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The generators are 60 feet tall and weight 300 tons apiece. Forty feet of the generators are below ground level.
View from the bottom of the dam. The dam is 660 feet thick at the bottom and 45 feet thick at the
top and is 726 feet high. When they built the dam, they had to discover a new way to cure the cement because it would have taken over 100 years to cure with
the current technology that was available. What they did was build a ice factory and run ice water through pipes in the freshly laid cement.
The dam is a free standing structure meaning that the sides only butt up to the dirt. The pressure from the water keeps the dam against the dirt.
The center of the dam is pushed in 18 inches from the pressure of the water!
Lake Mead is 110 miles long and has 550 miles of shoreline
This is the only place in the world where the power poles are at an angle. Wouldn't you know it, it was designed by a woman!
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