ordinary temperatures will combine with lime in the presence of water to form compounds which have a low solubility and possess cementing properties.
Page 1 - ... contemplate immediate initiation of construction. A supplementary appropriation request will be made for $7 million, as noted in the President's budget, to start these important resource developments. Their construction will continue the pattern of Federal construction of such large-scale projects as the Central Valley project in California, the Columbia Basin project in Washington, and the Missouri Basin project in the Great Plains States. Here then is a practical application of our power...
Page 13 - Hungry Horse Dam.— Hungry Horse Dam is located on the South Fork of the Flathead River, about 9 miles southeast of Columbia Falls, Montana.
Page 151 - At both abutments, several units of the dam are 150 151 fyclr fill training dike ~ founded on rock; otherwise the dam is of the floating type, resting on the sandy bed of the river and divided into units to give some flexibility.
Page 61 - ... Dominion, Sulphur, and Quartz Creeks, northern tributaries of Indian River. A 100-mile network of roads connect all operations with Dawson and with the company's office, shops, gold room, etc., at Bear Creek, 8 miles east of Dawson. The company also operates a 15,000-hp hydroelectric plant on Klondike River about 4 miles below the junction of the north and south forks of the river. This plant supplies power to the city of Dawson, and drives the dredges and other mining equipment. Available figures...