Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant Tour Part 1

These are a series of video clips that I took when some friends of mine and I visited the Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant back on December 28, 2008. Hoover Dam is located at Lake Mead at the Arizona and Nevada State line and just East of Las Vegas on US Highway 93. The highway goes over the dam, but a by pass bridge is being built across the Colorado River just down stream from the dam due to be completed in September of 2009. For more info about the bridge, go to
http://www.hooverdambypass.org/Whats_New.htm

Video part 1 mainly shows the outside area of the dam as viewed from the visitor center observation area and from the top of the dam and part 2 are video clips are scenes taken inside some of the inner passage way tunnels and also inside one of the big main 650 feet long and 75 feet high generator halls with some good views of the water powered turbine generator units.

Additional information about Hoover Dam and Lake Mead

THE DAM

Type: Arch gravity
Height: 726.4 feet (221.3 meters)
Crest (Top) length: 1244 feet (379.2 meters)
Crest (Top) width: 45 feet (13.7 meters)
Base Width or thickness at bottom: 660 feet (201.2 meters)
Volume of concrete: 3.25 million cubic yards (2.6 million cubicmeters)

THE POWERPLANT

Commercial generating units: 17
Station service units (To run dam and power plant) 2
Nameplate capacity: 2080 megawatts (Including station service)
Length of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 650 feet (198 meters)
Width of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 55 feet
Height (Floor to ceiling) of each generator hall (each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 75 feet (22.8 meters)

LAKE MEAD

Shoreline: 550 miles (885 Kilometers)
Capacity: 28,254,000 acre-feet (34.85 billion cubic meters)
Maximum depth: 498 feet (151.4 meters)
Surface area: 156,800 acres (63,455 hectares)
Length when full: 110 miles (177 kilometers)

These measurement figures are for the reservoir at the top of
conservation storage - elevation 1219.6 feet MSL (368.7 meters)

Official Hoover Dam website is at http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/

Camera Used: Sony DSC-H2 digital still camera used in mpeg video mode.

Camera used for some of the still photo images:
Sony DSC-H50

Video shots were done by Bill Wolverton and the still photos were done by Jon Chauvie

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Hoover Dam
• Dam
• Generator
• Lake Mead
• Highway 93
• Las Vegas
• Nevada
• Hydroelectric
• Power
• Electricity
• Bridge
• Reservoir
• Turbines

[braduh1]

@xXThomas724Xx It was August

[xXThomas724Xx]

lol the bridge wasnt completed until Nov. of 2010

[PaperWeight231]

@eychff it is now, this video was back in 2009 :)

[SinnFein4ever]

Of course if you go, you have to find a damn hotel, then you have to take the dam bus on a long dam ride, and put up with all the dam tourists taking dam pictures, and listen to the dam tour-guide give a dam lecture, then when you get there, you have to go through the dam security, and if you run out of film, you have to go to the dam giftshop to buy some dam film (and if you have kids, you have to listen to them begging for dam souvenirs). If you get hungry you have to buy the dam food.

;)

[eychff]

I thought that other bridge was already Completed.

[applejax2006]

thanks for sharing this as our tour just stopped on the outside for 15min.

i hope to return someday for a inside tour, nice job with the editing

[wal3290]

So exited going to Hoover Dam.(Field Trip)

Going there June 16!!

[jaytigerdtg]

thank you very much for uploading this video. it helps a lot. hydroelectricity is my assignment thesis. God bless friend.

[Jack4Lope]

Very nice, your videos of the hoover dam have been one of the best visual aids I've found for getting a good feeling of what the Hoover Dam really is like, without actually going there myself. While I'd love to go see it myself, being in Finland myself means its a pretty long distance to travel to see a dam, no mater how impressive it is ;)

[mcmiraclevalley]

Outstanding video and well done for I have been threw the tour many times"