Colorado River at Hoover Dam

[jelag]

My son shares that the only public traffic across the unit he's on, is a school bus 2X's a day. All other traffic goes around. That's an additional 65 miles now that the full security measures are in place. Police and emergency services have to radio ahead for clearance (they don't get keys).

I've read, that a small delivery van, with the right stuff will do the job and I'm guessing that on any of the major rivers that would mean many thousand's of lives. .

Nisaacs... I was in one of tunnels where the water flows to the turbine's and had to sign a release document... but can you imagine 50-70 years ago... thousands of men crawling around building these things... Where my boy is at, they are doing some major upgrades on systems that are now 50 years old... they've only had simple maintenance monthly over the last 50 years and now need to be upgraded... As a boy (8 or 9) I was in Hoover... and didn't appreciate it. . but with my son's job I've had a chance to crawl around a couple of these facilities. . I'm just amazed each time.....

BTW Nick - how big is Snowflake,

 

[MLee]

That visiter center will suffer the lack of visiters.

 

[Yo Hoot]

Awesome construction project. Here are the construction pictures. .

Hoover Dam Bypass

 

[Grizzly]

Yo Hoot, Those are great pics, thanks.



I have many of the same pictures that I took since my wife and I drive to Las Vegas every 6 to 12 months. I've been keeping an eye on that great piece of engineering and construction. It should be one of the top 20 wonders of the world.



george

 

[NIsaacs]

Jim, Snowflake is a small rural town near the Mogollon Rim of the White Mountains. About 5,000 I would say, 5600 foot elevation, high desert, two stop lights now Do a Wikipedia search, a lot of good info.



Showlow is the main hub for the area, about 12,000, 6400 feet elevation, just getting into the pine trees. Near by is the White Mountain Apache Tribe with Mount Baldy about 11,000 feet and the largest stand of Ponderosa Pine in the world.



Years ago I did the tour of the Glen Canyon Dam too, (Colorado River), very interesting.



Nick

 

[Crash&Burn]

Lots of great info here..... can't wait to see it.

About the only thing missing is the number of worker's buried in the concrete of the dam... ... ... 0

 

[Grizzly]

Lots of great info here..... can't wait to see it.

About the only thing missing is the number of worker's buried in the concrete of the dam... ... ... 0

The answer is none. See attached.



Burried in Hoover Dam

 

[Ram4Sam]

Jim, on the Nevada side there is a small parking lot you can park in ... . just past the checkpoint... and go walk the thing. I did a few weeks back, and I'm afraid of heights !! Just have to use the "Hoover Dam " exit off the new road now. Here are a few pics I took with the cell phone, just happened to catch the paddlewheeler on its lunch time cruise as it was turning around ! White bathtub ring is where the lake has dropped 130' in the last decade... telling ya', Vegas is going to be a ghost town before long !

MMeier, Since you are familiar with the dam, here are a couple of pics from the dam back in the mid 1980's. As you can see, it got a bit too full... Sam

 

[MMeier]

Yep, remember that well, if I look hard enough I have some actual pics of that myself also . Don't think we will see that ever again. Been around here for 30+ years now !

 

[AH64ID]

Pretty cool. I have driven over the dam 3 times in the last year, and will be heading thru again next year. It will be nice to shave some time, thou the dam is pretty fun!

 

[gtoli]

Jim, Snowflake is a small rural town near the Mogollon Rim of the White Mountains. About 5,000 I would say, 5600 foot elevation, high desert, two stop lights now Do a Wikipedia search, a lot of good info.

Howdy nieghbor

 

[NIsaacs]

Traveling to Henderson tomorrow for training, glad the bridge has concrete barriers on the sides, I can't look down that way



Hi gtoli, welcome to the "good truck" site!



Nick

 

[gtoli]

Thanks Nick, glad to be here and glad to have a "good truck"!

 

[Crash&Burn]

The answer is none. See attached.



Burried in Hoover Dam

Hi Griz... ..... I knew the answer (see last digit of my post) just trying to start something. :-{}:-{}

 

[BILLUA]

We watched that being built from the lago side over the years from the boat.



I have pics from the rock blasting all the way to the last piece being fitted that way.



A really amazing piece of engineering!

 

[Grizzly]

Hi Griz... ..... I knew the answer (see last digit of my post) just trying to start something. :-{}:-{}

I didn't see the last digit or wasn't paying attention to it, however I'm glad I looked it up because I alway thought that some workers were entombed in the concrete. When I was in engineering school at UNM in the mid 70's, one of my professors said he worked on the dam in his younger days and spoke about the engineering and construction of the dam and I thought he said that some workers were entombed.



george

 

[Crash&Burn]

I didn't see the last digit or wasn't paying attention to it, however I'm glad I looked it up because I alway thought that some workers were entombed in the concrete. When I was in engineering school at UNM in the mid 70's, one of my professors said he worked on the dam in his younger days and spoke about the engineering and construction of the dam and I thought he said that some workers were entombed.



george

I've taken the dam tour 3 times, each was different and really fascinating, but they always brought that issue up. Each pour was only about 12 inches thick so a worker would lay down to be entombed.....

Will have to make another trip to see the new bridge!

 

[Jack in Alaska]

New Bridge.

My wife and I took the tour down into the bowels of the dam in 1965 on our honeymoon trip to Mexico. I was a new Civil Engineer then and the dam fascinated me as it still does today.

Then the new bridge project started. Wow... ... ... what an engineering job that would be. WE saw it at it's inception, including the smashed crane, and have driven that way on our trips both fall and spring every year to completion. The trip this fall over the completed project was great but anticlimactic as one does not even know you are on a bridge. The fear of heights folks will have no problem as it is invisible from a car or pick-up.

It is still an amazing project and I wished that I could have been part of it in the twilight of my engineering career.

 

[Grizzly]

My wife and I took the tour down into the bowels of the dam in 1965 on our honeymoon trip to Mexico. I was a new Civil Engineer then and the dam fascinated me as it still does today.

Then the new bridge project started. Wow... ... ... what an engineering job that would be. WE saw it at it's inception, including the smashed crane, and have driven that way on our trips both fall and spring every year to completion. The trip this fall over the completed project was great but anticlimactic as one does not even know you are on a bridge. The fear of heights folks will have no problem as it is invisible from a car or pick-up.

It is still an amazing project and I wished that I could have been part of it in the twilight of my engineering career.

Jack, that's kind of how I feel. I too wish I could have been a part of that, however my engineering background is Soil Mechanics with the Corps of Engineers, not Structual.



george