Re: NPS Warnings
You are exactly right they should have known about cavitation. Actually the Lake Mead dam that was built in the 30's has a spill over that adds air to the...
Robert R. Marley 2001-01-19 10:31:31 #6284

Re: NPS Warnings
You are exactly right. Horror pictures were on display at the dam site during the time. This was the primary reason they couldn't go above 90,000 cfs for...
Robert R. Marley 2001-01-19 10:27:01 #6283

Re: NPS Warnings
Inflows in '83 were over 15 million acre feet and lake holds 24 million or so without the 7' of boards on top. That's fact not what you chose to...
Robert R. Marley 2001-01-19 10:24:45 #6282

Re: NPS Warnings
warming yourself by an open fire is actually pretty nice in my opinion... but I agree with the rest of your post. Al -----Original Message----- From:...
Al Kahler 2001-01-19 09:40:12 #6281

Re: NPS Warnings
Engineers are basically predicting the future when they design a structure, be it a dam, bridge, building, automobile, airplane, computer, or anything else. ...
Edmund Seiders 2001-01-19 09:13:56 #6280

Re: NPS Warnings
--- In grandcanyon@egroups.com, conmara wrote: >Although I doubt it would have made much of a movie. > Hmmm...let's see, Meg Ryan and Tom Cruise in "Top...
Gladson 2001-01-19 09:02:45 #6279

Re: NPS Warnings
Of course as all-knowing engineers they could not claim that they did not know anything about cavitation (look it up, it is a well known principle in...
Bob 2001-01-19 06:51:54 #6278

Re: NPS Warnings
Bob - As I recall when they finally got the water level down and got into the bypass tubes (exact term escapes me) they discovered that the water had almost...
conmara 2001-01-19 06:11:20 #6277

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