Jeffrey Zuehlke - The Hoover Dam
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Zuehlke Jeffrey, 1968
The Hoover Dam / by Jeffrey Zuehlke.
p. cm. (Lightning Bolt BooksTMFamous Places)
Includes index.
ISBN 9780822594086 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
1. Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)HistoryJuvenile literature. I. Title.
TC557.5.H6Z84 2010
627'.820979313dc22 2008031245
Manufactured in the United States of America
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structure? This is Hoover Dam.
Hoover Dam is one of the
largest dams in the world. It is
very important. It sends power
and water to many people.
water in
rivers like
this one.
mighty Colorado River. It
keeps the river from causing
floods. The dam holds the
water in a huge lake.
flow of the Colorado
River. A lake lies
behind the dam.
where water is held for later
use). It is named Lake Mead.
People use Lake Meads
water in many important
ways.
man-made lake in the
United States.
water in their homes.
depend on Lake
Mead for water.
for their crops. Watering
crops is called irrigation.
Hoover Dam do?
Lake Mead helps
crops grow.
electricity. Water
runs through tunnels
inside the dam. The
water spins giant
machines called
generators.
water spins
generators
inside Hoover
Dam.
power (power produced by
moving water). The spinning
generators create electricity for
people to use.
the generators lights
up Hoover Dam at night.
the southwestern
United States.
Nevada and Arizona.
to people in Utah, Nevada,
Arizona, and California. The
dams generators also produce
electricity for these people.
power plants (shown above). The power
plants are at the base of the dam.
used to be dry desert. Very
little rain falls near Lake
Mead. People couldnt live
or farm on the land.
tried to grow crops in
the desert. But the
land was too dry.
there was too much of it!
Every spring, the Colorado
River caused huge floods. It
covered the land with water.
on the roof of
their house after
floodwaters have
covered their land.
quickly. Farmers couldnt use
it. So the U.S. government
decided to build Hoover Dam
to control the rivers flow.
huge job. No one had ever
built such a large dam before.
by ropes help build
Hoover Dam.
from all
over the
United
States came
to work on
Hoover Dam.
thousand people
worked on the
dam. They started
in 1931. It took
them five years to
finish the job.
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