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BBrief description of the project:
Project type: Dams, electricity, Flood and Erosion Control, Infrastructure and Utilities, Water supply.
Agency: Bureau of Reclamation (BuRec), Public Works Administration (PWA), Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Started: 1931
Completed: 1935
The Hoover Dam is located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.
Address:
Hoover Dam
Boulder City, NV 89005
Coordinates: 36.015556, -114.737778
(https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/hoover-dam-boulder-city-nv/)

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Hoover Dam was completed with New Deal funds from the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1935. The dam is 726 feet tall and 600 feet at its base and originally it cost $165 million (https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Great-Depressions-The-Top-Five-Public-Works-Projects-of-the-New-Deal)

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The overall goal/purpose of the project was to end The Great Depression.
Specific goals of the project include,

To create work for thousands of people who came from all over the country.

To control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power, it was authorized by Congress in 1928.

Outcomes

Hoover Dam provided water to irrigate farms

It prevented flooding

It also provided water and electricity (power) to the neighboring areas.

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Hoover Dam was built between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thousands of workers were involved in and cost over one hundred lives. It was named after President Herbert Hoover in bills passed by Congress during its construction. But Roosevelt administration named it Boulder Dam, however, the Hoover Dam name was restored by Congress in 1947.

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Kwak, Y. H., Walewski, J., Sleeper, D., & Sadatsafavi, H. (2014). What can we learn from the Hoover Dam project that influenced modern project management?. International Journal of Project Management, 32(2), 256-264.

Nevada Hoover Dam - Boulder City NV. Retrieved on June 5, 2022. Available at: https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/hoover-dam-boulder-city-nv/

Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved on June 4, 2022. Available at: https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/

Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved on June 5, 2022. Available at: https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/faqs/powerfaq.html

Hoover Dam. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam

Kennedy, R. (2018). Purpose of the Hoover Dam. Retrieved on June 5, 2022. Available at: https://traveltips.usatoday.com/purpose-hoover-dam-62077.html.

Starr, K. (1993). Watering the land: the Colorado River project. Southern California Quarterly, 75(3/4), 303-332.

The Great Depression Top Five Public Works Projects of the New Deal (Bill Holland, 2017). Retrieved on June 5, 2022. Available at: https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Great-Depressions-The-Top-Five-Public-Works-Projects-of-the-New-Deal

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The Hoover Dam is one of the United States most famous dams and, standing 726 feet high, it's also the nation's third largest. More than 21,000 men labored to construct the dam between 1931 and its opening in 1935, of whom 96 died. When President Herbert Hoover authorized the project, he based his decision on the dam's ability to irrigate farmland, provide a reliable water supply for southern California and control the flow of the Colorado River.

Irrigation

Before the dam was built, the southwest had several areas where farming was impossible due to the lack of water. The Imperial Canal project, begun in 1900, took water from the Colorado south towards the Mexican border and showed that irrigation made settlement possible. By 1905, about 67,000 acres of land could be cultivated due to the canal's irrigation, allowing the towns of Calexico, Imperial and Mexicali to be established. In all, about 12,000 people lived on the irrigated land. Today, the dam irrigates more than one million acres in the United States and a further half million acres in Mexico, enabling those areas to produce fruit, cotton and grain.

Water Supply

The authorities also hoped the dam could provide a more reliable supply of water for towns and cities than had been possible before its construction. The resultant water enabled the development of Las Vegas and other planned communities in southern Nevada, including Green Valley and Summerlin. Today the dam provides water for communities in Nevada, California and Arizona, including Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Diego, supporting an estimated 18 million people.

Flood Control

Damming the Colorado removed the danger of flooding from the area below the dam. In the early years of the 20th century, flooding was a regular hazard for local farmers and flooding in the Imperial Valley between 1903 and 1907 led to extensive crop losses, disastrous for individual farmers and for the local community. With the dam in place, authorities could control the flow of the river downstream and prevent floods.

Hydroelectric Power

Hydroelectric power was not part of the original plan for the dam but between 1939 and 1949 a power plant was inserted into the structure. When it was installed, the plant was the largest of its kind in the world. The design features 17 turbines located at the base of the dam, generating more than 4 billion kilowatt hours annually. The majority of this energy - 56 percent - goes to customers in southern California, with 25 percent going to Nevada.

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The Hoover Dam is one of the United States most famous dams and, standing 726 feet high, it's also the nation's third largest. More than 21,000 men labored to construct the dam between 1931 and its opening in 1935, of whom 96 died.

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Effects of Hoover Dam on local communities and States

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Effects of Hoover Dam on local communities and States

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The Hoover Dam is one of the largest engineering and construction projects of the 20th Century. President Hoover, a former mining engineer, upgraded the dam as a part of federal efforts to combat the Great Depression and tame the infertile West. It was completed in 1936 as one of the largest infrastructure projects ever built in the United States. It was completed two years ahead of schedule and under budget despite economic, political, technical, and organizational obstacles (Starr, K., 1993; Kwak et al., 2014).
Hydropower: Hoover Dam generates approximately 4 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year which is enough to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, Arizona, and California (https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/faqs/powerfaq.html). Out of the energy, approximately 56% is used by the customers in Southern California, and about 25% goes to Nevada.
Irrigation: With the construction of the Hoover Dam, it can irrigate over one million acres of the United States and around half a million acres in Mexico, for the production of fruit, cotton, and grain (Kennedy, 2018).
Water supply: The dam can provide drinking water for communities in Nevada, California, and Arizona, including Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Diego, which support approximately 18 million people (Kennedy, 2018).
Flood Control: The construction of a dam in Colorado removed the danger of flooding from the area below the dam (Kennedy, 2018).
Roadway and tourism: There are two lanes of automobile traffic across the top of the dam, which served as the Colorado River crossing for U.S. Route 93. However, due to the security concern on September 11, the Hoover Dam Bypass project was expedited.
Environmental impact: The construction of this dam has a great impact on the Colorado River Delta. It causes the decline of the estuarine ecosystem.
Recognition: It was recognized as a National Civil Engineering Landmark in 1984.