Thursday, April 1, 2010

Cool dam, or hot dam? It's Oroville Dam maximum card/maxicard (USA)


Oroville Dam, the tallest dam in USA.
I've been to Hoover Dam, another impressive construction.

"Oroville Dam is the tallest dam in the United States and is within the top twenty dams in the world for dam height and volume of dam materials. It is an earth-fill dam, stands 770 feet tall, is 6,920 feet (2,109 m) long, and holds 3,537,577 acre-feet (4.364 km³) of water. Construction started in 1961 and was completed in 1968, at a cost of $187.8 million; however, as a result of the multi-purpose nature of the dam (designed to provide water supply, flood control, power generation, and fish and wildlife enhancement), the total costs were $563.8 million.

Over the past 12 years the dam has saved an estimated $1.2 billion in flood damage to the surrounding area. "
"It was not known until 1975, when a magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred near Oroville, that the dam sits on top of an active faultline. This caused serious questions to be asked regarding the Auburn Dam which was just beginning construction at the time and was never built as a result of the possible geologic risk."
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"Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. When completed in 1936, it was both the world's largest hydroelectric power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure. It was surpassed in both these respects by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. It is currently the world's 38th-largest hydroelectric generating station.[5]
This dam, located 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, is named after Herbert Hoover, who played an instrumental role in its construction, first as the Secretary of Commerce, and then later, as the President of the United States. Construction began in 1931, and was completed in 1936, a little more than two years ahead of schedule. The dam and the power plant are operated by the Bureau of Reclamation of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, Hoover Dam was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985.[4][6]
Lake Mead is the reservoir created by the dam, named after Elwood Mead, who oversaw the construction of the dam."

9 comments:

Christine H. said...

Imagine that! I have been to Oroville Dam and had no idea that it was bigger than other dams. Oroville is not quite out in the middle of nowhere, but almost. Thanks, I'm glad to know this. Wait a minute...are you sure this isn't April Fool's?

Dorincard said...

:) No April Fool's.

viridian said...

Thanks for your post. I'm getting a beter idea of what a maxi card is.

Postcardy said...

That's a good looking stamp and card. I had never heard of that dam before. I am surprised that the fault line wasn't known earlier.

Mary said...

I've been to both dams - they are engineering marvels, really. BTW, what is a maxi card?

Irene said...

Wow What a lot of information from a postcard. happy PFF

Terry said...

Howdy
Happy PFF to you .
I had never heard of this place before .
Thank you for sharing all the information !!!!
I love all the fabulous things we get to learn from one another on PFF :)
Have a great weekend.
Happy Trails

Dorincard said...

Thanks everybody for visiting and commenting! :)

Paul van Yperen said...

Happy PFF. Fascinating those dams. Like you I've visited the Hoover Dam, but did never see the Oroville Dam before. Greetings from AmsterDam.

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