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Hoover Dam and Shasta Dam

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Difference between Hoover Dam and Shasta Dam

Hoover Dam vs. Shasta Dam

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam before its construction) is a concrete arch-gravity dam across the Sacramento River in Northern California in the United States.

Similarities between Hoover Dam and Shasta Dam

Hoover Dam and Shasta Dam have 14 things in common (in Unionpedia): Arch-gravity dam, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Cofferdam, Colorado River, Estuary, Frank Crowe, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Grand Coulee Dam, Great Depression, John L. Savage, Kilowatt hour, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, United States Bureau of Reclamation, Water in California.

Arch-gravity dam

An arch-gravity dam or arched dam is a dam with the characteristics of both an arch dam and a gravity dam.

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

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Cofferdam

A cofferdam (also called a coffer) is an enclosure built within, or in pairs across, a body of water and constructed to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Frank Crowe

Francis Trenholm Crowe (–) was the chief engineer of the Hoover Dam.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Grand Coulee Dam

Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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John L. Savage

John Lucian Savage (December 25, 1879 – December 28, 1967) was an American civil engineer.

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Kilowatt hour

The kilowatt hour (symbol kWh, kW⋅h or kW h) is a unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1998 that operated in the Western United States.

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United States Bureau of Reclamation

The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and formerly the United States Reclamation Service (not to be confused with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement), is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.

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Water in California

California's interconnected water system serves over 30 million people and irrigates over of farmland.

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Hoover Dam and Shasta Dam Comparison

Hoover Dam has 162 relations, while Shasta Dam has 85. As they have in common 14, the Jaccard index is 5.67% = 14 / (162 + 85).

References

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