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Hoover Dam bypass bridge construction pix.

Started by 472 R/T SE, February 25, 2010, 01:27:33 AM

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472 R/T SE

This was an email my Mother sent me.  Pretty cool, I personally know several iron workers who'd rather be up in the air than down on the ground.  This project kinda takes it to another level.

Impressive!





Creeping closer inch by inch, 900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, the two sides of
a $160 million bridge at the Hoover Dam slowly take shape.  The bridge will carry a new
section of US Route 93 past the bottleneck of the old road which can be seen twisting and
winding around and across the dam itself.

When complete, it will provide a new link between the states of Nevada and Arizona .
In an incredible feat of engineering, the road will be supported on the two massive
concrete arches which jut out of the rock face.

The arches are made up of 53 individual sections each 24 feet long which have been
cast on-site and are being lifted into place using an improvised high-wire crane strung
between temporary steel pylons.

The arches will eventually measure more than 1,000 feet across.
At the moment, the structure looks like a traditional suspension bridge.
But once the arches are complete, the suspending cables on each side will be removed.
Extra vertical columns will then be installed on the arches to carry the road.
The bridge has become known as the Hoover Dam bypass, although it is officially called
the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, after a former governor of Nevada
and an American Football player from Arizona who joined the US Army and was killed
in Afghanistan.
Work on the bridge started in 2005 and should finish next year. An estimated 17,000
cars and trucks will cross it every day.

The dam was started in 1931 and used enough concrete to build a road from New York
to San Francisco . The stretch of water it created, Lake Mead , is 110 miles long and
took six years to fill.  The original road was opened at the same time as the famous dam in 1936.

An extra note: The top of the white band of rock in Lake Mead is the old waterline prior
to the drought and development in the Las Vegas area. It is over 100 feet above the
current water level.







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Thank you, thank you. Those are great shots.

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OHHHH    F!  THAT JOB!!!        Respect to the guys who do it - My balls are as big as they come but even I think I would have problems  up there    :scratchchin:
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 :coolgleamA:  thats construction  :yesnod:  rememeber watching a program a few times on the making of the hoover damn  :o that was a feat & half even then all them years ago ! must watch tv is you see it advertised :yesnod:
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Cool bridge, but it's sure gonna mess up the picturesque views of the Hoover Dam now. 

chargerboy69

Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on February 25, 2010, 07:09:59 AM
             
Cool bridge, but it's sure gonna mess up the picturesque views of the Hoover Dam now. 


That is what I was thinking too.

Thanks for the pictures, they are cool to see.
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Great and impressive.

I was there in June 09.
As I can see, they did a great progress.  :2thumbs:

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Quote from: Cooperman on February 25, 2010, 06:46:41 AM
It's a great feat of engineering, but my I raise my hat to the guy that empties the highest crapper in the world...  :o

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Thanks for the pictures, i have been following this project thru ENR for years now.  I would be right up there no problem in my younger days.  Now that i am married with kids i would probably opt out. 


Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on February 25, 2010, 07:09:59 AM
             
Cool bridge, but it's sure gonna mess up the picturesque views of the Hoover Dam now. 

They looked at locations further north and further south but the current location was the most cost effective route to use.
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The70RT

Looks like they have came a long ways since I was there last year in January. The construction was shut down when I was there because of a guy falling to his death.  :eek2:
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Quote from: PocketThunder on February 25, 2010, 09:35:28 AM
Thanks for the pictures, i have been following this project thru ENR for years now.  I would be right up there no problem in my younger days.  Now that i am married with kids i would probably opt out. 


Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on February 25, 2010, 07:09:59 AM
             
Cool bridge, but it's sure gonna mess up the picturesque views of the Hoover Dam now. 

They looked at locations further north and further south but the current location was the most cost effective route to use.


   What is ENR?..
Great Pics! Thanks!

PocketThunder

Quote from: The70RT on February 25, 2010, 10:36:06 AM
Looks like they have came a long ways since I was there last year in January. The construction was shut down when I was there because of a guy falling to his death.  :eek2:
I thought he got hit by a crane that fell?


