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Trash Rack Structures

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Trash Rack Structures
Description Considerable experimentation was necessary in designing the system for ice prevention on the trash rack structures. To the best of my knowledge compressed air as a means of ice prevention was first installed at Koekuk Dam on the Mississippi River, for investigations to determine its feasibility." A compressed-air system was also installed at the Magnitogorsk Dam in Russia to relieve the 3,300 foot crest of the dam of tremendous pressure from ice sometimes 5 1/2 feet thick." When concrete...
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown
Creator Clifford R. Koester
Subject Electric power--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Hydroelectric power plants--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete dams--Foundations--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Penstocks--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam Hydroelectric power; Penstocks--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam Plans
Type Photograph
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Identifier 709b1v3p252.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/koester,1218
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Source A History of the Columbia Basin Project (Vol. 3, Page 252)-Cage 709: Clifford R. Koester Papers, 1927-1972: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg709.htm
Rights To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm , or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691. For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Format Original photographic prints were scanned at 24 bit 3000 pixels by the long side for master TIFF files on an Plustek OpticBook 3600 Plus. Also, 24 bit 150 PPI JPEGs were created with the OpticBook 3600 Plus and added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries
Language English
Date 2008

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