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A view from a helicopter ride over the Hoover Dam This is the kind of view you will only get from a helicopter tour. The helicopter ride gets you to a level you can get some great camera shots if you like to take pictures. At the peak of construction at Hoover Dam 5,218 people would be working on the Dam at one time. Hoover Dam is 726.4 feet in height, it is 660 feet thick at the base and contains 4,360,000 cubic yards of concrete. The power plant at Hoover Dam has the capacity to produce 1,344,800 electricity kilowatts. Hoover Dam has produced approximately 150 billion kilowatts (enough energy to supply a million residents for 20 years). Hoover Dam is a testimony to a country's ability to construct monolithic projects in the midst of adverse conditions. Built during the Depression; thousands of men and their families came to Black Canyon to tame the Colorado River. It took less than five years, in a harsh and barren land, to build the largest dam of its time. Now, years later, Hoover Dam still stands as a world-renowned structure. The Dam is a National Historic Landmark and has been rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of America's Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders. |
