Building & engineering news . of this typebe built in this country. Fig-. -? Crescent Damcreates an artificial lakewide and provides for tbthe Five Waterford Ixicks :•.power station on extreme i j| Pig-. S. Delta Dam. of :he City of Ronuand contains cubican artificial lake m of ;.73».00!l,00n cuttained from a watershed nto keep ; canalized Mobimum depth in the dry se,is required, Fig 4. !-ock No. 2 at WaterlTord near Troy,commodate six Of the barses at present in us?:rie Canal. This lock is the first of the whi- have a combinfd lift of 169 feet
Building & engineering news . of this typebe built in this country. Fig-. -? Crescent Damcreates an artificial lakewide and provides for tbthe Five Waterford Ixicks :•.power station on extreme i j| Pig-. S. Delta Dam. of :he City of Ronuand contains cubican artificial lake m of ;.73».00!l,00n cuttained from a watershed nto keep ; canalized Mobimum depth in the dry se,is required, Fig 4. !-ock No. 2 at WaterlTord near Troy,commodate six Of the barses at present in us?:rie Canal. This lock is the first of the whi- have a combinfd lift of 169 feet. first to [hove Waterford. This damer ten miles long and a of water with which:ire operated. Hydro-electricigrht. gigantic dam is locatedN. and is 1100 feet longrds of masonry. It createsmiles and provides for thefeet of water. This is ob-137 square miles, and is used,k River at its 12-foot niin-on, the water being let out It vill ae-on thein this BUILDING AND ENGINEERING NEWS Wednesday, Jan. 26, laying Cone In the construction of the Bakers-field-McKittiick road as a ConcreteKoad. Kerti County has followed theexample set by the Sate of Californiaand of several southern counties. Thisroad, which is Division 5 of Section 2of the Kern County Roads, is 16 feetwide and 5 inches thick, and amountsto 77,915 suare yards of cement con-crete. The county the ce-ment, which in this case was GoldenGate Cement: the asphaltic road oiland the stone screenings. .V few extracts from the specifica-tions will show the class of work re-quired: COHcreic Wi Llit ^vitli RHllininoii.«fiiK Surface. 11. Before the concrete pavement islaid, the roadbed shall be graded to atrue cross-section, conformingr to sriven by the engineer and called for on the plans. Itshall then be watered, and rolled witha roller weighing- not less than ten(10) tons, until the surface is hardand unyielding. The width to he rolledshall include not less than one foot o
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