hoover dam

     

Hoover Dam, also known as Bouler Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. When completed in 1935, it was both the world's largest electric power producing facility and the world's largest concrete structure. It was surpassed in both respects by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. It is currently the world's 34th largest hydroelectric generating station.

Trivia about hoover dam

  • Located on the borders of Arizona & Nevada, this dam was finished in 1936 & got "presidential" in 1947
  • This dam at the Arizona-Nevada border is 726 feet high
  • When completed in 1936, it was the world's tallest dam
  • Over 700 feet high, this dam is the largest of its type in the United States
  • In 1996's "Beavis And Butt-Head Do America", the title heroes manage to open the floodgates of this dam
  • The 1930s construction of this across Black Canyon brought thousands of workers (& power) to Vegas
  • Erected in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, its power plant can supply 4 billion kilowatt-hours a year
  • Boulder City, Nevada was built to house the workers who constructed the 1930s structure now called this
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) In 1996 a 505 X 255-foot flag decorated this structure seen here in the West
  • In 1936 Los Angeles started receiving its electricity from generators at this facility

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