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    The Hoover Dam is a concrete dam located on the border of Arizona and Nevada that was built in the 1930s. It was constructed to control flooding of the Colorado River and provide water and electricity to the southwestern United States. Herbert Hoover played a key role in proposing and funding its construction. The massive project employed thousands of workers and pioneered innovative construction and cooling techniques to complete the dam ahead of schedule and under budget.

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    The Hoover Dam is a concrete dam located on the border of Arizona and Nevada that was built in the 1930s. It was constructed to control flooding of the Colorado River and provide water and electricity to the southwestern United States. Herbert Hoover played a key role in proposing and funding its construction. The massive project employed thousands of workers and pioneered innovative construction and cooling techniques to complete the dam ahead of schedule and under budget.

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    The Hoover Dam is a concrete dam located on the border of Arizona and Nevada that was built in the 1930s. It was constructed to control flooding of the Colorado River and provide water and electricity to the southwestern United States. Herbert Hoover played a key role in proposing and funding its construction. The massive project employed thousands of workers and pioneered innovative construction and cooling techniques to complete the dam ahead of schedule and under budget.

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    Hoover Dam: by Project Monsters

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    The Hoover Dam is a concrete dam located on the border of Arizona and Nevada that was built in the 1930s. It was constructed to control flooding of the Colorado River and provide water and electricity to the southwestern United States. Herbert Hoover played a key role in proposing and funding its construction. The massive project employed thousands of workers and pioneered innovative construction and cooling techniques to complete the dam ahead of schedule and under budget.

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    HOOVER DAM

    By Project Monsters
    Presenters: Nazimah Abdul Rahim
    Hakki Isik
    HOOVER DAM
    • Concrete dam in Black
    Canyon, on the border
    between Arizona and Nevada
    • Named after Herbert Hoover,
    who played an important role
    in its construction
    • Built by Six-Companies, Inc.
    • Operated by Bureau of
    Reclamation of the US Dept.
    of the Interior
    • Lake Mead is the reservoir
    constructed behind the dam
    The Need for a Dam
    • Turbulent Colorado River periodically flood
    vast areas of California and Arizona
    • The flood destroyed canals built for irrigation
    and drinkable water
    • Herbert Hoover proposed construction of the
    high dam to solve the problems
    Who is Herbert Hoover?
    • Was Secretary of
    Commerce under
    President Coolidge
    • Graduated from
    Stanford University
    • A successful mining
    engineer, humanitarian
    • Elected as the 31st
    President of the United
    States
    Questions That Were Raised
    What would be the location of the dam?
    Who would build the dam?
    How would the dam going to be
    financed?
    Which states would get the water and
    electricity?
    Scope
    • Construction of the high dam would
    control the periodic floods, store water
    for irrigation, municipal and industrial
    use
    • The customers would be the people
    getting water, electricity from the dam
    Resources
    • 5200 workers on the construction with 3
    shifts/day
    • 5 millions barrel of cement used in the
    concrete
    • 9,000 tons of structured steel components
    • 44,000 tons of large steel pipe and fittings
    • Giant cooling towers
    Time Management
    • Hoover met with the 7 state governors
    (AZ,CA,CO,NV,NM,UT,WO) to work out
    suitable arrangement for their states’ use
    • November 1922, Colorado River Compact was
    signed
    • In 1928, the Congress passed the Boulder
    Canyon Act, allocating $175 million for the
    dam construction
    Time Management
    • Composite bid was accepted for $50 mil by
    Six Companies in March 6 1931
    • Construction began in April 20 1931
    • June 1931, sufficient housing facilities were in
    place
    • Construction was completed in March 1, 1936
    • The construction was completed 2 years ahead
    of schedule
    Cost Management
    • The most difficult part of the project –
    period of Great Depression
    • It cost a total of $165 million - $49
    million to build the Hoover Dam
    • Unskilled labor paid $4/day and
    minimum wage cost was <$6/hr
    • Paid back over a period of 50 years to
    Federal Treasury by selling electricity
    Project Management
    • One of the biggest engineering project at that
    time - also the greatest testimony to functional
    organizations and old fashioned management
    control techniques
    • Active management was left in 4 hands: Henry
    J. Kaiser, Charles A. Shea, Felix Kahn and
    S.D. Bechtel
    Project Management
    Project Management
    • Frank Crowe (a.k.a Hurry Up) worked under
    Shea – acted as the man point between Board
    of Directors and the operations personnel
    • It was Shea’s responsibility to carry out the
    construction on time and budget
    • Each department was headed by a manager
    and held accountable for their work
    Project Management
    • Dam construction was divided into 3
    areas:
    * Diversion tunnels and penstocks
    * Concrete arched structure
    * Power plant
    Problems
    • Workers’ strike (August 1931) – triggered by
    deaths of many of the workers’ wives and
    children due to extreme heat and lack of
    sanitation in the campsite area
    • Huge dam size required a lot of cement and
    engineers predicted it would take 125 years to
    dry and cure
    • Heat generated in the chemical rxns in the
    drying process would physically alter the
    landscape
    Solutions to the Problem
    • Housing facilities were built, known as
    Boulder City
    • Giant cooling tower/plant built to cool the
    entire dam – pumped ice water (37oF) at 1000
    gal/min as the concrete was poured
    • With this approach, the dam was cooled in 20
    months
    FAQs
    • Height : 726.4 ft
    • Weight: 6.6 million tons
    • Total storage capacity : 30.5 million acre ft
    • Power generating capacity: 2.8 million kW
    • Has 17 generators
    • Part of a system that provides water to
    over 25 million people in Southwest United
    States

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