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The Hoover Dam Bypass project was completed within budget at a cost of $240 million; the bridge portion cost $114 million. [ 4 ] The bridge was the first concrete-steel composite deck arch bridge built in the United States, [ 5 ] and incorporates the widest concrete arch in the Western Hemisphere.
The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction, with 7 million tourists a year. [7] The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.
State Route 93 Temporary (SR 93T or SR 93X) is an unsigned 2.13-mile (3.43 km) long state highway near the Hoover Dam in Mohave County. [2] The route was originally part of the US 93 segment that travelled over Hoover Dam. It was redesignated as SR 93X on January 1, 2011, following the completion of the Hoover Dam Bypass.
A highway segment opened on October 19, 2010, in the area of Hoover Dam; [18] the Hoover Dam Bypass replaces a segment of US 93 over the dam that had been closed to truck traffic due to security concerns since the September 11 attacks in 2001. [19] The bypass crosses the Colorado River on a bridge downstream of the dam.
It was announced that because of Hoover's passion towards the project, the dam would be named after him. As construction began in 1931, so did the Great Depression. Workers flocked to Boulder City ...
English: Aerial view of the Hoover Dam; Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge shortly before opening. Date: 12 August 2010: Source: Own work: Author: Dsimic:
Hoover Dam and bypass bridge near Boulder City, Nevada. Lake Mead, formed by the 726-foot (221 m)-high Hoover Dam about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, is the largest reservoir in the United States with a full capacity of 28,945,000 acre-feet (35.703 km 3) and a water surface of nearly 250 square miles (650 km 2). However, the ...
November 11, 2009, was an ordinary day for two construction workers on a highway near the historic Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona. That is, until something out of the ordinary ...