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

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 ...

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 ...