https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks A great effort by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to lift the United States out of the Great Depression en-us 2022-06-02 05:17:25 UTC 2022-06-06 05:30:19 UTC hello@padlet.com pramilaa2 https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2208516709 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.  ]]> 2022-06-02 05:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2208516709 pramilaa2 https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2208516915 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. 

]]> 2022-06-02 05:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2208516915 pramilaa2 https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2208529090 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. ]]> 2022-06-02 06:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2208529090 pramilaa2 https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2208544324  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

]]> 2022-06-02 06:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2208544324 pramilaa2 https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2211695886 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/)]]> 2022-06-06 02:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2211695886 pramilaa2 https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2211719149 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)]]> 2022-06-06 03:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/pramilaa2/Bookmarks/wish/2211719149