Andries van Dam

The intensive construction of dams and irrigation in the U.S. West has contributed to West Coast’s economic and urban development. The inexorable water projects in China also played an important role in nation building and economic success. To evaluate these water projects, it is crucial to consider their costs and benefits both economically and environmentally. Although many water projects have shown significant benefits, people have criticized them for…

The dam we are planning to build will not only help the environment it will slow down global warming and grow more crops for human consumption. This dam can also be used for irrigation purposes like growing crops for humans and animals alike. You can also use this water as clean drinking water. The salmon population will maintain similar to what was before because ninety-seven percent still survive. It will slow down global warming by not having us burn coal for energy creating greenhouse gases…

environmental activists. In it, self-appointed guardians of the Colorado River become so incensed by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam that they conspire to detonate the massive 710- foot concrete structure. Although the dam remains intact, the sentiment behind removing the dam has since resurfaced. Both Lake Powell, the reservoir formed by the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead, located 300 miles downstream, has been full since 1999. And the lack of water means the cities of the Southwest…

animal besides humans that can build a dam, the beaver. The beaver is a very exceptional mammal because it can create, modify, and control its habitat. Beavers typically inhabit the northern hemisphere, but have also been introduced in South America’s Tierra del Fuego (Cavendish). Beavers are the second largest rodents in the world and have many similar relatives such as the nutria (Cavendish). The main characteristic of a beaver’s habitat is its dam. A dam allows the beaver to control the…

18th largest dam in the entire world. Back then, the Hoover Dam was the largest structure of its time, standing seven-hundred and twenty-six feet tall with, “Enough concrete to build a road from New York to San Francisco,” (National Park Service 1). Due to its unprecedented size and the minute section of time spent to build it, this structure claimed numerous lives; despite that, this project offered 21,000 people the chance to avoid unemployment during the Great Depression. The Hoover Dam…

The Hoover Dam is one of the greatest megastructures in the world, for many reasons. This Dam spans the Colorado River in Black Canyon between Arizona and Nevada, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas Nevada. In the early 19 hundreds there were extreme flooding from the melting snow in the Rocky Mountains that had came down to the Colorado River. Because of that this is when they decided to construct a dam to control the water flow. Arthur Powell Davis, head of the U.S. Bureau of…

Engineering Feat: Hoover Dam One of the largest dams in the world, the hoover dam provides hydroelectric power thanks to the Colorado River and forms Lake Mead. This dam was completed in 1935 and has the world’s largest reservoir of water. This dam is an engineering feat due to its ability to control the Colorado River’s flooding problem, contain such high quantities of water, and provides water and electricity to Los Angeles and Southern California. This project also resulted in a new kind of…

The Hoover Dam was an engineering marvel of its time period. This project was one of the largest construction projects ever attempted in the U. S. history. The original purpose of the dam was for irrigation, water supply, flood control, and hydroelectric production. The dam project was interesting to study because of the history involved, the construction phase, and the different benefits to the country. During the early 1900’s, the U.S. bureau of Reclamation wanted to find a way to help…

Emergency Operations plans are used by communities across the nation in use by federal, state and local governments. There are three different types of EOP formats traditional function format, emergency support function and agency/ department focused function. Each community must decide which one is right for the hazards within their scope of capabilities. The Promulgation Statement/Letter, informs agencies of the intentions of action that a community intend to take these actions include:…

structures that could be used to block, redirect or control the natural flow of the river. The plans included the building of the Imperial dam and the Laguna dam. It was not planned by the Yuma project however the Hoover dam was built and it did coincidentally help with both the building and maintaining of the Imperial and Laguna dam. The Laguna dam much like the Hoover dam was beneficial not only by controlling the excess water flow but also in filtering more of the silt and debris from the…