Toured it a few years ago and it is one impressive piece of engineering.?ÿ Spent an hour today researching its conception, construction and operational history.?ÿ Found an interesting surveying factoid:
"There were 112 deaths reported as associated with the construction of the dam.?ÿ The first was surveyor John Gregory ("J.G.") Tierney who drowned on December 20, 1922, in a flash flood, while looking for an ideal spot for the dam.?ÿThe official list's final death occurred on December 20, 1935, when Patrick Tierney, electrician's helper and the son of J.G. Tierney, fell from one of the two Arizona-side intake towers."
What are the odds of that??ÿ First to die, last to die, father and son.
And on the same date...
The THIRTEENTH anniversary
and it's not called the Tierney Dam???ÿ
It's a Dam shame...
What are they going to do now that Boulder Dam has nothing to do??ÿ
What are they going to do now that Boulder Dam has nothing to do??ÿ
Run in there, scrub it up and give it a paint job before the water rises (maybe).
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That would ensure a moisture event of Biblical proportions to occur almost immediately across the entire drainage area.
Only for about 12 years, Congress "officially" restored it to HOOVER DAM in 1947.?ÿ
you have the same obsessive compulsive disorder as me? ?????ÿ
