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View upstream from Hoover Dam, October 2021, during the Southwestern North American megadrought. The changes in water flow and use caused by Hoover Dam's construction and operation have had a large impact on the Colorado River Delta. [124] The construction of the dam has been implicated in causing the decline of this estuarine ecosystem. [124]
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 ...
The 2018 novel Lords of St. Thomas, by Jackson Ellis, tells the story of the last family to vacate the flooded town of St. Thomas in 1938, following construction of the Hoover Dam and creation of Lake Mead. [63] Lake Mead, Hoover Dam, and the wrecked B-29 play a large role in the setting of the video game Fallout: New Vegas. [64]
Six Companies, Inc. was a joint venture of construction companies that was formed to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona. [1]They later built Parker Dam, a portion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the Colorado River Aqueduct across the Mojave and Colorado Deserts to urban Southern California, and many other large projects.
The Hoover Dam construction project and Frank Crowe's role (portrayed by actor Jay Benedict) was dramatised in an episode of the BBC's 2003 docudrama television miniseries Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. [4] The project and Frank Crowe's role was also dramatized in The History Channel's series America: The Story of Us in episode 9 ...
Hoover Dam, in Blendon Township, near Westerville, Ohio, dams the Big Walnut Creek to form the Hoover Memorial Reservoir. This reservoir is a major water source for the city of Columbus, Ohio . It holds 20.8 billion US gallons (79,000,000 m 3 ) of water and has a surface area of 3,272 acres (13.24 km 2 ), or about five square miles.
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 ...
In March 2001, the Federal Highway Administration selected the route, which crosses the Colorado River approximately 1,500 feet (460 m) downstream of Hoover Dam. Construction of the bridge approaches began in 2003, and construction of the bridge itself began in February 2005.