Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam bi Ansel Adams, 1942
Offeecial name	Hoover Dam
Location	Clark Coonty, Nevada / Mohave Coonty, Arizona, U.S.
Purpose	Pouer, fluid control, watter storage, regulation, recreation
Status	In use
Construction begoud	1931
Appenin date	1936
Construction cost	$49 million (1931) $777 million (2016)
Awner(s)	Unitit States Govrenment
Operator(s)	U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Dam an spillweys
Teep o dam	Concrete gravity-airch
Impoonds	Colorado River
Hicht	726.4 ft (221.4 m)
Lenth	1,244 ft (379 m)
Elevation at crest	1,232 ft (376 m)
Weenth (crest)	45 ft (14 m)
Weenth (base)	660 ft (200 m)
Dam vollum	3,250,000 cu yd (2,480,000 m3)
Spillwey teep	2 controlled drum-gate
Spillwey capacity	400,000 cu ft/s (11,000 m3/s)
Reservoir
Creauts	Lake Mead
Tot capacity	28,537,000 acre⋅ft (35.200 km3)
Active capacity	15,853,000 acre⋅ft (19.554 km3)
Inactive capacity	10,024,000 acre⋅ft (12.364 km3)
Catchment aurie	167,800 sq mi (435,000 km2)
Surface aurie	247 sq mi (640 km2)
Maximum lenth	112 mi (180 km)
Maximum watter deepth	590 ft (180 m)
Normal elevation	1,219 ft (372 m)
Power Station
Operator(s)	U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Commission date	1936 - 1961
Hydraulic heid	590 ft (180 m) (Max)
Turbines	13× 130 MW 2× 127 MW 1× 68.5 MW 1× 61.5 MW Francis-teep 2× 2.4 MW Pelton-teep
Instawed capacity	2,080 MW
Annual generation	4.2 billion kWh
Wabsteid Bureau of Reclamation: Lower Colorado Region - Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Naitional Historic Laundmerk
Nearest ceety	Boulder City, Nevada
Coordinates	36°0′56″N 114°44′16″W
Biggit	1933
Airchitect	Six Companies, Inc. (structural), Gordon Kaufmann (exteriors)
Airchitectural style	Art Deco
MPS	Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS (AD)
NRHP Reference #	81000382
Significant dates
Addit tae NRHP	Aprile 8, 1981
Designatit NHL	August 20, 1985

Hoover Dam, ance kent as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon o the Colorado River, on the border atween the U.S. states o Nevada an Arizona. It wis constructit atween 1931 an 1936 during the Great Depression an wis dedicatit on September 30, 1935, bi Preses Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction wis the result o a massive effort involvin thoosands o wirkers, an cost ower ane hunder lives. The dam wis controversially named efter Preses Herbert Hoover.