Hoover Dam

Use for road transport

U.S. Highway 93 on Hoover DamHoover Dam serves as a crossing for U.S. Route 93. The two lane section of road approaching the dam is narrow, has several dangerous turns, and is subject to rock slides.

Additionally, In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks there are significant security concerns. Because of the attack the Hoover Dam Bypass project was expedited. The Hoover Dam Bypass is scheduled to be completed in 2010 and will divert US 93 traffic 1,500 feet downstream of the dam.[14] The bypass will include a composite steel and concrete arch bridge, tentatively named the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge.

Traffic across Hoover Dam is now restricted. Some types of vehicles are inspected prior to crossing the dam while semi-trailer trucks, buses carrying luggage, and enclosed-box trucks over 40 feet are not allowed on the bridge at all.[15] This traffic is diverted south to a Colorado River crossing close to Laughlin, Nevada.


[edit] Power distribution

One of two "Winged Figures of the Republic" by Oskar J.W. Hansen, part of the monument of dedication on the Nevada side of the dam.[16]The Bureau of Reclamation reports that the energy generated is allocated as follows:[17]

Area Percentage
Arizona 18.9527%
Nevada 23.3706%
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California 28.5393%
Burbank, CA 0.5876%
Glendale, CA 1.5874%
Pasadena, CA 1.3629%
Los Angeles, CA 15.4229%
Southern California Edison Co. 5.5377%
Azusa, CA 0.1104%
Anaheim, CA 1.1487%
Banning, CA 0.0442%
Colton, CA 0.0884%
Riverside, CA 0.8615%
Vernon, CA 0.6185%
Boulder City, NV 1.7672%


[edit] Statistics

Downstream from Hoover Dam, showing the river, power stations, and power lines.
Aerial shot of Lake Mead and Hoover Dam showing the high-water mark of the 1983 flood season along the shoreConstruction period: April 20, 1931 -- March 1, 1936
Construction cost: $49 million ($676 million adjusted for inflation)
Deaths attributed to construction: 112; 96 of them at the construction site[10][13][18]
Dam height: 726.4 ft (221.4 m), second highest dam in the United States. (Only the Oroville Dam is taller)
Dam length: 1244 ft (379.2 m)
Dam thickness: 660 ft (200 m) at its base; 45 ft (15 m) thick at its crest.
Concrete: 4.36 million yd³ (3.33 million m³)
Electric Power produced by the water turbines: 2,080 megawatts
Traffic across the dam: 13,000 to 16,000 people each day, according to the Federal Highway Administration
Lake Mead (full pool)[19]
area: 157,900 acres (639 km²), backing up 110 miles (177 km) behind the dam.
volume: 28,537,000 acre feet (35.200 km³) at an elevation of 1,221.4 feet (372.3 m) .
With 8 to 10 million visitors each year, including visitors to Hoover Dam but not all traffic across the dam, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area is the fifth busiest U.S. national park.

[edit] The naming controversy
The dam, originally planned for a location in Boulder Canyon, was relocated to Black Canyon for better impoundment, but was still known as the Boulder Dam project. Work on the project started on July 7, 1930. At the official beginning of the project on September 17, 1930, President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior Ray L. Wilbur, announced that the new dam on the Colorado River would be named Hoover Dam to honor the then President of the United States. Wilbur followed a long-standing tradition of naming important dams after the President who was in office when they were constructed, such as Wilson Dam and Coolidge Dam. Furthermore, Hoover was already campaigning for re-election in the face of the Depression and sought credit for creating jobs. A Congressional Act of February 14, 1931, made the name "Hoover Dam" official.

In 1932, Hoover lost his bid for reelection to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In his memoirs, Hoover writes of stopping to inspect progress on the dam, by night, on November 12, 1932 on his way back to Washington from Palo Alto after his defeat. He commented, "It does give me extraordinary pleasure to see the great dream I have so long held taking form in actual reality of stone and cement. It is now ten years since I became chairman of the Colorado River Commission.... This dam is the greatest engineering work of its character ever attempted by the hand of man." He went on to list its purposes, concluding, "I hope to be present at its final completion as a bystander. Even so I shall feel a special personal satisfaction." (Hoover adds a footnote to this, see below.) [20]



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