Discover how the Hoover Dam has transformed irrigation, hydroelectric power, and flood control in the American Southwest for ...

The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant. The contract is awarded to Six Companies, a construction and engineering firm made up of some of ...

The concrete also included a network of 582 miles of 1-inch steel pipe that first circulated river water and later chilled water from a refrigeration plant ... power generation, the Hoover Dam ...

Take in views of Lake Mead, the Hoover Dam and the Colorado River on this ... from the observation deck before descending to the Power Plant. Guides from the Bureau of Reclamation will take ...

sending thousand-degree steam blasting through turbines that churn out more than 3,000 megawatts of electric power, 50 percent more than Hoover Dam. The plant's cooling system is struggling to ...

Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power ... Dam. Final moneys for this purpose were voted by the last Congress. The project, which will do for Northern California what Herbert ...

Hoover Dam: Built in the 1930s ... Tours are available inside the dam, which houses a hydroelectric power plant. 13. Fountains of Bellagio: The dancing waters have become one of Las Vegas ...

Hoover Dam Powerplant: Located 530 feet below Black Canyon's surface, this power plant is where you'll find the dam's 17 generators, plus a tunnel drilled in the 1930s and a platform that sits on ...

CONSTRUCTION work on the Hoover Dam on the Colorado ... The water impounded in the dam will be used both for the production of power at the site and for irrigation purposes for lands at a lower ...