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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Dam in Clark County, Nevada, and Mohave County, Arizona, US For other uses, see Hoover Dam (disambiguation). "Boulder Dam" redirects here. For other uses, see Boulder Dam (disambiguation). Dam in Arizona, U.S. Hoover Dam Hoover Dam by Ansel Adams, 1941 Official name Hoover Dam Location ...
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 ...
Matthew Wright's armored vehicle used to block the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge near the Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border On June 15, 2018, Matthew Phillip Wright of Henderson , Nevada, was arrested on terrorism and other charges for driving an armored truck, [ 5 ] containing an AR-15 and handgun, to the Hoover Dam and ...
Edison's company nearly built a dam at the same site 30 years before; One early plan was to blast rock from the canyon walls; A father and a son died working on the Hoover Dam; A deadly disaster in California nearly derailed the Hoover Dam; The U.S. broke labor laws to build the Hoover Dam; The Hoover Dam destroyed a town
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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 ...
As early as the 1960s, officials identified the US 93 route over Hoover Dam to be dangerous and inadequate for projected traffic volumes. From 1998 to 2001, officials from Arizona, Nevada, and several federal government agencies collaborated to determine the best routing for an alternative river crossing.
The largest dam in Washington, in terms of structural volume, reservoir capacity, and electricity production, is the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. It is the largest power station in the United States with a nameplate capacity of 6,809 megawatts and one of the largest concrete structures in the world. [ 3 ]