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Collection: Glover (Robert E.) Papers Author: Glover, Robert E. (Robert Ellsworth) Title: 1946
Date: 1946
File Name: WREG02706.pdf Date Transcribed: January 2021 Editors: T. Barker
Transcription Platform: Microsoft Word BEGIN TRANSCRIPTION 1946 Robert E Glover Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Colorado
Leave Denver Mar 12 1946 at 7:29 AM Speedometer 29350. Stayed at Albuquerque at Central Auto Camp night of Mar 12 1946. ($4.00 for 4 people McHenry, T Gossett, Newton, Glover) Speedometer 29864. Left Albuquerque for Holbroke Ariz. at 4:45 AM. Went from Holbroke to Globe. Dinner in Globe. Arrived in Phoenix at about 4:30 PM 3-13-46 Speedometer 30296. (distance from Denver 946 miles) Stayed in private home night of Mar 13 1946.
Mar 14 1946
Went to Stewart Mtn. dam with McHenry and Raymond Hill. Saw concrete in dam and powerhouse. Took pictures of dam. Weather cool, rainy. Before leaving met Lawson, Orme, Rowe, Neiswander of the SRVWUA and Sims, Larson, Wirtz, Nixon at the USBR office. Mr Hill believes dam was not granted (Stewart Mtn).
Stewart Mtn Dam.
Opening at west end of arch at top of dam 1.25 inches at DS side. Closed at US Side. (1.25 inches measured in curb at end of thrust block. Picture at 3.0’) Arch rings tight against thrust block on DS side 20’ down from roadway. (Range finder)
Joint 1 1.05” DS 1.07” US 2 0.15” DS 0.06” US 3 0.42” DS 0.25” US 4 0.27+0.16 DS 0.30 US 5 0.60” DS 0.95” US
0 1.25” DS closed west end of arch
At east end of arch cracks are aloud on downstream face about 20 feet below top of roadway (same as on west end) Arch ring on east end of dam tight at upstream side against thrust block from top to bottom. REG Mar 15 1946 (Friday)
Note: Crack between powerhouse and dam open about 1 ½ inch about 4 feet above transformer floor level. REG 3-16-46
[Diagram of Stewart Mountain Dam] Mar 15 1946
Conference with McHenry Raymond Hill and Ryland in the forenoon on drilling program for the Stewart Mountain Dam. Went to the dam in the afternoon with McHenry and Ryland to study distribution of cracking. Returned to the San Carlos Hotel in the evening. The hole schedule tentatively decided upon it. 10” dia holes.
One vertical hole on each thrust block. Drill for 2 weeks or until through block. One vertical hole near each abutment at the arch. Drill for two weeks or until 50 ft down.
6” dia holes.
One along horizontal crack in power house. Nine Horizontally in upstream face in blocks c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k at about spillway level. Two in arch near each thrust block and at
About the present water level of 1449.25 one to be drilled horizontally in from the upstream face and one to be drilled in horizontally in the downstream face. These to go in about 12 feet. The nine upper holes to go in about 8 feet. None to go through the dam. REG 3-16-45 (Saturday)
Mar 16 1946 (Saturday)
Went to Stewart Mountain dam with McHenry and Enos Ryland to make further study of cracking. Drill crew got drill operating at about elevation 1452 on upstream face3 of dam near west abutment and took a 6” dia core from arch ring before quitting time. Returned to Phoenix to the San Carlos hotel in the evening.
Notes: Crack between dam and on interior wall of the power house is open about ½ inch at a point about 4 feet above the operating floor. Reservoir water surface elevation about 1450. Power plant generating about 1700 KW on one unit with gate at 1:00. Two balanced valves operating. Water rising slightly.
[Diagram of Stewart Mtn Dam] Mar 17 1946 (Sunday)
Went to Horse Mesa dam with McHenry and Enos Ryland in Govt auto 11337. Operators on duty in the power plant were Butler and Bartee. There are 3-GE units rated at 10000 KW at 0.90 PF 11100 KVA each continuous at 60 degree rise. 300 RPM 25 cycles per second. There is no draft tube surge trouble. There is a little oscillation of the gases on the first and second units. Gates were set at 0.90.
Saw dam in powerhouse at base on left abutment (looking downstream) and from the top. There is a horizontal crack or joint 20 or 30 feet above the roadway near the base at the dam at the left abutment from which water seeps. Some small plants bearing red flowers are growing in the joining. The rest of the dam appears to be in a very good shape. There are some time deposits from previous seepage but no evidence of the alkali reaction.
