Built in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River, Hoover Dam is located on the border of Nevada and Arizona, in the United States, the goal is to manage the Colorado River waters. Lake Mead, the largest dam in the world, helping to regulate water supply during floods and during periods of drought. Packages of Hoover Dam Tours include various options to see Factory Factory alone or together with the tunnel inspection.
While the dam stood up gracefully, inviting guests to see the majestic beauty and technology, physical dimensions and features to wonder in themselves. He stood up to a height of 726.4 meters, is 1224 feet long and 660 feet thick at the base.
At the time of completion in 1935, it was the largest concrete structure and the largest power station in the world produces, up to the Grand Coulee Dam took over in 1945. Lake Mead remains the largest reservoir in the world, with a surface area of 146,000 hectares. Dam storage capacity is 9.2 trillion gallons of water.
It weighs 6.6 million tons and was built with about 4.36 million cubic meters of concrete. cooling tubes are used a certain form of concrete, which is then an unproven technology, but it proved successful. Approximately 16,000 people work for the construction of dams, with more than 3,500 work at a certain time. The total cost of dam construction is $ 49, 000,000. Construction work began in 1931 and ended in 1935, two years earlier than the scheduled time.
There are 17 generators and have the capacity to produce 2000 megawatts of electricity, supplying to more than 750,000 people in the United States of Nevada and Arizona and most of Southern California. It supplies water to more than 25 million people in the United States southwest.
With so many large numbers and the technology associated with the dam, it is not surprising that Hoover Dam is one of the seven wonders of modern engineering by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), with more than 4,000 tourists who come every day to admire the beauty and wonder of structural .
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