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noun - a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada
HOOVER DAM - Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It ...
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In 1936 Los Angeles started receiving its electricity from generators at this facility |
Erected in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, its power plant can supply 4 billion kilowatt-hours a year |
Over 700 feet high, this dam is the largest of its type in the United States |
When completed in 1936, it was the world's tallest dam |
In 1996's "Beavis And Butt-Head Do America", the title heroes manage to open the floodgates of this dam |
From 1936 to 1987, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power helped operate this facility in another state |
Located on the borders of Arizona & Nevada, this dam was finished in 1936 & got "presidential" in 1947 |
Boulder City, Nevada was built to house the workers who constructed the 1930s structure now called this |
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Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. * Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. * Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened. |