It was the highest dam in the world when it was completed in 1935.
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Each spillway designed to let floodwaters pass without harming the dam itself can handle the volume of water that flows over niagara falls.
Over the next five years a total of 21 000 men would work ceaselessly to produce what would be the largest dam of its time as well as one of the largest.
Hoover dam was an audacious and courageous undertaking.
Hoover dam is as tall as a 60 story building.
A traveler s guide not all vehicles are allowed to cross the dam.
Its base is as thick as two football fields are long.
Hoover dam 75th anniversary photographs a video and media coverage of the september 30 2010 event at the dam.
The crack in the upper center of the dam is a space left open for cooling and.
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Hoover dam fulfilled the goal of disseminating the one wild colorado river through the parched southwest landscape fueling the development of such major cities as los angeles las vegas and phoenix.
Hoover dam is a concrete arch gravity dam in the black canyon of the colorado river on the border between the u s.
This is a view of the hoover dam from upstream as construction continues near boulder city nev feb.
Roosevelt its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers and cost over one.