[PDF] The Grand Coulee Dam Area eBook

Author : Paul C. Pitzer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
ISBN : 9780874221107

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In the capable hands of Paul Pitzer, the fight for Grand Coulee Dam and the story of its construction is a vital, animated saga of people striving for dazzling goals and then working to build something spectacular. These visionaries accomplished their objective against the backdrop of the worst economic depression in the nation's history. The dam and the extensive irrigation network it supports stand today as a monument to their dreams and labors.

Author : Murray Morgan
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Dam failures
ISBN :

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The story of the Grand Coulee Dam and a near tragedy on March 14, 1952 when the Grand Coulee began to fail. At the time the book was published, it was the largest concrete dam in the world.

Author : Ray Bottenberg
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738556123

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Washington's Grand Coulee is an ice-age channel that carried the Columbia River when ice dammed its main course. Grand Coulee was long recognized as an ideal place to store Columbia River water to irrigate the arid but fertile Columbia Basin. A dam was proposed as early as 1903, but opposition by Spokane private power interests and the cost of the dam delayed design and construction until the administration of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, a public power advocate, used the Grand Coulee Dam project to help put the unemployed to work. The result was the world's largest man-made structure, and also the world's largest power plant, costing more than $163 million and the lives of at least 72 workers. The dam powered production of aluminum, atomic weapons, shipbuilding, and much more, contributing mightily to America's victory in World War II. Postwar developments provided irrigation for 700,000 acres of farmland.

Author : L. Vaughn Downs
Publisher : ASCE Publications
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780784473740

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The Mightiest of Them All: Memories of Grand Coulee Dam presents the experiences of L. Vaughn Downs from the time he started working on the dam when it was in the design stage, through the construction period and into many years of actual dam operation and maintenance. He provides glimpses into the personalities connected with the project and explains the many techniques and pieces of equipment that were developed or improved as the dam was built. Downs also devotes considerable attention to problems they encountered and the solutions developed in the hope that others will learn from these situations. This revised edition brings the story up to the current period with an examination of the upkeep and condition of the dam after 50 years, and its prospects for the future. Engineers, architects, and interested general readers will feel the thrill of this extraordinary dam, as the informative text and bounty of photographs illustrate various stages of construction and the dramatic rates of progress attained.