HOOVER DAM

726 ft (221 m) high and 1,244 ft (379 m) long, on the Colorado River between Nev. and Ariz.; one of the world's largest dams. Built between 1931 and 1936 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the dam is named for President Herbert Hoover; from 1933 to 1947 it was known as Boulder Dam. A key unit on the Colorado, the dam is a major supplier of hydroelectric power and provides for flood control, river regulation, and improved navigation. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States; water is used to irrigate more than 650,000 acres (263,000 hectares) in S California and Arizona, and c.400,000 acres (162,000 hectares) in Mexico. Hoover Dam is part of Lake Mead National Recreation Area (see National Parks and Monuments, table). Boulder City, Nev., was built to house workers on the project.

See J. E. Stevens, Hoover Dam (1988).

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The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933
Book by Herbert Hoover; Macmillan, 1952
Subjects: Hoover, Herbert--1874-1964, Presidents--United States--Biography, United States--Politics And Government--1919-1933
...Sons, New York, 1937 ; The Foreign Policies of Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 , by William Starr Myers Charles Scribners Sons...Water Resources to Work, Water Storage The Colorado River Dam, The Grand Coulee Dam, The Central Valley of California, The...
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Herbert Hoover
Book by Amy Ruth; Lerner, 2004
Subjects: Hoover, Herbert--1874-1964--Juvenile Literature, Presidents--United States--Biography--Juvenile Literature
...to potect pnrks and wildlife. THE HOOVER DAM During the Great Depression, disputes...the river. Construction of the Hoover Dam began in 1931 about thirty miles...Truman changed the name back to Hoover Dam in 1947.) and wildlife. He protected...
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Herbert Hoover: American Quaker
Book by David Hinshaw; Farrar, Straus, 1950
Subjects: Hoover, Herbert--1874-1964
...arrangements were being made Hoover and the youngsters were carefully...the location of a hydraulic dam. As soon as the food was eaten...roll or carry boulders to the dam site and to put them in place. Hoover helped in all of this and at...
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Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Documentary History
Book by Timothy Walch, Dwight M. Miller; Greenwood Press, 1998
Subjects: Hoover, Herbert--1874-1964, Presidents--United States--Biography, Roosevelt, Franklin D--(Franklin Delano)--1882-1945, United States--Politics And Government--1929-1933--Sources, United States--Politics And Government--1933-1945--Sources
HERBERT HOOVER AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT President Herbert Hoover and President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt sit side by...Inauguration Day, March 4, 1933. Courtesy of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. HERBERT HOOVER AND FRANKLIN D...
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The Herbert Hoover Story
Book by Eugene Lyons; Human Events, 1959
Subjects: Hoover, Herbert--1874-1964, Presidents--United States--Biography
...look at the huge skeleton of the Hoover Dam upon which flesh was being put. If...when it appropriated funds for the "Hoover Dam." But early in the reign of Hoovers...forever. The very syllables of Hoover Dam seemed to upset him. One of his first...
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journal articles on: Hoover Dam  - 85 results