(Ryland believes Oro Grande and Riverside cements were used in this dam. Mostly Oro Grande). The joints at the top of the dame are tight and there are only a few cracks in the parapet walls. The reservoir was nearly full (water was probably about five feet below top of the gates). I expressed the opinion that no holes should be drilled for cores in this dam except in the law stressed area near the base of the left abutment. We went up to the valve house and climbed down the ladder to the top of the spillway gate to see the lining in the 30 ft dia tunnel (put in by USBR in 1937). I also went a little way down in the spiral stairway on the downstream face of the dam. The concrete everywhere appeared to be sound. REG Mar 22 1946
Mar 18 1946 (Monday)
Visited Mormon Flat and Roosevelt dams with McHenry in Govt Auto 11337. Keys to the gates at the Mormon Flat Dam were obtained from Mr Lancaster and returned to him before leaving. Mr WC Telford was on duty at the power plant. The Mormon Flat Generator (there is only one) is rated at 8750 KVA 214 RPM 11000 volt 460 AMT. 80% PF, 3 phase, 25 cycles. The manufacturer is Westinghouse. This is the generator with the bent shaft. The bend is in the portion above the Kingsbury thrust bearing. There are vibrations in the power house and the dam but they are too rapid to be caused by the bent shaft. (the operator says they cease when the generator field is cut off) He has trouble with draft tube surge. The oscillation shows on the gages but as two oscillations of different frequencies appear to be present it was not possible
to determine either frequency. The dam was inspected from the power house floor level (1500 elev) and the top of the dam. There was only one small diagonal crack in the downstream face of the dam.
Evidence of the alkali reaction was absent. (Ryland believes their dam to have been constructed with El Toro cement). (pictures were taken)
REG Mar 22 1946 Mar 18 1946 (Monday)
The Roosevelt dam was seen from the top and from the power house level. There are two cracks across the top of the dam, one about ¼” wide and one about 1/16” wide. They show up in the stone parapet walls and in the form of a dirt filled channel in the roadway surface. The wide crack is near the upstream stone house, the narrow crack is near the opposite end of the dam. A few other hair cracks are present. The stone work and the dam as a whole appears to be in good condition. Pictures were taken.
REG Mar 22 1946 Mar 19 1946 (Tuesday)
McHenry and I conferred in the morning with Tom Neiswander, Vaud Lawson, and Mr Lawson.
Neiswander and Ryland are to go Thursday with a surveyor to Stewart Mountain dam to plan survey to determine the upstream movement. Larson is to provide the surveyor. Mr Lawson is anxious to get the drill hop at elev 1452 plugged so water can be raised on the Stewart Mtn. dam.
Drove to Parker Dam California in the afternoon with McHenry in Government car 11337 and obtained room No 5 in Bureau dormitory for the night. Conferred with Mr McWilliams and Parmentier.
Mar 20 1946
Went to the Copper Basin dam at the Metropolitan Water District with McHenry and Deputy Sheriff Stringfellow in a MND car. Crossed Copper Basin lake in about to get to the dam. The reservoir was nearly full. A sketch of the cracks on the downstream face is shown on the opposite page. This dam is provided with a solid parapet wall on the upstream face and a pipe railing on the downstream side of the walkway. There was a horizontal crack just below the parapet wall on the upstream face intersected by vertical cracks where the blocks join. Took lunch at the MWD Mess hall at Gene Wash Station. REG Mar 24 1946
(35 mm photos were taken at upstream and downstream faces) [Diagram of Copper Basin Dam]
Mar 20 1946
Went to Gene Wash dam with McHenry and Stringfellow. Horizontal cracks were visible at each lift joint (50 lifts) for the first 13 lift joints counting from the walkway on top of the dam cracks at the vertical block joints were open through the number of lifts shown in the sketch on the opposite page. Diagonal cracks were present near the abutments as shown. These cracks did not cross the horizontal cracks at the lift lines. The upstream face was difficult to observe. The cracks on the downstream face were observed from the side of the canyon with an 8x glass. The crack in the gravity abutment at the core location is about 0.27 inches wide and may be due to an upstream force exerted on the gravity block by the arches due to alkali expansion. 35 mm pictures were taken of the downstream face
REG Mar 24 1946
[Diagram of Gene Wash Dam] Mar 20 1946
Returned to the Gene Wash station and saw the pumping plant. Met operators Russel and Peavey and Engineer Walsh. From the records stating Gene No 3 unit causes a frequency drop of about 0.20 cycle per second. The voltage is said to drop to 6400 to 6600 from 6900 volts. No 1 at Hayfield causes about 0.18 cycle per second drop due to starting. There is more drop for the first unit than for the second unit. After supper at the Bureau mess hall at Park Dam, McHenry and I went to the Parker dam to see the cracked concrete in the piers and railings on top of the dam and later went into the power plant.
