"Despite a lot of back-and-forth, Roosevelt's Cabinet really wanted to acknowledge the former president and they fought hard to get it through." As the Hoover Dam was built to control water use ...

High Scalers drill into the canyon wall 500 feet above the Colorado River in Black Canyon at the Hoover Dam site ... Among them: that clean water and flush toilets be provided, that ice water ...

THE completion, just announced, of the great concrete structure originally known as the Boulder Dam, but afterwards officially designated the Hoover Dam ... the flood water of the Colorado ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on ... Harding. Hoover was present at many of the early meetings that focused on how water would be ...

Food and drinks are sold at the Hoover Dam Café, an American-style cafeteria with takeaway options. Or bring your own food and beverages and eat outdoors while enjoying the view. Only water is ...

From the top of Hoover Dam ... Turbines in the dam’s generator room provide power for more than 1 million people.Credit: iStock Some water does get in, however. Every tunnel within the dam ...

plus a tunnel drilled in the 1930s and a platform that sits on top of a 30-foot-wide water pipe. Both on-site guided tours include stops inside the power plant, but only the Hoover Dam Tour offers ...