Scenic View of the Hoover Dam is a photograph by Cecelia Helwig which was uploaded on July 13th, 2013.
Scenic View of the Hoover Dam
Scenic view of the Hoover Dam and towers surrounding the area. ... more
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Scenic View of the Hoover Dam
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Cecelia Helwig
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Photograph - Photography
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Scenic view of the Hoover Dam and towers surrounding the area.
The dam itself is a massive curved wall, 660 feet thick at the bottom, tapering to 45 feet where a road crosses it at the top. It towers 726 feet above bedrock (about the height of a 60-story skyscraper) and acts as a plug between the canyon walls to hold back up to 9.2 trillion gallons of water in Lake Mead, the reservoir created by its construction. Four concrete intake towers on the lake side drop the water down about 600 feet to drive turbines and create power, after which the water spills out into the river and continues south.
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July 13th, 2013
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