Hoover Dam at Sunset
Scene: Hoover Dam - Between Arizona and Nevada
Date: July 26, 2004
Hoover Dam is the force that runs Las Vegas. It provides the vast energy required for all the activities in Vegas, including the many Celine Dion concerts and the slot machines mechanism that echoes ching-ching-ching when it ejects a few petty coins to an excited and gullible soul. Hoover Dam is one of the most amazing engineering feat humans have achieved. All your senses are filled as you approach it. The structure is larger than your field of vision can handle. Your eardrums are clogged up with sound waves of the almighty Colorado river bouncing off the million tons of concrete. If you visit Hoover Dam in mid July like I did, your body would be covered in a thick coat of sticky slimy sweat resulting from the scorching summer heat. If someone asks you: "What time is it at Hoover Dam?" You would be facing a difficult dilemma since Hoover Dam lies right between two time zones, betweem Arizona and Nevada.
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Hoover Dam Trivia
Hover Dam is...
• 726.4 feet high
• 1,244 feet across at the top
• 660 feet thick at the base
• 45 feet thick at the top
It ...
• weighs 6.6 millions ton ...
• can store up 2 years 'average' flow from the Colorado River ...
• total storage capacity can be measured in 30,500,000 acre feet ...
• the surface area of Lake Mead is 146,000 acres ...
• the maximum water surface elevation of Lake Mead is 1229 FT
• the maximum depth of Lake Mead is 590 FT
• the length of Lake Mead is 115 miles...
• has a power generating capacity of 2.8 million kilowatts...
• cost ONLY $49,000,000 to build Hoover Dam...
• the dam contains about 4,360,000 cubic yards of concrete...
• there are 96,000,000 LB's of steel and metalwork used by the dam - but none of it IN the dam...
• Construction on the Hoover Dam began September 30, 1930. The last concrete was poured in 1935.
• Hoover Dam was the first single structure to contain more masonry than the Great Pyramid at Giza.
• The concrete used to make Hoover Dam was set with cooling tubes that sped up a process which would normally have taken more than a century to complete.
• Once the worlds highest dam, it now ranks as 18th highest.
• Hoover Dam can store up to 9.2 trillion gallons of the Colorado River in its reservoir, Lake Mead.
• Hoover Dam has 17 generators giving it the capacity to produce over 2,000 megawatts of electricity.
For more, visit http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/
I feel bad about reducing the photo size for on-line documentation. It reduces so much details. If anyone want to see in a larger size, (also for my reference) I included a 533x800 version. Just click the link next to it.
Date: July 26, 2004
Hoover Dam is the force that runs Las Vegas. It provides the vast energy required for all the activities in Vegas, including the many Celine Dion concerts and the slot machines mechanism that echoes ching-ching-ching when it ejects a few petty coins to an excited and gullible soul. Hoover Dam is one of the most amazing engineering feat humans have achieved. All your senses are filled as you approach it. The structure is larger than your field of vision can handle. Your eardrums are clogged up with sound waves of the almighty Colorado river bouncing off the million tons of concrete. If you visit Hoover Dam in mid July like I did, your body would be covered in a thick coat of sticky slimy sweat resulting from the scorching summer heat. If someone asks you: "What time is it at Hoover Dam?" You would be facing a difficult dilemma since Hoover Dam lies right between two time zones, betweem Arizona and Nevada.
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Hoover Dam Trivia
Hover Dam is...
• 726.4 feet high
• 1,244 feet across at the top
• 660 feet thick at the base
• 45 feet thick at the top
It ...
• weighs 6.6 millions ton ...
• can store up 2 years 'average' flow from the Colorado River ...
• total storage capacity can be measured in 30,500,000 acre feet ...
• the surface area of Lake Mead is 146,000 acres ...
• the maximum water surface elevation of Lake Mead is 1229 FT
• the maximum depth of Lake Mead is 590 FT
• the length of Lake Mead is 115 miles...
• has a power generating capacity of 2.8 million kilowatts...
• cost ONLY $49,000,000 to build Hoover Dam...
• the dam contains about 4,360,000 cubic yards of concrete...
• there are 96,000,000 LB's of steel and metalwork used by the dam - but none of it IN the dam...
• Construction on the Hoover Dam began September 30, 1930. The last concrete was poured in 1935.
• Hoover Dam was the first single structure to contain more masonry than the Great Pyramid at Giza.
• The concrete used to make Hoover Dam was set with cooling tubes that sped up a process which would normally have taken more than a century to complete.
• Once the worlds highest dam, it now ranks as 18th highest.
• Hoover Dam can store up to 9.2 trillion gallons of the Colorado River in its reservoir, Lake Mead.
• Hoover Dam has 17 generators giving it the capacity to produce over 2,000 megawatts of electricity.
For more, visit http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/
I feel bad about reducing the photo size for on-line documentation. It reduces so much details. If anyone want to see in a larger size, (also for my reference) I included a 533x800 version. Just click the link next to it.