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    The document summarizes key details about the Hoover Dam project including: 1) The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam constructed between 1931-1936 across the Colorado River in the Black Canyon between Nevada and Arizona. 2) It impounds Lake Mead and was a major public works project undertaken during the Great Depression that provided thousands of jobs and helped stimulate the economy. 3) The dam generates hydropower, provides water for irrigation, and is a major tourist attraction while also eliminating natural flooding of the Colorado River that impacted native species.

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    The document summarizes key details about the Hoover Dam project including: 1) The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam constructed between 1931-1936 across the Colorado River in the Black Canyon between Nevada and Arizona. 2) It impounds Lake Mead and was a major public works project undertaken during the Great Depression that provided thousands of jobs and helped stimulate the economy. 3) The dam generates hydropower, provides water for irrigation, and is a major tourist attraction while also eliminating natural flooding of the Colorado River that impacted native species.

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    The document summarizes key details about the Hoover Dam project including: 1) The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam constructed between 1931-1936 across the Colorado River in the Black Canyon between Nevada and Arizona. 2) It impounds Lake Mead and was a major public works project undertaken during the Great Depression that provided thousands of jobs and helped stimulate the economy. 3) The dam generates hydropower, provides water for irrigation, and is a major tourist attraction while also eliminating natural flooding of the Colorado River that impacted native species.

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    The document summarizes key details about the Hoover Dam project including: 1) The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam constructed between 1931-1936 across the Colorado River in the Black Canyon between Nevada and Arizona. 2) It impounds Lake Mead and was a major public works project undertaken during the Great Depression that provided thousands of jobs and helped stimulate the economy. 3) The dam generates hydropower, provides water for irrigation, and is a major tourist attraction while also eliminating natural flooding of the Colorado River that impacted native species.

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    By Group no – 5

    Aniket Banarjee -05


    Sachin Desai -15
    Sunil Kale -25
    Prashant Mali -35
    Darshan Pimple -45
    Sunil Naryani -55
    • Concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black
    Canyon of the Colorado River

    • Constructed between 1931 and 1936


    during the Great Depression

    • Impounds Lake Mead and is located near


    Boulder City, Nevada

    • Construction cost $49 million

    • Major tourist attraction


    • Improvement in electric power transmission
    technology

    • Edison Electric (EE) surveyed had potential of


    building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could
    generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW)
    •
    • Limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles
    (130 km)

    • Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal


    • Fall-Davis report & Federal concerns

    • Interstate compact

    • Concrete arch-gravity dam

    • The wedge-shaped dam would be 660 ft (200 m) thick at


    the bottom, narrowing to 45 ft (14 m) at the top

    • Winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a


    consortium called Six Companies, Inc.
     Height - 726.4 ft (221.4 m)
     Length - 1,244 ft (379 m)
     Crest width - 45 ft (14 m)
     Base width - 660 ft (200 m)
     Volume 3,250,000 cu yd. (2,480,000 m3)
     Impounds Colorado River
     Type of spillway 2 x controlled drum-gate
     Spillway capacity 400,000 cu ft/s (11,000 m3/s)
     Company hired large numbers of workers, more
    than 3,000 on the payroll by 1932

     Employment peaking at 5,251 in July 1934

     On August, 1937 first strike took place and second


    labor action took place in July 1935
     River needed to be diverted away

     Four diversion tunnels - two on the Nevada side


    and two on the Arizona side

     Tunnels were 56 feet (17 m) in diameter. Their


    combined length was nearly 16,000 ft or more than
    3 miles (5 km).
     The first concrete was poured into the dam on June 6,
    1933, 18 months ahead of schedule

     Used steel buckets 7 feet (2.1 m) high and almost 7 feet


    (2.1 m) in diameter

     A total of 3,250,000 cubic yards (2,480,000 m3) of concrete


    was used

     In addition, 1,110,000 cubic yards (850,000 m3) were used


    in the power plant and other works.

     More than 582 miles (937 km) of cooling pipes were placed


    within the concrete.
     Excavation completed in late 1933
     Filling of the lake began on February 1, 1935
     In the later half of 1936, water levels of Lake Mead
    were high enough to permit power generation, and
    the first three generators began operating
     By September 1939, the dam’s power plant had
    become had become the largest hydroelectricity
    facility in the world
     The final generator came to service only in 1961

     The average annual generation of Hoover Dam is 4.2


    Terawatt-Hour / Year

     Water released from the Dam irrigates over 400,000


    ha of land
     There are two lanes for automobile traffic across
    the top of the dam, which formerly served as
    Colorado River crossing

     The Hoover Dam Bypass opened on October 19,


    2010. With the opening of the bypass, traffic is no
    longer allowed over Hoover Dam
     Hoover Dam was opened to the tourists since its
    completion in 1937

     The has dam remained closed only on a few days


    since then and more than a million people visit the
    dam every year
     For almost six years after the construction of Hoover
    Dam, while Lake Mead filled up, virtually no water
    reached the mouth of the river

     The dam eliminated the natural flooding of River


    Colorado, which imperiled many species adapted to
    flooding, including plants and animals

     Some species of fishes native to the Colorado River


    are currently listed as endangered

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