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Workers going to work pass those coming off the job on Grand Coulee Dam
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Two workmen appear to be pressure washing the top of a pour of concrete.
TRASH RACKS (HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES); Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Trash Racks on the upstream side of Grand Coulee Dam. The trash racks were to keep floating debris from entering the penstocks and damaging the turbines.
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The preparation of the southern end of the dam site has had most of the loose rock removed, and the coffer dam complete. The work of removing soil and loose rock on the north end of the dam was still under way.
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The official opening of the contractor’s railroad was on July 29, 1935. Much of the work had been completed several months earlier. Governor Clarence D. Martin was the official engineer for the first official trip.
The lock is a single lift type, 86 feet wide and 683 feet long, with a 15-foot minimum depth over the sills. The vertical lifts average 75 feet. The lock is located on the Washington side of the Columbia River.
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
The initial level of concrete has been poured across the entire distance of the bottom of the dam. The Columbia is flowing over the central portion of the dam.