Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant Tour Part 3

These are a series of video clips that I took when some friends of mine and I visited the Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant back on December 28, 2008. Hoover Dam is located at Lake Mead at the Arizona and Nevada State line and just East of Las Vegas on US Highway 93. The highway goes over the dam, but a by pass bridge is being built across the Colorado River just down stream from the dam due to be completed in September of 2009. For more info about the bridge, go to www.hooverdambypass.org Video part 1 mainly shows the outside area of the dam as viewed from the visitor center observation area and from the top of the dam and part 2 are video clips are scenes taken inside some of the inner passage way tunnels and also inside one of the big main 650 feet long and 75 feet high generator halls with some good views of the water powered turbine generator units. Additional information about Hoover Dam and Lake Mead THE DAM Type: Arch gravity Height: 726.4 feet (221.3 meters) Crest (Top) length: 1244 feet (379.2 meters) Crest (Top) width: 45 feet (13.7 meters) Base Width or thickness at bottom: 660 feet (201.2 meters) Volume of concrete: 3.25 million cubic yards (2.6 million cubicmeters) THE POWERPLANT Commercial generating units: 17 Station service units (To run dam and power plant) 2 Nameplate capacity: 2080 megawatts (Including station service) Length of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 650 feet (198 meters) Width of each generator …