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Boulder Dam

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Boulder Dam: see Hoover Dam 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.
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Hoover Dam

 formerly Boulder Dam

Highest concrete arch dam in the U.S., built on the Colorado River at the Arizona-Nevada border. It impounds Lake Mead. The dam, completed in 1936, is used for flood and silt control, electric power, irrigation, and domestic and industrial water supplies. It is 726 ft (221 m) high and 1,244 ft (379 m) long (along the crest), has a power capacity of 1,345 megawatts, and a volume of 4.4 million cu yd (3.36 million cu m).
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Boulder City Councilman Duncan McCoy should have been allowed to vote in July on a bailout of the Boulder Dam Hotel, the Nevada Commission on Ethics has ruled.
Treated water as an asset by Jean Reid Norman / Las Vegas Sun
ANSWERS QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 An olive branch; 2 Hansom (Joseph Hansom - the Hansom cab); 3 The Danube; 4 Walter Matthau; 5 The Boulder Dam.
TIME OUT: QUIZ CHALLENGE by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
They're pegged to water levels in Lake Mead, and that Boulder Dam reservoir remains eerily low in spite of a couple of slightly wetter summers.
RESHUFFLE WEST'S WATER CARDS? NICE TRY, JOHN .. by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
 
 
 
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