The Story of the Hoover Dam” explores the dam’s construction, the 1928 Boulder Canyon Project, and its role in producing ...

In the early part of the 20th century, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation began an ambitious project that entailed constructing a ...

The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant. The contract is awarded to Six Companies, a construction and engineering firm made up of some of ...

Thankfully, Nevada generates power in several different ways and does not rely solely on hydropower from the Hoover Dam. In fact, hydropower is the third-largest way the state generates ...

San Francisco was already a union town in the mid-thirties, and longshoremen in particular wielded power. In contrast, Hoover Dam's location beside the southern Nevada desert -- with the nearest ...

Private owners, state and local governments, and public utilities own and manage the overwhelming majority of U.S. dams. State governments regulate most dams, while the federal government oversees the ...

Take in views of Lake Mead, the Hoover Dam and the Colorado River on this ... views from the observation deck before descending to the Power Plant. Guides from the Bureau of Reclamation will ...

Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct ... which will do for Northern California what Herbert Hoover’s Boulder Dam does for Southern California, is ...

sending thousand-degree steam blasting through turbines that churn out more than 3,000 megawatts of electric power, 50 percent more than Hoover Dam. The plant's cooling system is struggling to ...

In the winter, when demand for power in those areas slackens ... their monetary and environmental costs. Quickly he cited Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee, and then he paused. Finally he said that ...

Arizona detectives are seeking tips from the public more than four decades after a 25-year-old heiress was found shot to death near the Hoover Dam on the border between Nevada and Arizona.

Hoover Dam Powerplant: Located 530 feet below Black Canyon's surface, this power plant is where you'll find the dam's 17 generators, plus a tunnel drilled in the 1930s and a platform that sits on ...