2019年9月4日 · In the 1950s and 1960s, dams were crucial to governmental campaigns for development, progress, and modernity in many world regions. This article focuses on the local aspects of a particular...

1960. California voters approve the Burns-Porter Act to finance construction of the State Water Project. Whale Rock Dam, located near San Luis Obispo, is completed to meet the county's water needs. It was the first major dam designed and constructed by DWR. 1961. On January 1, William E. Warne is appointed Director. Warne serves until December ...

2019年9月5日 · In the 1950s and 1960s, dams were crucial to governmental campaigns for development, progress, and modernity in many world regions. This article focuses on the local aspects of a particular development scheme, namely, the construction of the Mequinenza Dam in Spain (1955–1964).

On June 16, 1960, at a formal gathering attended by a few dignitaries, Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton released the first 12 cubic yards of concrete at the toe of the dam. The dam was topped out on September 13, 1963, bringing the height of the dam to a towering 710 feet, just a few feet shy of Hoover Dam.

In the 1950s and 1960s, dams were crucial to governmental campaigns for development, progress, and modernity in many world regions. This article focuses on the local aspects of a particular development scheme, namely, the construction of …

1983年10月1日 · This revealed the pre-eminence of the North American continent in terms of dam construction and the massive dam-building activity which occurred world-wide during the 1960s. In the current paper attention is focused on large dam construction within the USA from the early 19th century to 1977.

The era of large-scale hydroelectric dam building spanned roughly four decades, from the 1930s through the 1960s. Symbolically, the era commenced with Hoover Dam’s dedication in 1935. Hoover, however, was a culmination of larger technological and political changes.

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The rich and controversial social and political history of Glen Canyon Dam began with the Colorado River Storage Project Act of 1956. CRSP authorized construction of the Glen Canyon Dam as one of four major storage reservoirs along the Colorado River and its tributaries.

The Aswan Dam, or Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. When it was completed, it was the tallest earthen dam in the world, surpassing the Chatuge Dam in the United States. [2]