Buffalo Bill Dam
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| Coordinates | 44 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ N , 109 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W | ||||||||
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| Lock type: | Arch weight wall | ||||||||
| Construction time: | 1905-1910 | ||||||||
| Height above foundation level : | 106.75 m | ||||||||
| Building volume: | 63 382 m³ | ||||||||
| Crown length: | 61 m | ||||||||
| Crown width: | 3.05 m | ||||||||
| Base width: | 33 m | ||||||||
| Power plant output: | 3 MW | ||||||||
| Data on the reservoir | |||||||||
| Storage space | 522.9 million m³ | ||||||||
The Buffalo Bill Dam ( English Buffalo Bill Dam ) is a dam on the Shoshone River in the US state of Wyoming . The lake dammed up by the dam is called Buffalo Bill Reservoir.
history
The dam is part of the Shoshone Project , one of the first three hydraulic engineering projects of the Bureau of Reclamation . It was built from October 19, 1905 to January 15, 1910. On that day the construction was completed with the filling of the last load of concrete into the constructed Shoshone Dam . The structure cost 929,658 US dollars. Seven workers lost their lives in the construction work. At the time of its completion, the dam wall was 99 meters tall and was probably the first dam wall to be taller than the Kurit dam built around 1350 .
Until 1946, the retained dam Shoshone Dam its name. She was named after the showman Buffalo Bill renamed the nearby town of Cody founded and a large part of the country had, now from the reservoir Buffalo Bill Reservoir is covered. The area around the reservoir is designated as Buffalo Bill State Park . The dam is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark .
Dam wall and hydroelectric power station
The barrier structure, which stands about 10 km upriver from Cody, is a concrete arched weight wall with a constant radius. It was one of the first tall concrete dams in the USA and was built by the Thompson-Starrett Co. Conversions took place in 1915, 1922–23, 1959 and 1990–93. The dam was recently increased by around 7.6 m to 106.75 m.
The connected hydropower plant at the foot of the dam originally had an output of 6 megawatts with three turbines. Due to maintenance and safety problems, all turbines were taken out of service in March 1980 and one of them was replaced by a new 3-megawatt turbine in 1991. In addition, there has been a new 18 MW power plant 1.6 km further down the Shoshone River since 1993.
See also
- List of the largest dams on earth
- List of the largest reservoirs on earth
- List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world
- List of dams in the world
- List of the historical milestones in engineering
literature
Donald C. Jackson: Great American Bridges and Dams, John Wiley & Sons, New York, ISBN 0-471-14385-5 , 1984, p. 317
Web links
- USBR ( Memento from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Buffalo Bill Dam Visitor Center
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lynn Johnson Houze (ed.): Cody (= Images of America: a history of American life in images and texts ). Arcadia Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7385-4835-7 , pp. 18 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Jeremy M. Johnston: Powell (= Images of America ). Arcadia Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7385-6917-8 , pp. 36 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).