Drainage Gallery
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Title |
Drainage Gallery |
Title Caption |
Looking toward west side of block 40. Drainage and grouting gallery at elevation 880, and the 900 elevation galleries, bents for "1024" trestle to the left, and tie-in to cell in cluster "D" of west cofferdam. |
Description |
Shown her is the drainage and grouting gallery underneath the high placing trestle. In addition to heating and cooling the galleries provided access to grouting ports that workers used to pressure grout the individual cells of the dam together to create a monolithic structure. |
Date Original |
1936-08-28 |
Author |
United States. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Reclamation.; photographer unknown |
Library of Congress Subject Headings |
Construction workers--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete construction--Joints--Design and construction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete dams--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--Formwork--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete--Reinforcing bars--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete--Shrinkage--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam |
TGM Subject |
Civil engineering; Concrete; Construction employees |
Type |
Image |
Genre |
Photographs |
Geographic Area |
United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site; United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam |
Identifier |
cg040b05v4p276.jpg |
Publisher |
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/ |
Source |
Is found in A History of the Columbia Basin Project (vol. 4, pg. 276), Cage 40, Frank A. Banks Papers https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg40.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes |
No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was created by the United States government. |
Digitization |
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. |
Notes |
Part of Western Waters Digital Library, http://westernwaters.org/ |
Language |
English |
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