The story of Hoover Dam
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- National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 37058 / Local Identifier 115.31 - The story of Hoover Dam - Department of the Interior. Bureau of Reclamation. (05/18/1981 - ). Explains the overwhelming need to control and regulate the raging waters of the Colorado River; the 1928 passage of the Boulder Canyon Project authorizing construction of the Hoover Dam; the ensuing construction of diversion tunnels and then the dam itself; building of support facilities, such as a steel fabrication plant for giant pipe construction; and creation of hydroelectric operations that provided electricity to California, Nevada, and Arizona. Also details how Lake Mead evolved into a successful recreational area as a result of the dam construction.
My grandfather worked on the Hoover Dam. I remember him talking about the sheriff meeting them when they got off the train. Sheriff gave the men a 5-foot X 10-foot area to pitch a tent. And told them they had one week to get hired. If they didn't, they had to leave town. My grandfather said the only way a fella could get on the job was if someone died or fired. Because nobody was quitting.
Thanks for sharing
For some reason I feel that we will not build something this impressive again. Politics have halted infrastructure progress in the U.S. for 20 odd years.
I just drove cross country last month. I-94 to I-90.. all the way to Boston.. roads were absolutely awful almost the entire way. I am amazed I didn’t break any tire linings.
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 DC swamp wanna send $44 billion oversea to aid Ukraine while our infrastructure at home look like dog shit and they don’t give a damn.
Not politics, demographics.
@@JacketVEVO Both
This was indeed a golden era for America. In today’s era of trump however, america continues to go downhill, nothing to be proud of anymore.
no solidworks, no autocad, no lasers, no computers, no 3D printers, no 'special interest groups'. AND... completed 2.5 years ahead of schedule and i bet they were under budget too. Absolutely astonishing.
Definitely no OSHA either lmao
Back then when everyone would show up to work everyday
Back then when people care about what they were doing it was for the good of the country. Now a lot of people dont care about the country USA. The thing is the dont care but they dont want to leave either
@@jayecheverria2454 to be fair, the country was in the midst of a full blown depression at the time so people were lucky to be employed at all, and officially 96 people died during the dam's construction, which likely means that the number is higher.
96 people died
I love how old documentaries sound and look. Nostalgic
Yep, they remind me of being back in school and watching those really old videos lol
That had to of been a SOB working there at that time! The workers did a great job everything came out really good 👍🏻
I agree. They did a great job all the way around. Completely amazing.
What?
WHAT YOU SAY???!!!!
This couldn't be built today. No way! Regulations! And good luck finding the workers.... Be all Mexicans...I guarantee it without a shadow of doubt. Ain't no more houses being built, all Mexicans have gone to the dam project.
Amazing what can be built when you throw human desperation at a project.
Many died unfortunately 😮
Freakin incredible! Need something? Invent it! Need steel? Build a plant. Need concrete? Build a plant. Need machinery? Invent whatever they need!?! Almost 100 freaking years ago!?!?! Holy shit!!!
Yep, our great, great grandfathers really knew how to do it. That was what made America the industrial giant it was. Such a shame we lost most of that these days to outsourcing. we need to bring that all back home again.
Wait, didn't Obama say, "You didn't build that!"
@@DeploraBill59
Obama said a lot of bullshit.
Amazing to watch this build. Sadly Lake Mead is losing water at a alarming rate (2022)
Yes, it is sad. And the reason I found this video. Standing on this gives me horrible vertigo.
Yeah you gotta get that bomber out of there
Rip to the 96 brave hard workers that died
I’m happy and proud of got chance to take care few of the crews and engineers of Hoover Dam in their late stages of life.
I salute them.
watching this doc while parked in the parking lot overlooking the dam. As a visitor from abroad, props USA for this amazing success of engineering, collaborative politics and execution of construction companies!
I can tell you that a public works project of this size couldn't get built today, owing to the mountains of laws, regulations, and rules governing occupational health and safety, environmental impact, and the turf wars between political jurisdictions all looking out for their own interests instead of the broader public interest. Since Oroville Dam was built I can't think of a single project of that size that was successfully completed and still in operation today. We can't even get a replacement bridge built between Washington and Oregon! We've been at it for a quarter century and not one teaspoon of dirt has been excavated, after blowing about $200 million in taxpayer dollars on feasibility studies, design studies, engineering studies, environmental impact studies, jurisdictional turf wars, methods of funding, and being unable to persuade taxpayers to foot the bill as proposed. Our great monuments are now replaced by monuments to stupidity and political factionalism. I have little hope we'll ever be able to attempt a project the size and complexity of Hoover Dam ever again, quite honestly.
