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Feb 15 2018 01:08:41 (EST)

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Reclamation to offer modified Hoover Dam tours during visitor center remodel and tour elevator upgrades

Visitor Center Exhibit and Observation Levels, and Original Exhibit Building to remain open during construction period

Boulder City, Nev. – The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that on October 1, construction will begin to remodel and enhance one level of the Hoover Dam Visitor Center and modernize the facility’s primary tour elevators. To accommodate the construction, temporary alteration of its internal tour and Visitor Center operations is necessary.

“We look forward to improving our Visitor Center and tour capabilities. These improvements will enhance our visitors’ experience well into the future,” said Leonard C. Schilling, Area Manager of the Lower Colorado Dams Office. “To facilitate these construction activities, we need to take the Theater Level (the normal visitor entrance) and the primary tour route elevators out of service for approximately four-months.”

Construction work will begin on October 1 and is scheduled to be completed by February 14, 2019.

During the construction period, the dam’s primary Visitor Center Exhibit and Observation Levels, as well as the Original Exhibit Building, will remain open. A modified Powerplant Tour initiating at the original ticket window on top of the dam will be available.

“Due to the limited capacity of the dam’s service elevators – which are not typically used for tours of the facility – we will suspend online ticket sales for the duration of the construction period,” added Schilling. “All Exhibit and Powerplant Tour tickets will be sold onsite on the day of use on a first-come first-serve basis.”

During the construction period, Visitor Center tickets can be purchased at the parking garage bus level and the Visitor Center Exhibit level. Powerplant Tour tickets, which include admission to the Visitor Center, will be sold at the original Nevada ticket window on top of the dam. A brochure with a map identifying the ticket sale locations, along with other areas of interest will be available at parking areas and online. Additional information can be found at www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam or you can contact visitor services at (866) 730-9097.

https://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=63238

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Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 276796 No.382161 📁

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The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).

The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) river drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. and two Mexican states.

Starting in the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the river flows generally southwest across the Colorado Plateau and through the Grand Canyon before reaching Lake Mead on the Arizona–Nevada border, where it turns south toward the international border.

After entering Mexico, the Colorado approaches the mostly dry Colorado River Delta at the tip of the Gulf of California between Baja California and Sonora.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

*The Colorado, A River Under Stress

The Colorado River is vitally important to the residents of the seven western states that share its drainage basin. It supplies irrigation and drinking water to more than 30 million people over an area stretching from Denver to San Diego. Unfortunately, the river is over allocated and over utilized and with the current drought we are reaching the point where who uses its water and how much they use will almost certainly have to change.

In order to understand how we’ve gotten to where we are today it is necessary to look back at how the Colorado River, one of the most regulated in the world, has been manipulated and managed since 1900. Prior to the twentieth century the Colorado ran free and was only utilized by those few people and settlements along the river that used minor amounts for irrigation and municipal purposes. The Colorado is one of the very few rivers in this country that has no major cities along its banks, although Las Vegas is only a few miles away. The river has never really been suitable for navigation, and the extremely hot summers along the lower reaches discouraged settlement. Most of the municipal use takes place outside the river’s drainage basin.

http://www.desertreport.org/?p=1129

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3 years ago

Approximately what magnitude earthquake would it require to destroy the Hoover Dam?

In the trailer for the movie San Andreas they show the Hoover Dam collapsing as a result of a super earthquake. Has there ever been an earthquake in history that would have been capable of destroying a structure like the Hoover Dam? What would the absolute minimum magnitude on the Richter scale be for a quake that could cause destruction such as that, assuming it happened as close to the dam as possible?

Edit: here's an article that kind of covers the premise, but seems to cover the question in terms of what could realistically happen. I guess I'm more wondering what could hypothetically happen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/37jd1l/approximately_what_magnitude_earthquake_would_it/