Now
NowWhen the Glen Canyon Dam was first being built they had to install a coffer dam to divert the river around where the construction of the dam was to be.
In order to get the special concrete to the special sections in the dam, they had to build a batch house about the middle ways down the northern part of the canyon wall. This batch house mixed the concrete, and then they used a railroad just outside the batch plant to haul the concrete to big buckets that dumped the concrete into the special sections on the dam.
The following is several pictures of the making of the dam. Pouring concrete in sections to complete the dam.
A picture of the bridge, with the concrete bucket towers in the background.
Picture of the dam about half completed.
Picture of trucks taking concrete pipe into the excess tunnel to go down to bottom of canyon.
A arial view of the dam about three fourth completed.
They completed the dam after I left in 1963. Today it has a 186 mile lake behind it. Recreation is the main sport. House A bottom shot of the coffer dam, looking up towards the bridge.
A sunrise in Page.
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