Dave,

ENR is a magazine in the contruction industry called Engineering News Record.  http://enr.construction.com/Default.asp
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 Ok Cool...

that will come in handy...

when we gonna see more pics of your new Charger?..  :popcrn:

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Cool Pics Mike.... Thanks for posting and Mom for sharing........  :2thumbs:

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Quote from: Brock Samson on February 25, 2010, 10:45:49 AM
Ok Cool...

that will come in handy...

when we gonna see more pics of your new Charger?..  :popcrn:

Engine is at the engine shop right now.  I was going to wait till i get it back to post and update.  So sometime after easter.

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I told Chuck you couldn't pay me to go across that thing!!! We've been watching it being built, for a couple years now, and when you look up it's intimidating. I don't even want to know what it's like to look down!!!!! HELL NO! (can you tell I don't do bridges? :-\)

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TruckDriver

I've crossed the dam several times in a semi when I used to drive cross country. Those curves don't look as sharp as they really are. It was a little nerve racking when you would meet another truck coming at you in the curve cause you would have to come over the center line a little so your trailer wouldn't hit the rocks. On top of that, if you were going into Nevada, then your trailer woul cross over the center line too a little. Really had to be sharp.
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Quote from: skip68 on February 25, 2010, 12:57:04 PM
I told Chuck you couldn't pay me to go across that thing!!! We've been watching it being built, for a couple years now, and when you look up it's intimidating. I don't even want to know what it's like to look down!!!!! HELL NO! (can you tell I don't do bridges? :-\)

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Chuck took me to the Hoover Dam last year March. We walked up and down, saw some construction going on.
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Quote from: chargerboy69 on February 25, 2010, 08:05:13 AM
Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on February 25, 2010, 07:09:59 AM
             
Cool bridge, but it's sure gonna mess up the picturesque views of the Hoover Dam now. 


That is what I was thinking too.

Thanks for the pictures, they are cool to see.

Yep I most diffidently agree with you both on that note. They just can not leave well enough alone with shit can they.  :icon_smile_dissapprove: . have anyone every seen the movie "Cars"? and remember in that film when they stuck that new part of the road through to what happen to the small town? I know that was only a cartoon film but that same kind of thing can also happen here as well  :icon_smile_dissapprove: 

Thanks to the guy for sharing the photos though. 

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Quote from: bakerhillpins on February 25, 2010, 08:52:24 AM
Quote from: Cooperman on February 25, 2010, 06:46:41 AM
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Quote from: MoparManJim on February 25, 2010, 03:13:47 PM
Quote from: chargerboy69 on February 25, 2010, 08:05:13 AM
Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on February 25, 2010, 07:09:59 AM
             
Cool bridge, but it's sure gonna mess up the picturesque views of the Hoover Dam now. 


That is what I was thinking too.

Thanks for the pictures, they are cool to see.

Yep I most diffidently agree with you both on that note. They just can not leave well enough alone with shit can they.  :icon_smile_dissapprove: . have anyone every seen the movie "Cars"? and remember in that film when they stuck that new part of the road through to what happen to the small town? I know that was only a cartoon film but that same kind of thing can also happen here as well  :icon_smile_dissapprove: 

Thanks to the guy for sharing the photos though. 

Normally i'm right there with you but in this case, i think it will benefit the damn more with having less traffic on it, and less congestion to get thru that area.  The people that want to see the dam dam can still drive on it if they want.
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Quote from: PocketThunder on February 25, 2010, 03:32:39 PM
Quote from: MoparManJim on February 25, 2010, 03:13:47 PM
Quote from: chargerboy69 on February 25, 2010, 08:05:13 AM
Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on February 25, 2010, 07:09:59 AM
             
Cool bridge, but it's sure gonna mess up the picturesque views of the Hoover Dam now.  


That is what I was thinking too.

Thanks for the pictures, they are cool to see.

