28 January 2008

Hoover Dam - Near Las Vegas

On one of our days in Las Vegas we drove out to Hoover dam. It is a massive dam in the colorado river and on the border between Nevada and Arizona. We did the tour which takes you down into the guts to look at the hydro-electric portions as well as the diversion tunnels used when building the dam. It was all very large and impressive. We also stopped on the way back and had a very nice unusually healthy lunch in Boulder city, built to house the dam builders originally.


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The wall, very thick at the bottom


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7-8 of the 14-16 turbines/generators. The dam was actually built to contain flood waters and hold irrigation water rather then produce electricity.


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The bottom of the dam where the water comes through the turbines.


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One of the tunnels made for the initial diversion of the Colorado river - massive.


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An intake tower and a small view of Lake Mead - the lake created from the damming.



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