Messrs. Curtis and Parsons were on duty. They apparently do not have trouble with draft tube surge but there is a correlation trouble at certain part gates.
Mr McWilliams says the plant can now produce about 104000 KW. Returned to Room No 5 at the Guest house.
REG Mar 24 1946 Mar 21 1946
Went to the Parker Power Plant with McHenry and Palmeter to see cracking in walls and floor. These cracks are in the floor which forms the top at the draft tube and are adjacent to the wall separating the tailrace and the interior of the power plant. The cracks are parallel to the wall, that is, they run
lengthwise of the power plant except near the ends where they tend to run diagonally. The floor cracks are seeping water in two places and white incrustations are present. At the upstream end the four cracks join with a diagonal crack in the end wall and this joins with a diagonal crack crossing the exterior corner of the floor above. The availability of having good photographs taken of these cracks for record purposes was discussed with Palmeter. The floor above was cracked diagonally across the exterior corner at the ends. All of these cracks are supposed to be due to expansion caused by the
March 21 1946 alkali reaction.
Talked to Mr Fink about difficulties of supporting scroll cases. (The man did the setting and control of jacking on the floor cases at Parker) They used jacks with plain bearings in the heads for the first three units and had trouble due to twisting the supporting columns with the jacks. On the last scroll case installed (No 42) They used ball bearing jacks. This was an improvement. They could not control the speed ring at the large end of the scroll. The bottom would stay OK but the top would sag. They put intermediate supports on all the scrolls. The proposed scheme of using a single horizontal girder in place of the rings was described to him. He thinks the rings would be better than the horizontal girder.
Returned to Parker Dam and ate lunch at the mess hall. Pictures were taken of the Parker Dam in the morning. Examination at the downstream face shows the cracks growing fewer as the
Mar 21 1946
Water level is approached.
In the afternoon McHenry and I drove to Prescott, Arizona after a conference with McWilliams. Spent night at the Hassayampa Hotel at Prescott. Speedometer reading when leaving Parker dam 31034. Mar 22 1946
McHenry and I drove from Prescott, Arizona to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Spent night at the Saudia Motor Camp.
Mar 23 1946
McHenry and I drove from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Denver, Colorado. I arrived at my place at 6:20 PM. Speedometer read 32088. Car 11337.
REG Mar 24 1946
Robert E Glover Bureau of Reclamation
Denver, Colorado Trip to Ross Dam
Leave Denver 7:25 AM Aug. 10 1946 Arrive Portland 5:00 PM Aug 11 1946 Leave Portland Ore. 11:30 PM Aug 11 1946 Arrive Seattle Wash. 6:45 AM Aug 12 1946 Leave Seattle Wash. 10:05 AM Aug 12 1946 Arrive at Ross Dam 5:00 PM Aug 12 1946 Leave Ross Dam 1:30 PM Aug 13 1946 Arrive Newhalem 4:30 PM Aug 13 1946 Leave Newhalem 1:30 PM Aug 14 1946 Arrive Seattle about 5:30 PM Aug 14 1946 Leave Seattle 12:01 PM Aug 15 1946
Arrive Portland, Oregon 4:35 PM Aug 15 1946 Leave Portland 6:30 PM Aug 15 1946
En Route to Denver Aug 16 1946
Arrive Denver, Colorado 8:30 AM Aug 17 1946 Persons met
At Seattle: Messrs. Hoffman, Wolfendale, Schindler, Graves, Orme, Decker, Pettit.
At Ross Dam: Messrs Shevling, Faulkner, of city of Seattle and Messrs Henderson, Jones and Harris of the contractors crew.
At Diablo Power Plant: Forsander At the Newhalem plant Garretson At Newhalem: Currier
Arrive 6:45 AM Aug 12 1946 at Seattle, Washington. Met at train by Mr Pettit of Department of Lighting. Breakfast at the Mayflower hotel. At 10:05 AM left Seattle for Ross dam in two cars. Pettit, Wolfendale, and Glover in one and Hoffman, Kirn and Winter in the other. Before leaving Seattle, Kirn conferred with Wolfendale and Graves about centers for top of Ross dam and telephoned L Scrivner in Denver to get data to McConaughy in Denver office for Laying out spillway. Took lunch at _____ . Left cars at
Newhalem and proceeded by railroad to Diablo power house, went up incline and proceeded to Diablo dam. From Diablo dam we went by boat to Ross dam arriving at 5:00 PM Aug 12 1946. Here we met Charlie Sherling and Mr Faulkener. After supper we went to the Ross dam, saw the access tunnel and followed it to the valve house edit near the center of the dam.
