Hoover Dam

The Hoover Dam had successfully tamed the wild Colorado River by spanning from the Nevada wall to the Arizona wall. “Surveyors investigated seventy sites along the entire river's course and settled on Nevada's Boulder and Black Canyons, both offering a potential reservoir of more than thirty million acre-feet (Construction). The Hoover Dam is as tall as a sixty story building and its base is as thick as two football fields long. This was the tallest dam built at its time when completed in 1935. The dam had to be big, because it needed to hold back the biggest,... ... middle of paper ... ...Hoover Dam were many years ahead of their time and without them, we wouldn’t have the knowledge that we do today.

Herbert Hoover is proud of the dam. As he once said, “This morning I came, I saw, and I was conquered, as everyone would be who sees for the first time this great feat of mankind” (Dunar 311). Herbert Hoover showed his respect to all of the workers that worked on the great wonder of the world. Works Cited Dunar, Andrew J., and Dennis McBride. Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression.

Shea Company of Portland, MacDonald & Kahn Ltd, Pacific Bridge Company of Portland, Henry J. Kaiser, Bechtel Company of San Francisco were awarded the winning bid for the dam at forty eight million eight hundred ninety thousand nine hundred fifty five dollars. The construction management team had a Herculean task in building this behemoth and faced many problems in its construction. A few of the major issues posed to the team were diverting the Colorado River, provisioning the men and material to get the job done, and the actual construction of the Hoover Dam. The heights involved with project led to many safety obstacles that had to be overcame. Diverting the powerful Colorado River had to be ... ... middle of paper ... ...ementation of diverting the Colorado River, provisioning the men and material to get the job done, and constructing the dam are great examples of how an effective construction management team can get things done no matter the scale or complexity of work.

Objective: The Hoover Dam is significant to the civil engineering and society because it helped the United States during The Great Depression, it required new engineering techniques to be established to have it built, and at the time of its construction it was the tallest concrete dam in the United States. The memo will also describe some other basic information about the Hoover Dam and an inquiry into scientific, social, and symbolic significance of the Hoover Dam. Introduction: The Hoover Dam, at the time of its construction was the largest concrete dam in the world. The Hoover Dam was constructed under the Boulder Canyon Project, which was authorized in the year of 1928, one year prior to the start of The Great Depression. The Hoover Dams

The site of Hoover Dam is visited by millions of people that annually and will continue to provide energy to many cities. Another term that people call the Hoover Dam is a concrete arch gravity dam in the black canyon in the Colorado river. It is also on the border between Arizona and Nevada. This dam was originally named and known as the boulder dam, but in 1947 it was renamed in honor of president Herbert Hoover. This dam stood up to be 726 feet high and 1,244 feet long, the Hoover Dam was one of the largest man made structures in the world at that time.

Soon bureaucrats came together to create the Colorado River Project, wanting to create a series of dams along the Colorado River to create hydroelectric power and serve to control floods and droughts. With Buchanan dam well under way with a total of six planned Marshall Ford was the only dam designed primarily for flood control and the only dam in which USBR oversaw construction. With money scarce there was debate over the final height dam and it reservoir capacity. This issue resolves itself with the flood of 1938. Once completed Marshall Ford Dam would flood 65 miles of the Colorado to form Lake Travis, creating the largest of the seven reservoirs known as the Highland Lakes.

Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam on the Columbia River in Washington State, built by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser It is among the most famous dams in the United States. The reservoir it created is called the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake. The reservoir is named after the United States President who seemed to love dams and hydroelectric power and who was involved with the project through to the final completion of the dam. The dam was built as part of the Columbia Basin Project as a way to irrigate the desert areas of the Northwest United States. The dam started during the 1930s as a public works project and finished toward the beginning of World War Two.

All three of these empires rose and fell because of geography, which demonstrates how geography truly is the mother of history. The river valley of Ancient Egypt had plentiful resources and a stable river that delivered steady supply of silt. Ancient Greece had control over the sea and land that led them to great prosperity. The Aksum empire was an economic powerhouse because of its strategic location and resources. These three prosperous societies all owed their success to one thing, geography.

The question is should Lake Powell be refilled? History In 1922 the Colorado River Compact was organized. This organization allocated the resources of the Colorado River and its tributaries. The Upper Basin States (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming) realized that the Colorado River Compact had overestimated the river’s annual flow and wanted to guarantee their water rights. The only way the Upper Basin states saw fit to ensure their water was to literally hold onto their water in reservoirs.

No engineering project is quite like the Three Gorges Dam (TGD). The TGD is located in the Hubei province in China, spanning across the Yangtze River. It is a hydroelectric dam, stated by Zhang Cheng to be currently boasting 32 turbines with a nominal capacity of 22,500 Megawatts, making it the “worlds largest base of clean energy”. The TGD is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. A dam along the Three Gorges had long been an idea for a way to tackle flooding along the Yangtze river and was an idea that had been initially proposed in 1919 by Dr. Sun Yat Sen to prevent flooding that would frequently devastate the prime arable farmlands and the construction of the TGD began on the 14th of December 1994 (“Three Gorges Project, n.d.).