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Engineer recruitment program--early construction at Dworshak

University of Idaho Digital Collections

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Title Engineer recruitment program--early construction at Dworshak
Creator United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Date 1965
Description Fifty-foot high, four decked jumbo drill rig that will be used to bore the diversion tunnel at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Dworshak Dam on the North For Clearwater River. Thirty air-driven "Swedish ladder drills" will be distributed along the face of the mobile drill rig and will be advanced forward yard by yard as the tunnel bore is pushed ahead. The schedule calls for the thirty borings across the face of the tunnel to be loaded with explosives, the drill frame pulled back out of the...
Subject Dams Idaho;
Coverage United States--Idaho--Clearwater County--Ahsahka Ahsahka
Source PG 94, Box 1, Engineer Recruitment Program, 0 13
Publisher University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/ University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives
Relation Columbia River Basin Project Collection http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/crbp/
Language eng
Type Image;StillImage
Format image/jpg
Rights Material produced by the United States Army Corp of Engineers. In Public Domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Identifier http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/crbproj/id/1230

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