Hoover Dam Bypass is among the largest and toughest engineering feats that will revolutionised the Civil engineering when completed. Hoover Dam Bypas is the connection between two states of US. Crawling closer inch by inch, 900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, the two faces of a $160 million bridge over at the Hoover Dam slowly form.
The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the constriction of the old road, which can be seen twisting and nosing around and across the dam itself. When concluded, it will provide a new connection between the states of Nevada and Arizona.
In an incredible effort of engineering, the road will be backed on the two massive
concrete arches, which jut out of the rock face. The arches are made up of 53 individual parts each 24 feet long, which have been cast on-site and are being airlifted into place using an ad-libbed high-wire crane strung between temporary steel pylons. The arches will eventually measure more than 1,000 feet across. Now, the structure looks like a traditional suspension bridge. But once the arches are complete, the suspending cables on each side will be removed. Extra vertical columns will then be established on the arches to bear the road. the bridge has become known as the Hoover Dam bypass, although it is officially called . The Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, after a former governor of Nevada and an American Football player from Arizona who linked the US Army and was killed In Afghanistan.
Work on the bridge started in 2005 and should complete next year. An estimated 17,000 cars and trucks will cross it every day. The dam was started in 1931 and used enough pavement to build a road from New York to San Francisco. The stretch of water it created, Lake Mead, is 110 miles long and took six years to fill. The original road was unfolded at the same time as the famous dam in 1936. An extra note: The top of the white band of rock in Lake Mead is the old waterline prior to the drouth and development in the Las Vegas area.
It is over 100 feet above the current water level...
Have a look at the mighty Hoover Dam Bypas pictures
The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the constriction of the old road, which can be seen twisting and nosing around and across the dam itself. When concluded, it will provide a new connection between the states of Nevada and Arizona.
In an incredible effort of engineering, the road will be backed on the two massive
concrete arches, which jut out of the rock face. The arches are made up of 53 individual parts each 24 feet long, which have been cast on-site and are being airlifted into place using an ad-libbed high-wire crane strung between temporary steel pylons. The arches will eventually measure more than 1,000 feet across. Now, the structure looks like a traditional suspension bridge. But once the arches are complete, the suspending cables on each side will be removed. Extra vertical columns will then be established on the arches to bear the road. the bridge has become known as the Hoover Dam bypass, although it is officially called . The Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, after a former governor of Nevada and an American Football player from Arizona who linked the US Army and was killed In Afghanistan.
Work on the bridge started in 2005 and should complete next year. An estimated 17,000 cars and trucks will cross it every day. The dam was started in 1931 and used enough pavement to build a road from New York to San Francisco. The stretch of water it created, Lake Mead, is 110 miles long and took six years to fill. The original road was unfolded at the same time as the famous dam in 1936. An extra note: The top of the white band of rock in Lake Mead is the old waterline prior to the drouth and development in the Las Vegas area.
It is over 100 feet above the current water level...
Have a look at the mighty Hoover Dam Bypas pictures
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