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Lower Colorado Drought Visualization
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Closed mwernimont closed 9 years ago

mwernimont commented 9 years ago

The photos on the bottom show the weir for the Dam’s Nevada spillway. There are two spillways at Hoover Dam, one on the Arizona side and one on the Nevada side. The spillways are used to prevent the Dam from overtopping during high water periods. When water reaches the top of the spillway drum gates, it flows into the spillways, bypassing the dam via a series of tunnels and re-entering the river channel below the dam.

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