WSP03805

• File Number: 8220.200.05.J
• Description: Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1949
• Author: USDOI/BOR
• Title: Boulder Canyon Project Final Reports: Part VII/ Bulletin 3 - Cooling of Concrete Dams
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER X-cOMMENTS ON THE DESIGN AND OPERATION
OF A COOLING SYS1EM-Gontinued

MODIFICATIONS OF HOOVER DAM PROCEDURE USED IN
LATER DAMS
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119. Hoover Dam procedurenn___hu__________________nn_______ 195
120. Modifications in contraction joints____nnnnnnn____________ 196
121. Modifications in cooling pipe iDstallations___________,_______~_____ 196
122. Modifica.tions in first-sta.ge cooling_ u __ _ n_ _____ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ __ _ __ 197
123. Modifications in second~sta.ge cooling:: ___ ___ _ __ ___ _ ___ _ _. __ ~ _ _ __ _ 197

COOUNG OF CERTAIN CONCRETE DAMS BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS

124. List of references__~_______________________________'____________ 197

CHAPTER XI-cOOLING EXPERiENCES AT HOOVER
DAM THROUGH 1947

125. Use of research measurements_ _ ____ _ _u ___ ____ ____~_ __ _ ___ _ __ __ 201
126. Resista.nce thermometers~___ ___ ___ _ ____ _ __ __ _ _ ____ _ _ __ _ _ __ ___ _ _ 201
127. Average tempera.ture rise in the dam____________________________ 203
128. Cooling status as of December 1,1933______________.:.____________ 206
129. Cooling status as of December 1, 1934___________________________ 211
130, Plugged cooling coils__________________________________________ 211
131. Exposure temperatures_ _ _ __ __ _ __ ___ ___ ___ __ _ ___ __ _ _ ___ _ __ __ _ __ 224
132. Founda.tion temperatures_ _ _ ___ ____ _ ___ _ __ _ __ ___ ___ _ __ ____ ___ __ 230
133. Temperature distribution in 1946_______________________________ 232
134. Surnrnary____________________________________________________ 232