Hoover Dam

The Hoover Dam is built across the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona. On its completion in 1935 it was the largest concrete structure in the world, and its hydro-electric power station was the world's largest single producer of electricity. The dam - also known as the Boulder Dam - impounds Lake Mead. The Hoover Dam was named after Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States, who had in the 1920s chaired the commission that brought about the dam's construction.

Hoover Dam consists of 17 turbines, of which 9 are fed water by two towers on the Arizona side and 8 are fed water by towers on the Nevada side. Between 1986 and 1993The original turbines were all replaced with improvements. In 2022, due to a drought throughout the Southwest, the energy production declined 33% from its peak, and is expected to decline further.^[1]

The Hoover Dam produces enormous hydroelectric power, provides water for irrigation, and helps control flooding.

Just as liberals opposed the naming of National Airport in D.C. after the former President Ronald Reagan, liberals also opposed naming this Dam after President Herbert Hoover, even though the engineer Hoover was the driving force behind the project:^[2]

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On May 8, 1933, Harold Ickes, Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, decided that the name of the dam should be 'Boulder Dam', its original name. The reason for this was no doubt political. On April 30, 1947, the resolution renaming the dam back to Hoover Dam was passed by congress and signed by President Harry S Truman.

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• U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

1. ↑ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hoover-dam-power-production-down-33-official-says/ar-AAXPEPl?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=63bd816decdc432cb8f46e94f2216c4f
2. ↑ http://www.sunsetcities.com/hoover-dam/is_it_hoover_dam_or_boulder_dam.html