Yep I most diffidently agree with you both on that note. They just can not leave well enough alone with shit can they.  :icon_smile_dissapprove: . have anyone every seen the movie "Cars"? and remember in that film when they stuck that new part of the road through to what happen to the small town? I know that was only a cartoon film but that same kind of thing can also happen here as well  :icon_smile_dissapprove:  

Thanks to the guy for sharing the photos though.  

Normally i'm right there with you but in this case, i think it will benefit the damn more with having less traffic on it, and less congestion to get thru that area.  The people that want to see the dam dam can still drive on it if they want.

Well mostly I'm backing you up as well, but here is the way I see it, say you go there to take photos, now before you had nice scenery as a back drop on both sides, now you with have a big ol bridge in the shot that will look out of place on the one side. And also when folks start to drive over the bridge, I bet that half of them will for get the dam is even there probably after so long of using the bridge.  

Mike DC

                         
Quotehave anyone every seen the movie "Cars"? and remember in that film when they stuck that new part of the road through to what happen to the small town? I know that was only a cartoon film but that same kind of thing can also happen here as well



I think this shot was the funniest thing in the whole movie:


PocketThunder

Quote from: MoparManJim on February 25, 2010, 03:45:40 PMWell mostly I'm backing you up as well, but here is the way I see it, say you go there to take photos, now before you had nice scenery as a back drop on both sides, now you with have a big ol bridge in the shot that will look out of place on the one side. And also when folks start to drive over the bridge, I bet that half of them will for get the dam is even there probably after so long of using the bridge.  

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Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on February 25, 2010, 04:03:21 PM
                         
Quotehave anyone every seen the movie "Cars"? and remember in that film when they stuck that new part of the road through to what happen to the small town? I know that was only a cartoon film but that same kind of thing can also happen here as well



I think this shot was the funniest thing in the whole movie:



I think the funniest part of the whole movie was when Guido does a 4 tire change pit stop and all the tires roll back into place and he turns to the chick hick team and says "pit stop", then all their mustache grilles fall off.   :smilielol:

Or at the end at the drive-in, Mack is pretty good.  http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3504144665/   :rofl:
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When you pour concrete, heat is a byproduct due to the chemical reaction.. they say that if the hoover dam was not put together compartmentally, and instead done by one huge pouring process. the heat from the initial pouring process would still have been emitting to this day.  They needed quick cooling so each part of the Hoover dam was built in smaller concrete compartments to allow the quick dissipation of heat during the hardening process.

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I was there 2 weeks ago, but I didn't get any pics.  :slap:
I'll need to stop by there one of these days.
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Think of the great pictures you can get from the new bridge.   :icon_smile_big:
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mauve66

you won't be able to stop and get pics from the new bridge, well, not legally Chuck
and the bridge is so high up that you won't see it in any of your pics unless you tilt the camera up that direction
i don't know if i want to go across it, the winds get pretty bad out here and they already toppled a couple of cranes on that job a year or so ago
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   I was there in April of 2005. It seemed they were making good progress then, they had the road on both sides to the first set of pillars I believe. I figured they were done by 2007 until I saw something on TV about it last year.
  I agree with Skip68, it may screw up pics from a helicopter, but I find myself in a car most of the time. The view south of the Dam wasn't very interesting anyway. I think the view from the bridge will be very scenic. The article said they were going to remove all the suspension cables, if that's the case then the bridge won't be very intrusive at all. Besides, after Sept. 11, 2001 they banned trucks from going over the Dam, isn't that the main reason for the bridge?
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Here's what it looked like when I was there about 14 months ago.
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Skyview69

Awesome pics but what is the point of that bypass bridge  :shruggy:  Seems like the road over the damn is all that is needed.   Never been there and don't know the traffic situation but I don't see the point of constructing that massive bridge -seems like a waste of resources  :Twocents:

451-74Charger

Silly, its so then can crash Megatron ito it and not hurt the Dam itself...

