With construction on Boulder Dam now virtually complete, Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River is stepping into the engineering forefront.
Bids have just been opened by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for 4,220,000 barrels of cement for the Grand Coulee Dam. This mammoth order is said to be more cement than was used in the whole Boulder Dam, exclusive of the power plants.
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