11 CRAZY FACTS ABOUT THE HOOVER DAM!
FACTS ABOUT THE HOOVER DAM 1. The Hoover Dam was a huge undertaking. The Hoover Dam, which is based between Nevada and Arizona on the Colorado River, took five years to build. The project began in 1931, and was finally complete by 1936 – the handiwork of Henry J Kaiser, Gordon Kaufmann and many talented architects and engineers. 2. It was huge once finished, too! At the time – by its completion in 1936 – the Hoover Dam was regarded as the biggest hydro-electric power provider of its kind, and it was even regarded as the largest concrete build on the planet at the time, too. 3. Just check out these stats! It’s seriously huge. The Hoover Dam measures a staggering 221.3 m, or 726.4 feet, tall. They weren’t kidding when they said it broke records! 4. It wasn’t cheap to finance, either. The US government spent more than a pretty penny to get the Hoover Dam up and running. In fact, it’s said to have cost them a loan of around $140 million, total! They recouped this throug...