That will be a cool view from the bridge, pity there is nowhere to pull over on it to allow tourists to take pictures

Skyview69


PocketThunder

Quote from: Skyview69 on March 31, 2010, 09:31:37 AM
Awesome pics but what is the point of that bypass bridge  :shruggy:  Seems like the road over the damn is all that is needed.   Never been there and don't know the traffic situation but I don't see the point of constructing that massive bridge -seems like a waste of resources  :Twocents:

So the terrorist cant drive a truck onto Hoover Dam and blow it up, thus shutting down power to the West.    :shruggy:
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Quote from: PocketThunder on March 31, 2010, 10:00:53 AM
Quote from: Skyview69 on March 31, 2010, 09:31:37 AM
Awesome pics but what is the point of that bypass bridge  :shruggy:  Seems like the road over the damn is all that is needed.   Never been there and don't know the traffic situation but I don't see the point of constructing that massive bridge -seems like a waste of resources  :Twocents:

So the terrorist cant drive a truck onto Hoover Dam and blow it up, thus shutting down power to the West.    :shruggy:

That's a scary thought  :-\

451-74Charger

Quote from: PocketThunder on March 31, 2010, 10:00:53 AM
So the terrorist cant drive a truck onto Hoover Dam and blow it up, thus shutting down power to the West.    :shruggy:

I didnt want to give them any more ideas

Skinypete

Quote from: Skyview69 on March 31, 2010, 09:31:37 AM
Awesome pics but what is the point of that bypass bridge  :shruggy:  Seems like the road over the damn is all that is needed.   Never been there and don't know the traffic situation but I don't see the point of constructing that massive bridge -seems like a waste of resources  :Twocents:

The traffic can be backed up for miles going across the bridge, my family and I stopped there on our vacation one year and the line of cars was massive.  It was kinda like a 2 hour rush hour.

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mauve66

you will still be able to drive over the dam if you want to, but this way traffic won't be backed up forever in the summer for those that have somewhere else to go (the road is steep and curvy, 15-20 MPH) plus large trucks have to go around the dam for reasons already stated and its about an hour or hour and a half out of the way for them, plus Searchlight has a speed trap that is making alot of money off them right no and boulder city wants their money back
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There ain't enough money in da world to pay me to walk across that thing, let alone work on it all day,,,,,,,,, No thanks

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THE STIG

Quote from: PocketThunder on March 31, 2010, 10:00:53 AM
Quote from: Skyview69 on March 31, 2010, 09:31:37 AM
Awesome pics but what is the point of that bypass bridge  :shruggy:  Seems like the road over the damn is all that is needed.   Never been there and don't know the traffic situation but I don't see the point of constructing that massive bridge -seems like a waste of resources  :Twocents:

So the terrorist cant drive a truck onto Hoover Dam and blow it up, thus shutting down power to the West.    :shruggy:

Im sure the millions of people who would drownd had nothing to do with that decision

PocketThunder

Quote from: THE STIG on April 01, 2010, 09:19:44 PM
Quote from: PocketThunder on March 31, 2010, 10:00:53 AM
Quote from: Skyview69 on March 31, 2010, 09:31:37 AM
Awesome pics but what is the point of that bypass bridge  :shruggy:  Seems like the road over the damn is all that is needed.   Never been there and don't know the traffic situation but I don't see the point of constructing that massive bridge -seems like a waste of resources  :Twocents:

So the terrorist cant drive a truck onto Hoover Dam and blow it up, thus shutting down power to the West.    :shruggy:

Im sure the millions of people who would drownd had nothing to do with that decision

Ah heck, the water level is so low right now it would just be a slight wave...  :icon_smile_big:
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I had a 3-4 hour delay going 3 miles to the dam one evening  :P
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I just flew over the dam today on my way back from Texas.
They have 2 road panels left to make it look like a completed bridge.
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Here is my photo when I passed by in February.

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 :o  Look at how far down the water level is. Yikes!
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Quote from: bakerhillpins on April 06, 2010, 08:12:01 AM
:o  Look at how far down the water level is. Yikes!

Thats what i was saying!  I was there back in about 1996 and it was full to the brim.   :o
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I took this pic 16 months ago. I looks to been a little higher then.
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