Nick Long's List: Hoover Dam / TVA

• General Information

                                                        

  Structural Type:	Curved gravity dam
  Function / usage:	Hydroelectricity plant
  Built:	1931  - 1936
  Status:	in use

      

  Geographic Information & Related Structures

                                                  

  Location:	Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada, USA, North America
  Impounds	Colorado River
  Near	Hoover Dam Bypass-Colorado River Bridge (2010)
  Coordinates:	36° 0' 56" N    114° 44' 17" W
• cost of construction     United States dollar 31 000 000
• height  221 m            retained water volume  45 000 000 000 m³            crest length  366 m            base thickness  201 m
• arch    reinforced concrete

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• The Tennessee Valley Authority is the nation's largest public power provider and a corporation of the U.S. government.
• TVA was established by Congress in 1933
• TVA’s power service territory includes most of Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia, covering 80,000 square miles and serving more than 9 million people. TVA sells electricity to 155 power distributor customers and 56 directly served industries and federal facilities.
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the TVA Act on May 18, 1933
• From the start, TVA established a unique problem-solving approach to fulfilling its mission: integrated resource management. Each issue TVA faced — whether it was power production, navigation, flood control, malaria prevention, reforestation, or erosion control — was studied in its b
• roadest context. TVA weighed each issue in relation to the whole picture.

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