
Feats of Engineering -- Hoover Dam from the Mike O'Callaghan - Pat Tillman Bypass Bridge

by Darin Volpe
Title
Feats of Engineering -- Hoover Dam from the Mike O'Callaghan - Pat Tillman Bypass Bridge
Artist
Darin Volpe
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Since the 1930s, US Route 93 snaked down the Nevada side of Black Canyon and crossed the Colorado River over Hoover Dam to Arizona. The massive dam was built between 1931 and 1936 and was the largest U.S. Government construction project up to that time. Enough concrete was used to build a road from San Francisco to New York City.
Construction on the Highway 93 bypass from which this photo was taken took five years, from 2005 to 2010 - the same amount of time it took to build the dam itself.
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August 3rd, 2019
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