Record Details

Concrete Placement

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Concrete Placement
Description Concrete block on east abutment, showing grouting and drainage tunnel and upstream fillet. Workers pouring foundations of the Grand Coulee Dam made blockouts for a series of access, drainage, and grouting tunnels running along the bottom of the Grand Coulee Dam. Shown here are the concrete forms used to create those outlet tunnels.
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown
Creator United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Tunnels--Design and Construction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete--Dewatering--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete--Expansion and contraction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete dams--Foundations--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete--Formwork--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Concrete; Dam construction United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type photographs
Identifier 40b6v5p279.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1608
Date 4/23/1937 2008
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Source Columbia Basin Project History (Vol. V, Page 279)-Cage 40, Box 6 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.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 Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. While 24 bit 150 PPI JPEG also created and added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries.
Language English

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