 | 726.4 feet - height of the dam |
| 5 feet - The depth of cement poured on each level of construction.
 | No one actually died by being smothered by cement. |
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| 6,600,000 tons - Weight of the dam (give or take) |
| 45,000 psi - water pressure at the base of the dam |
| 4.3 million yards3 - amount of concrete in the dam |
| 5 years - time allowed by the gov. to complete the dam |
| 3 years - actual time it took to build |
| 1 year - time it took for Lake Mead to fill up |
| 9.303 billion - gallons of water in Lake Mead |
| 3 million - approximate amount of HP produced by the generators |
| 2.074 Giga Watts - amount of power generated
| what the heck is a giga-watt? (1 billion watts) |
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| 0 watts - amount of energy sent to Las Vegas
| That's right, they don't use any of the power. |
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| 96 - number of industrial fatalities during construction
| none were buried in the concrete |
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| 3.5 seconds - how fast the dam could fill an olympic size swimming pool. |