Go home.
@@briane173 a bigger one is being built in canada right now
@@clatonblade2211 Eh?
All it took was killing 100 people.
America hasnt had a golden age of growth and building of industry like this in some time.
This stuff is timeless design, and still is blowing everything else away.
These old schools docs are so amazing !
I love all of them
We were also shown this in grammar school. I appreciate them more now
Fred Dibnah
Why isn't there no great feats like this done anymore ? 😪
@@speedracer1945 Because people like you Speed Racer, because of people like you.
@@brianedgar3413 ease up that glass pipe.
Seriously though, who wrote this narrative? Referring to the Colorado river annually destroying farmland, homes...cities?!? There seems to be a curious need to create the persona of the river as an evil villain that all man must fight in order to justify building the dam.
I've Been across this dam. Amazing!
And now 2022 the hoover dam is just about out of commission because to many people being reckless with water. To many non essential luxuries... golf courses and grass in every yard in the desert... food and water out the faucet is more important.
Back when Americans had a reason to be proud of our country, we were actually leading the world.
It makes me sad thinking about how great we could be, but uncontrollable greed has taken over every bit of our government and corporations. We deserve so much better. We could do so much better.
and now its history soon with water drying up huh?
That's what The United States needs, a Hoover Dam attitude!!!
God damn right brother!🤘🇺🇸
Documentary writing used to be so much more dynamic.
Go watch how it's made silly
Jjjb
i could only imagine the pride the men involved in this feat mustve had till the day they died 🙏👍🏻
I was lucky enough to tour the Dam before 911 when they let you go down into the tunnels above the massive water tubes and eventually I got to see the generators. It was truly amazing. What an incredible engineering feat.
I was lucky enough to see the tunnels and generators last week on a tour. I think they have been opened back up to the public.
I too took the tour in the 1980s. It was a masterful sight to see. I feel fortunate to have been able to take that tour.
Ones water 💦 stop CHAOS WILL COME LIKE EUPRATES RIVER😢😢😢😢
The Hard Hat tour was really the best! I did my HH tour in summer of '01. How lucky I was!!
I think I still have my hard hat, too!
Me too. I went in 1999. Took the hard hat tour.
Still the best man made thing I’ve ever seen.
Welcome to the dam tour. I'll be your dam guide. If you'd follow me we can continue this dam tour.
I recall another video on the building of the dam that mentioned they had to install refrigerated cooling lines through all of the blocks of concrete to keep it cool enough for quite a few years after it was finished
They did, that was the Modern Marvels video from like the early 2000's that's what I watched waaaaay back when. They just used the water to cool it through the pipes is all.
You haVe?
The pipes would of been used to control the concretes temperature. Concrete will generate quite a bit of heat. To much heat will cause it to lose moisture too quickly. The slower the concrete cures basically the stronger it will be(Just don't let it freeze).
I believe they do that to prevent cracks as the concrete cures but once it's hardened it gets backfilled with the slurry
@@Galactis1
Yep. That was a good series. I e been looking for it, but can’t find it.
the infrastructure needed and built for the sole purpose of the dam is more impressive than the dam itself.
Yeah! it's pretty amazing to imagine all that had to be imagined, drawn up, organized, put together, talked about, designed, coordinated, on and on......., just to get the project started! Big projects like that are "magical" in their execution.
Dam straight
@@jamesdavis8542 OH SHITH!!!!!!! YOU DONE GONE AND WENT THERE!!!!$!$!$!$!$!!!!!$
engineering at its finest
@@franklinbarlow8020 Oh so you also have no concern for mother nature or the Natives. I hope you're proud 😞. Question: Do dams not have a tendency to malfunction from time to time?
Didnt realise there were so many other Dams below Hoover Dam !
Truly amazing use of a recource !
A absolute amazing feat of construction and engineering, all Americans should be proud of the Hoover dam
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Proud!?!?!?!?!?!
PROUD!?!?!?!?
We fuc'd up mother nature on land that used to belong to the Natives!!!! We are living in the immediate aftermath of the largest genocide of people, probably ever. At least we got a cool damn that will bust wide open one day out of it!!!
