HOOVER DAM AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

HOOVER DAM AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE



Hoover Dam, once in the past known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border ends between the United States of Nevada and Arizona. construction span of hoover dam is 5 years ( 1931 - 1936) during the Great Depression of this dam was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by  Franklin.D(president). Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort including thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. The dam was contentious named after President Herbert Hoover.

Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and besides Boulder Canyon had been carryout for their budding to support a dam that would control floods, providing irrigation water and  for producing hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress approved the project. The winning bid in building the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which  starts construction of the dam in early 1931. Such a huge concrete structure had not ever been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The sultry summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented  some sort of difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies revolve over the dam to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than 2 years ahead of schedule.

Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the biggest reservoir in the United States by volume. The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed on the basis workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators used in providing power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is termed to be a on of the major tourist attraction; nearly a million of people tour the dam each year. The heavily travelled U.S. 93 ran along the dam's crest until October 2010.