I can see where the government says its an "innovation" to pay the public back for a project that makes money. In reality it would be an innovation for any government project to actually make money.. But here it is!
View of the new Hoover Dam bypass bridge scheduled to open three weeks after we leave. We can cross over the bridge with the
rv with it being subject to inspection. For our trip heading east from Boulder City it will save an hour and a half travel time. The roads leading to and from the bridge are narrow and steep. They really needed a bypass.
The two buildings below the dam on either side of the river are the generator houses. The one on the left is in Arizona and the right in Nevada.
We took the power plant tour which you take an elevator down some 500+ feet to the generator rooms. The hallways down there leading to the room are all tunnels cut in the stone. A little creepy.... The small generator in the lower right corner provides all the house electric for the dam and visitors center. The overhead cranes in the rear are 300 tons capacity each, they say one rotor in one generator weighs 600 tons!
Deb's two sons live in
Las Vegas and went with us on the tour of the dam and generators.
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