Absolutely correct. Bunch of worthless schmucks these days that only care of themselves and they’re phones. No gratitude. ( Josefin g bein one of them ) Truely turning into a sad entitled society. There’s no way that could be built today. Unfortunately, Society has gone backwards.
Why they didn't build it and it is still have a massive impact on the environment today. We should be removing megadams not celebrating them
It's a colossal . To build this in nowhere to provide electricity to several states and water to Vegas . Though the lake levels been dropping over the years .
People these days SAY they work hard, lmfao 🤣 no these men worked hard, i bet that was one ass busting job! Hats off to everyone that did it..
I want to go back bros
90 years later, the turbines might be worthless
What they didn’t realize at the time of planning was that there was a 35 year all time HIGH of rainfall/river water volume. By the time the dam was completed, the decline had begun. And as we see, it has declined a LOT since the initial surveys. I suspect it will eventually reverse again as all things cycle-but none of us may be alive to see if.
I was just there two week ago and it’s beautiful but water it’s getting pretty low but amazing piece of art tho
I remember sitting for what seemed like hours in grid-lock trying to make it past the dam. Just hoping the a/c or car wouldn't give out.
If this was to be made by todays unions, it would take 15 years
50
Lmao
Yeah…what’s a few lost workers? No biggie.
@Whiskey Dear and probably went on strike and had a 3 month long picnic on the side of the road😂
@@jgray1711 Correct, they were probably the dolts.
Amazing and they did it with steam shovels and primitive equipment. And no OSHA 😆
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That's why it was successful
Amazing what we can do when health and safety aren't involved.
Fuck off soy boy, tend to your paper cuts and solarcells.
lmao yes,yes indeed
and when Western Man is left to create without impediment from parasites and certain political ideologies.
ANYTHINGSSS POSSSSIBLEEEE (Kevin Garnett voice ) lol
You must be British. We don't have health and safety in America we have Labor and industries.
This video is pure Americana, God bless the 🇺🇸.
The crazy part is now the southwest region out grew its water needs and before anyone says it , it has nothing to do with CLIMATE CHANGE... The dam is a modern marvel and unbelievable construction project even at todays standards. The dam has its pro and cons. The pros it worked out for a long time and it's whole idea behind worked as planned. The con is you shouldn't build something like that cause it's the primary cause of the population boom in that region. It's a desert and to try to sustain life there makes it hard on everyone and surrounding regions.
Dang whenever the water was that high, now it's so low it's sad
Amazing to see thank you for putting this on TH-cam.
As it says at the end, new chapters will be written.....YUP, we're out of water. Wasted the majority of the water
Respect for The science and those who worked there
Just returned from a Vegas and visited the Dam and went on the tour inside to see the turbine hall, one of the turbines was out for maintenance so was fortunate to see the repair in progress, absolutely amazing feat of engineering, would thoroughly recommend anyone to visit if they get get the opportunity.
Im mind baffled that this was done almost 90 years ago
After that river bed dried up ,hope someone tried a few pans
Frank Crowe was the superintendent of general construction of the dam. He may have been the only person in America able build the dam so efficiently.
My Grandfather Delphi Billings worked there. He was part of Morris & Knudson.
I hate this world we live in today. Back when this took place, politics took next to no hold on it. No one complaining about “environment impact”, no unions demanding things the union bosses would abuse, no OSHA BS to put up with, no Twitter BS complaints about it being evil, just men working their asses off grateful to have a job that provided for their families when the economy was destroyed. Families just grateful for opportunity, not even realizing they were making history the entire time. No clue one day I’d be watching this on my iPhone in Gilbert, AZ envious of what THEY had. I used to visit this dam as a kid. Back then, the water was actually at the right level.
Yes and without that we have all the problems that the damn created. Almost made Vegas go fucking bankrupt, and surrounding towns thousands began to die from dehydration. Everything that exists exists for a reason, remember the phrase "safety regulations are written in blood", well all that "shit" we have today is too, because without it pipe dreams like this end up fucking a lot of other things up and causing a lot of problems that could have been avoided had we had a little thing called a thought process and thinking things out.
Its not Hoover dam .Its(Boulder) dam. Because he was president when it was built. Does not technology make it Hoover..
amazing video.....I have been on the tour, but never got this much information.......thank you for showing.....
No one involved with these projects could have imagined the sustained droughts we face today.
