. Electrical world. er plantsof this sort will yet come to be of importance in the east. At the point selected for the main dam on the Housatonic thebed of the river narrows down to a width of approximately 80 high ledges of solid rock, though the width just back ofthe dam is fully twice this distance. In this admirable situation asolid concrete dam has been laid between the ledges that form thebanks of the river and sunk into the natural rock of its bed. Thisdam is curved in form with a radius of ft. at the toe, the crest and no ft. at the back or upstream side,
. Electrical world. er plantsof this sort will yet come to be of importance in the east. At the point selected for the main dam on the Housatonic thebed of the river narrows down to a width of approximately 80 high ledges of solid rock, though the width just back ofthe dam is fully twice this distance. In this admirable situation asolid concrete dam has been laid between the ledges that form thebanks of the river and sunk into the natural rock of its bed. Thisdam is curved in form with a radius of ft. at the toe, the crest and no ft. at the back or upstream side, the commoncenter of the arcs being near the middle of the river down stream. .\t its base the width of the dam is ft., and 8 ft. of this widthin the part directly below the crest is recessed to a depth of 2 the solid ledge of the river bed. The toe of the dam is sunkabout 3 ft. below the surface of this same ledge. In height from thelowest part of its bed to its crest the dam measures 24 ft., and at the.
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