The Great Hoover Dam

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[The Great Hoover Dam]
A San Andreas News article

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Author: Altria Pendragon
Date: January 9th,2019
Tags: Countryside, Los Santos, Facility

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Dam is a construction that is built to withstand the rate of water into reservoirs, lakes, or recreational areas. Often dams are also used to drain water to a hydroelectric power plant. Most dams also have a section called sluice to gradually or unwanted dispose of unwanted water. There are so many dams that are created around the world in order to bring the good benefits for their country. Today this article will discuss about one of the most famous dam in San Andreas, The Hoover Dam.

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Hoover Dam
(Captured By : Altria Pendragon)
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Hoover Dam is one of the most famous hydro facilities in the world. Although it doesn’t have a new world record with impressive size and history in the world of construction, Hoover Dam is an example of how a project is impossible from a technical point of view can become a reality. The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch built on the north of the Los Santos city, The exact location is in Tierra Robada Countryside .
The Hoover Dam was built in about five years, and costed 49 million dollars, adjusting the inflation, the amount goes tround 2.6 billion dollars, with dimensions of wall length of 379 meters, height of 221 meters, and thickness of 200 meters and 15 meters at the base. More than 2 million cubic meters of concrete have used for this project and nearly 5 thousand workers from various countries have worked on this large project.

The Hoover Dam in 1933
(Photo taken by one of the labors in countryside)
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This photo was taken from one of the village people who worked as one of the builder in development of Hoover Dam. Based on his information regarding the construction of dam, where the first brick was laid in 1931. Behind the splendor of the Dam, there are workers who face a number of challenges relating to the large size of the facilities and the harsh conditions in the field. At that time, in the 30s, there were not many technological inventions to facilitate the making of the Hoover Dam. Therefore the labor are casting the framework of the hoover dam with the form of blocks. The block are equipped with a height of 1.5m, but a different size and staggered. Then they invented a tube system which is used to help the concrete to go up the tube. For the construction of this Dam, workers had to use a rope which is lifted by human power because of the lack of cranes at that time. Behind the Hoover dam there is a lake called Mead. This lake stretches 180 kilometers from the wall, and has an area of 640 square kilometers and the storage volume of the reservoir is 35 cubic kilometers.

Power Plant of the dam
(Captured by : Altria Pendragon)
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The Water from the ponds is not only used for irrigating agricultural land and household needs, but also for hydropower plants at the bottom of the dam and the total electricity capacity produced is 2,080 megawatts.

Credits to the village people who kindly wanted to share this information​

 

[Haise Lyez Drucci]

Nice article. I like it.

 

[Montbard]

Damn that dam is a Damn

 

[Latz]

Nice one, I didn't knew about those things.