They did experience such droughts and expected future ones, thus a reservoir of water for such occurrences. The arrogance of our hindsight. These men built this dam sans modern computers, autocad, etc. yet they anticipated so much. Don't short change them just because you have Google and listen to the Climate fear mongers. We'll be ok.
America needs to plants trees and clean up areas around lakes rivers and streams , water is life!
Stop spending 1900 gallons/1 lb of almonds produced California....seriously! Your farming practices suck.
I don't know figures but you are right. Every hydroelectric project created the droughts and flooding because it messes with rivers natural course which usually helps with fertility since you need that water pressure to create electricity. As you read this you need this electricity so can't complain about it completely.
"No more floods no more droughts"...yea they didn't quite do the research necessary, did they?
The concrete is still curing today! 87 years later...
From the time of construction, pipes where embedded in the concrete and water was pumped through the structure to dissipate the heat produced by the curing concrete. Over 582 miles of cooling pipe.
Lake Meads water level at the dam as of May, 18th 2022 was at 1,050 feet and dropping. The all-time high was in 1983 at 1,225 feet. Drought and regional demand are the reasons why it's at it's lowest levels since the 1930s...
Can someone timestamp these minorities who allegedly built this nation anywhere in this video?
They don't mention that the 'high scalers' the ones setting the explosives on the walls were actually professional circus acts from Vegas! No engineer would touch that job.
Yea that’s crazy but without the engineers and infrastructure they wouldn’t even be up there in the first place
@@Crow_Man918 oh ofcourse. And don't get me wrong, every on site job in this had a risk of losing your life. But those trapeze performers setting holes, guiding lines, and explosives...that's something else!
They do say acrobatic workman
They said “acrobatic”
Yep, bunch of clowns..
Wow, this film must be old. they measured those transformers as 2000 tonnes rather then its equivalent weight of 200,786,453,000 pigeons............................
And to think the dam was designed with slide rulers and paper…No 3d computer modeling or profiling.
7-17-2022 Drought still plagues the dam and renders it just slightly above useless now.
...and to think that there are college students today who can't even read analog clocks, much less know what penmanship is.
My boy is in 6th grade in The Twin Cities in MN, they didnt even teach cursive. Ended up spending the time to teach him to write it properly.
And soon the Hoover Dam will be useless. A tourist attraction still, but on another level. I saw the Reservoir full in 1983 and soon I'm going to see it every. At least once Vegas is done pumping out the remaining 10%.
My Grandfather worked on the “Boulder” Dam from beginning to end. We always referred to it as Boulder Dam,or, Grandpa would severely chastise you!
My grandfather worked on it also. He’s long passed now but use to tell us stories. Hope one day I can visit it.
Visited Hoover Dam in 2004 and it is a magnificent sight.
Only at this channel right now because Hoover Dam had an explosion just the other day.
Man you can make anything so good with the right spin on things
Look how high the water used to be
On a tour of the dam back in 2005 the guide said that he had had someone ask how they got the white line around the reservoir. He told them that they hired the boy scouts each year to come out and whitewash it. 🙂
That took me back to grade school. I can almost hear the clackity hum of the reel to reel.
They got this massive project done way under budget and 2yrs short of the allotted time given to COMPLETE the entire project. Why was this possible?... It's very SIMPLE. Back during that time the Nation was in the middle of a DEEP DEPRESSION, (Thanks to FDR and his AWFUL DOMESTIC POLICIES), and MEN had a Damn Good Work ETHIC, you didn't DARE call-out because if YOU DID, don't bother showing up for work the next morning because your job was already GONE soon after you hung up the phone. I'm pretty SURE there was A LONG LINE of MEN hanging around outside the main gate waiting for someone to get hurt or killed on the job or no-shows etc..That was how FAST you would be REPLACED....NO QUESTIONS ASKED. The other reasons were the contractors were NOT SHACKLED down by UNIONS and a bunch of BURDENSOME BULL-SHEEE-IT ASS government RULES and REGULATIONS because WE ALL KNOW how fast government can "F**K S**T UP !!...
Ya know, that kinda sounds like ol' Joe Biden......
It's wild. I don't think we could build the hoover dam again today with my generation. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants.
@Nap Time Is the Three Gorges Dam a Ticking Time Bomb?
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You're right, sadly. Today there would be OSHA law suits, enviromental groups filing suits, all the "woke" groups filing suits about "there race, religion, sexual orientation....etc" not being represented. You name it.
