| Show INTE interesting RE STING FACTS ABOUT BOULDER DANI DAM ARE AKE TOLD the average reader of the newspapers is aware that boulder darn dam is the largest in the world and that it is not situated in boulder canyon at all but in black canyon a few miles below belona the canyon for which it is named beyond that epst of us know lit little tle of other interesting facts concerning this great project here are arc a few facts Wp to ponder onder boulder dam rises feet above bedrock and will ill raise the waters of the colorado river feet above its form former er level the thickness of boulder darn dam at its base is feet and at the top 43 45 feet the elevation of the high water line is 1229 feet above sea level the power plant will generate horsepower this is twice as much electric energy as is ig generated by the plants at niagara falls on the american side and at muscle shoals combined this huge structure will create the largest artificial arti fical lake in the world the lake will be miles long and eight miles wide it will have a shore line miles long the cost of constructing boulder dam and the huge powerhouse below it is of this amount the six companies earned projects associated with the dam will cost maids of concrete was used in construction of the dam which is enough to have built bu ailt a standard highway across the entire continent |
