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    the dam as "Boulder Dam" or as "Boulder Canyon Dam", even though the proposed site had shifted to Black Canyon. The Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928 (BCPA)...
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    and also had the world's largest hydroelectric power plant. The Boulder Canyon Project Act also authorized the All-American Canal, which was built as a permanent...
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    right to 1.5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water. The 1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act provided a way for the nation to move ahead with construction...
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    All-American Canal was authorized along with the Hoover Dam by the 1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act and built in the 1930s by the United States Bureau of Reclamation...
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    "Boulder Canyon Project Act" (PDF). December 21, 1928. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2011. The Evolution of the Flood Control Act of...
    61 KB (5,416 words) - 13:30, 8 June 2024
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    The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18...
    137 KB (14,012 words) - 19:53, 25 June 2024
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    at Glen Canyon was made in 1924, in addition to studies for locations at Black and Boulder Canyons lower on the Colorado, below Grand Canyon. These studies...
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  • the Cristero War. June 25 – Hoover signs the Boulder Canyon Project Act into law, funding the Boulder Dam. July 8 – Hoover appoints Dwight F. Davis as Governor-General...
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    War II. Lake Mead was the first National Recreation Area. The Boulder Canyon Project Act, passed in 1928, authorized the Bureau of Reclamation to construct...
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    all worked to maintain the project. The Boulder Canyon Project Act in 1928 would signal change for the Yuma Project. The Act authorized the construction...
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    Grand Canyon National Monument by President Theodore Roosevelt (Presidential Proclamation #794) 1919 Designation of Grand Canyon National Park by an act of...
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    in the canyon. Recreational activities in Little Cottonwood Canyon include hiking, camping, fishing, mountain biking, rock climbing, Bouldering, skiing...
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  • 1928: Reed–Jenkins Act, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 70–574, 45 Stat. 954 December 21, 1928: Boulder Canyon Project Act (Hoover Dam), Pub...
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    and Boulder Basins, of which Virgin Basin is the largest. Virgin Canyon connects Gregg Basin to Virgin Basin, and the much narrower Boulder Canyon links...
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    Finders Act in late 1924 sought to resolve some of these problems.[citation needed] In 1928 Congress authorized the Boulder Canyon (Hoover Dam) Project, and...
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    President Hoover signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act, authorizing the expenditure of $165 million for the construction of the Boulder Dam. Japan ratified the...
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    and several large dams, including the Glen Canyon Dam in Utah, which created Lake Powell. Other projects created from the CRSP included the Flaming Gorge...
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    Reed–Jenkins Act December 21, 1928: Boulder Canyon Project Act (Hoover Dam) December 22, 1928: Color of Title Act January 19, 1929: Hawes–Cooper Act February...
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    The earliest recorded flood in Boulder was the great flood of 1894 which came down Boulder Canyon. It wiped out Canyon Street, then known as Water Street...
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    Calvin Coolidge signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act approving the construction of Hoover Dam and the formation of Boulder City. Afterwards, on March...
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