Literally a sky scraper a day goes up in this country. We do this every day on a scale 100 times this.
I hope one day America will be this great again.
We already are, now that we've gotten rid of trump.
@@GermanShepherd1983 o really
It won't, it's in decline.
@@Galactis1 I've made far more money since Biden took over. I farm, and grain prices have tripled from what we had under trump. That idiot trump put tariffs on China and that caused huge loses for America's farmers. I love you Joe Biden. Laughing all the way to the bank.
@@Galactis1 well not with that attitude sunshine! Let’s turn that frown upside down and start doing something to right the ship. Sound good there sizzlechest?
Considering the amount of electricity and water the dam has provided and continues to provide it was a great investment.
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The people who built this monument lived and worked in a desolate neighborhood. That perserverenc, toughness, and resolve likely won't happen ever again.. The humans who built Hoover Dam, are now ancestry to the new breed of builders. A.I. will be building their own infrastructures,
The techs, mathematicians designers - known as TOOL & DIE GUYS, They never get a mention!! No Glory, or acknowledgment. , THEY are the humans that are first in line , because THEY first have to create a mold, creat a casting , make sure its precise, for every part used in construction. SOo thanks to all the humans that made Hoover Dam Possible - If not for T & D humans, this Dam wouldnt exist.
We humans are regressing rapidly, as A.I. is progressing rapidly, and already replacing us in millions of jobs around the world. Guess it's about time I hat up. You dig?
I did not see any rebar in the pour of the damn itself. I mean it is 650 feet thick so maybe at that point it is not necessary.
2 years of pouring the damn and it was finished 2.5 years ahead of schedule. That is one of the most amazing feats of the whole thing.
The fact that this thing was built for a total of 175 million back then means it is still only a $3.7 billion project in today's money. That is hilariously cheap for what it is.
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Who knew way back then? All that work just to keep Teslas on the road! 8-)
You've got to remember the Dam was built in the 20s and 30s using state of the art methods for the times
I'm sure that China will build something remarkable for us once they own us outright.
If this doesn’t bring me back to 7th grade social studies.
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I'm curious how much maintenance has to take place or is it just so well built it's like changing the oil on an old engine year after year. Definitely a wonder of the world.
People were so much smarter back then…With work ethic, foresightedness. As a proud American, who happens to be African American heritage, im sad where we are now….and I see us getting worse
Hoover dam
I don't understand the big deal it's Tiny, compared to Grand coulee dam.Actually 1/3 the size
Me gusta la cultura Estadounidense 😍
Flooding is what made land fertile.
I have known most of the information that you have given me for many years however unfortunately at being 60 years old I have never seen the damn personally I do believe one of the greatest things we have ever done in United States
No way could they build it now. Take years, too many smoke breaks and bull 💩 session's. My opinion
What I find very awesome is that batch plants haven’t much changed 🤙
Can’t believe they actually made the Hoover Dam from New Vegas
But toxic masculinity
Imagine how much gold was on that gravel...
We will never build another important project, the world is too corrupt, but we will destroy the planet.
And as of today, the water level is very close to "dead pool"...
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And now, very little water. Flow levels were based on flawed precipitation records, and then the water was squandered by building cities in deserts.
This is great example of propaganda. Anything man vs nature never ends well for man
What is it with the old US documentaries... The narrator voice, the background music and the ''negative HD'' image quality... I love it!
Now everyone understands the prophecy of wormwood in the book of Revelation..
Mexico Canada and America we will need one another and will flourish abundantly by working together.
congress took only ten years???????? gee some things never change
If all the people involved with this project could see what it looks like today they'd say forget it we're not building it!!!
Watching this video is like been in elementary school again.
Am I the only person that immediately saw a dog's face on the map around the 2 minute mark?
He said each of the big pipe section weighed 150 ~ 184 tons. Then he said after the pipe section was transported to the canyon rim at the dam site, a 150-ton cable way lowered the section to the canyon floor, then moved into it's intended position. So how many cable ways snapped I wonder.
That's RIGHT!
Maybe thats just how much the cable way weighed and not how much it could hold
If you've ever been there, that original crane going across the canyon is still there. I'd like to know how they got the pipes into their proper location with them weighing 150-184 tones. Mind boggling.
@Max Powers right... Yep.... SMH.
Not the "whole" as 180 people died building the dam.
I wouldn't want to be around when they snapped