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In order to prevent a flood from ever overcoming the dam's capacity, spillway tunnels 650 feet long and 170 feet deep were excavated to lead flood waters into the concrete-lined diversion tunnels and past the dam. These "Glory Holes" were paved with concrete during the summer of 1933. One year after the first bucket of concrete was emptied into a form, the second millionth yard was poured. To the left of the sign stand superintendent Frank Crowe, assistant superintendent Bernard F. "Woody" Williams, and Bureau of Reclamation engineer Walker Young. To the right of the sign are Charles A. Shea, Henry W. Morrison, and Steve Bechtel of Six Companies, and John C. Page, office engineer for the Bureau. |
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Show "I went to the Arizona spillway to put up construction steel. That was really an endurance test there, on that hot steel, driving rivets. You had to wear four or five thicknesses of burlap sack to keep from risking your eye when you leaned against iron to drive rivets. Inside of the drum gates was really, truly an endurance test. You had the heat from the natural heat outside, and you had a forge going in there healing rivets, and then you had the hot rivets and everything. And you didn't stop and have coffee breaks like you do now."68 - Joe Kine "I started down at the low mix, oiling rollers on the conveyors that took care of the sand and gravel. Then they transferred me up to the high mix. They had scales up there that you could set whatever you needed, for sand, for gravel, and cement... The railroad trains came in on top of the big bins and they dumped sand in the hopper. They had different kinds of gravel, from pea gravel clear up to nine-inch, what they called the cobble... The sand, gravel, and everything like that [went] down into the mixer below, down on the mixing floor. It was all electric, automatic. "Cement trains would come in there full [of cement], loose, in boxcars. They would pump this cement out of these boxcars into different blending silos. It was all mixed up in order that they got the same mix all the way through the whole dam. "69 - Tex Nunley In order to prevent a flood from ever overcoming the dam's capacity, spillway tunnels 650 feet long and 170 feet deep were excavated to lead flood waters into the concrete-lined diversion tunnels and past the dam. These "Glory Holes" were paved with concrete during the summer of 1933. One year after the first bucket of concrete was emptied into a form, the second millionth yard was poured. To the left of the sign stand superintendent Frank Crowe, assistant superintendent Bernard F. "Woody" Williams, and Bureau of Reclamation engineer Walker Young. To the right of the sign are Charles A. Shea, Henry W. Morrison, and Steve Bechtel of Six Companies, and John C. Page, office engineer for the Bureau. |
