Hoover Dam
An Engineering Marvel Takes Shape Near Hoover Dam
BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — Less than a mile downstream from one of the nation’s best-known engineering marvels, the Hoover Dam, a second is taking shape.
A soaring 1,900-foot span across the gorge created by the Colorado River on the Arizona-Nevada border should be completed this fall, eliminating much of a sometimes hourlong bottleneck as traffic [...]
Hoover Dam Bypass: Workers About to Connect the Arch
Construction workers are nearing the completion of a concrete arch which will form the backbone of the new Hoover Dam Bypass. The two sides of the arch have been steadily growing from both the Arizona and Nevada side of Black Canyon out toward one another.
Once the two sides of the arch connect in September the [...]