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Dam-Building Decisions
Journal article by Harvey Black; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, 2001
...dams--those at least 45 feet high, such as the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Itaipu Dam on the Parana. River at the Brazil--Paraguay border...of water and energy resources including global dam construction. It seeks to go beyond a simple cost...
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Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life
Journal article by Donald C. Jackson; Environmental History, Vol. 6, 2001
...attention to the Boulder Canyon Project/Hoover Dam (named after you-know-who) and the Muscles Shoals Project/Wilson Dam (which subsequently became the core...Valley Authority), the analysis of Hoovers complicated relationship with the...
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Rethinking Civil Rights Lawyering and Politics in the Era before Brown
Journal article by Kenneth W. Mack; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, 2005
Subjects: Brown v. Board of Education--347 U.S. 483 (1954), Civil rights--History, Constitutional interpretation--Evaluation, Constitutional law--Evaluation, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Liberalism--Laws, regulations and rules
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The River, the Delta, and the Sea
Journal article by Thomas R. Mcguire; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 45, 2003
...began to fill the reservoir behind Hoover Dam in 1935, the river continued more...Colorado received its own plumbing: Hoover Dam filled to capacity--twenty-five million...water created problems downstream, at Hoover Dam and below. As Joseph Stevens (1988...
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Water Wrongs: Why Can't We Get It Right the First Time?
Journal article by David Getches; Environmental Law, Vol. 34, 2004
Subjects: Water resource development--Laws, regulations and rules, Water resource management--Analysis, Water resources development--Laws, regulations and rules, Water use--History
...massive developments began with the Hoover Dam in the 1930s, one of the human-made...the same capacity and height as the Hoover Dam. (9) No sooner was Glen Canyon finished...George W. Gorum Cathy Murphy, Hoover Dam History: In Praise of Hoover Dam...
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Water, Power, and Tourism: Hoover Dam and the Making of the New West
Magazine article by Michael Duchemin; California History, Vol. 86, September 2009
Subjects: Concrete dams--Political aspects, Concrete dams--Social aspects, Dam construction--Political aspects, Dam construction--Social aspects, Dams--Design and construction, Dams--Political aspects, Dams--Social aspects, Hoover Dam, Arizona and Nevada--Political aspects, Hoover Dam, Arizona and Nevada--Social aspects, New Deal, 1933-1939--Analysis, Western United States--Political aspects, Western United States--Social aspects
Water, Power, and Tourism: Hoover Dam and the Making of the New West...1937 (1) Historians have compared Hoover Dam to the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol...provisions of water and power supplied by Hoover Dam contributed mightily to the conversion...
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Herbert Hoover - an Uncommon Man Brought Down by the Great Depression
Magazine article by Stephen Goode; World and I, Vol. 16, March 2001
Subjects: History--20th century AD, History--Analysis, Hoover, Herbert--Behavior
...another approach. "More major public works were started in Hoovers four years than in the previous thirty," writes historian...still in use and have become household names: Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam), the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and the San Francisco Bay...
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William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster
Magazine article by Donald C. Jackson, Jr. Norris Hundley; California History, Vol. 82, Fall 2004
Subjects: Dam failures--California, Dam failures--History, Dam safety--Laws, regulations and rules, Dams--California, Dams--Design and construction, Mulholland, William (Irish American engineer), Southern California
...because it involved the failure of a curved-gravity concrete dam, the design type then planned for the massive Hoover (Boulder Canyon) Dam on the Colorado River. The disaster prompted critics to urge reconsideration of that project--which was being...
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How to Fix Our Dam Problems: Thousands of Aging Dams Should Be Repaired or Destroyed, at a Cost of Billions. A Cap-and-Trade Policy Could Speed the Process and Help Pay the Bills
Magazine article by James G. Workman; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 24, Fall 2007
Subjects: Dam construction--Economic aspects, Dam safety, Dams--Design and construction, Dams--Economic aspects, Dams--Maintenance and repair, Dams--United States, Droughts--Economic aspects, Droughts--United States, Water shortages--Causes of, Water shortages--Economic aspects
...power, transport, and irrigation dam projects--think Shasta, Oroville...Reservoir, Glen Canyon, and Hoover--would mitigate their effects...dams on Earth, starting with Hoover. Its not clear which country...United States gains through dam consolidation, efficiencies...
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Water Vapor Almost Busts Dam
Magazine article by Brian Fortner; Popular Science, Vol. 262, March 2003
Subjects: Dams, Flood control, Technological planning, Water supply
...cavitation. This success leads the Bureau of Reclamation to retrofit aerators to two other large dams, Hoover and Blue Mesa. "It was a defining moment in dam design," says Burgi. "The world was watching how we were going to solve this problem." As it turns...
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How'd They Do That? Manmade Wonders Hoover Dam and Lake Mead Leave Visitors Awe-Struck and Full of Questions
Newspaper article by Kathy Rodeghier; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 12, 2006
...Howd They Do That? Manmade Wonders Hoover Dam and Lake Mead Leave Visitors Awe...dont get too close to the edge of Hoover Dam. From the highway it appears safe...oblivion. For the rest, visiting Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, which backs up 110...
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The Wider View
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 5, 2009
...two sides of a pounds sterling160million bridge at the Hoover Dam in America slowly take shape. The bridge will carry a...to carry the road. The bridge has become known as the Hoover Dam bypass, although it is officially called the Mike OCallaghan-Pat...
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Join Hugh Cornwell in the Studio to Enjoy His New Album; Music
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 6, 2008
...the release of his latest album, Hoover Dam. For starters, Blueprint, an accompanying...has been the decision to release Hoover Dam on free download, following in the...People do like the physical product." Hoover Dam was recorded at the end of last year...
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Editorials
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 11, 2007
...Editorials. Give people a break on water bills The DuPage Water Commission is finally going to open the gates on its Hoover Dam-size surplus. And as the excess revenue flows into DuPage County municipalities, there is hope for lower water bills...
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CITYSNAP; Las Vegas
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), May 30, 2009
...meets the eye. The vast concrete infrastructure of the Hoover Dam that appeared in the Transformers movie is only 45 minutes...away and there are many tours to it operating daily. The dam took five years to build and produces enough energy to...
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Hoover Dam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HOOVER DAM 726 ft (221 m) high and 1,244 ft (379...river regulation, and improved navigation. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead , the largest reservoir...000 acres (162,000 hectares) in Mexico. Hoover Dam is part of Lake Mead National Recreation...
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Boulder Dam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BOULDER DAM see Hoover Dam . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Glen Canyon Dam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...concrete dams (larger in bulk, though not in height, than Hoover Dam ). The dam, completed in 1963 and dedicated in 1966 after completion...tributaries and produces hydroelectricity (since 1964). The dam sharply reduced the seasonal flow of the Colorado downstream...
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Hoover, Herbert Clark
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...fostered trade associations, and gave his support to such engineering projects as the St. Lawrence Waterway and the Hoover Dam. Hoover gained great popular approval, and he easily won the Republican nomination for President in 1928 and defeated...
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All-American Canal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...SE Calif.; part of the federal irrigation system of the Hoover Dam. Built between 1934 and 1940 across the Colorado Desert...Inter-California Canal, which passes through Mexico. The Imperial Dam, NE of Yuma, Ariz., diverts water from the Colorado River...
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