Tunnel was dry and the concrete in the dam galleries showed no cracks. The gallery was dry except for water leaking from a pipe. Went from here to the mixing plant and saw a batch mixed by automatic
equipment. A “B” cylinder (6 in dia) was tested at age 1 year. Total load 273,000 lbs. Breaking strength 9660 lb/in squared. Returned to cabins and ate ice cream and cake at Mr and Messrs Shevlings’ place in honor of Mr Faulkner’s birthday. Got to bed at about 11:30 PM.
Got up at 6:00 AM Aug 13 1946 and went to breakfast at 7:00 AM. Then hiked to dam and took skip to take pictures for record and to see abutments. Landed at tunnels and went in to inspect rock. Messrs Hoffman, Wolfendale, Winter, Kirn, Glover in party. Went into tunnel nearly to the end. (there was a pool of water near the end) The roof dripped water at one place only. Rock looks sound and uniform. They were placing concrete forms in inlet. After dinner at camp, Winter and I went up to suspension bridge for further study
of dam and to take more pictures. At 1:30 PM took beat to return. Stopped at the Diablo dam and at the Diablo power plant. There are two 66500 KVA 1715 RPM units in the plant operating under 325 ft head in this plant. There is a Warren regulator in this plant. The governors are SM Smith Type E25. Most load control is by carrier current. Operators were Fallstrom and LaVerne. Returned to Newhalem by train arriving at about 4:30 PM. In the evening after supper, saw the gardens and the Gorge Power Plant in company with Messrs Frank Pettit and FD Kirn. There were three Westinghouse 33000 KVA
generators operating at 257 RPM in this plant. Operator Anderson. REG Aug 13 1946
On morning of August 14 1946 Messrs Glover and Kirn visited the Gorge diversion dam in company of Messrs Hoffman and Wolfendale. MESSRS Winter and Glover walked down to the old Nehalem plant. This plant has one 2500 KVA unit driven by two 425 (?) RPM Pelton units operated by two pts each. There are two Pelton governors operating jet splitters. At about 1:30 PM Messrs Winter, Glover and Kirn left for Seattle in two cars in company of Messrs Hoffman, Wolfendale and Pettit. En route visited the Superior Cement Co quarry and saw the Baker River dam. (the superior cement is used at Ross) Arrived at the Mayflower Hotel in Seattle at about 5:00 PM.
On the morning of August 15 1946, Messrs Winter and Glover went to the Department of Lighting offices to pick up Pullman reservations. We were taken to the station by Mr ER Schiller who took us over the Washington Lake floating bridge en route. Left Seattle at 12:01 PM and arrived at Denver at 8:30 AM August 17 1946. REG Aug 17 1946
Note: The American Falls dam was seen en route. REG Travel order dated July 25, 1946
Trip to Sacramento - California
Left Denver, Colorado April 26 1949 at 2:20 PM. Warnack, Kidder, Glover and Swain in the party. Arrived Sacramento at PM April 26 1949. Bus fare to Clune Hotel $0.86.
April 27 1949 Wednesday. Messrs Warnack, Glover and Swain and Kidder saw Mr Boke, Regional Director in the morning. From Mr Bake’s office we went to the conference room to confer with Messrs
Boden, Imrie, McGiness, Howland, Weinland, Blote, Tanner, Bryan, Morrison, and Kadie. The results of the Denver office analytical studies were summarized and details of the construction at Isleton were discussed.
April 28 1949 Thursday.
Spent the day in the Delta region with Weinland, Blote, Boden, Imrie, Morrison, Howland, Warnock, Kidder, Glover, Swain in party.
April 29. Friday.
Spent first part of day with Morrison and Tanner estimating salinities. In latter part of afternoon we went to the conference room to discuss results with Howland, Warnock, Kidder, Swain, Morrison and Tanner. REG 4/30/49
April 30 1949 Saturday
Went to see Delta Mendota canal and Tracy pumping plant with Warnock, Kidder, and Swain. We were taken over the work by Mr Wren. Later we returned to Sacramento by way of Stockton. Travel was by Government auto. REG 4/30/49
May 1 1949. Sunday. At Clunie Hotel in Sacramento.
May 2. Monday. Conferred with Bosson and Christensen of the Army and Silverthorne, McGinness, Weinland, Howland, Tanner, Morrison, Imrie, Warnock, Kidder, Swain, Hanson in the morning. In afternoon, Hanson, Tanner, Morrison and Glover conferred on salinity control. REG
May 3, 4, and 5, made supplementary computations and prepared a draft of a report. REG 5/5/49 May 6, 1949. Friday. Completed and signed the report in the morning. Jake Warnock went to Friant. Kidder went up Putah creek. REG 5/7/49
May 7 1949. Saturday - Returned to Denver with Swain by way of United Airlines flight 102 driving in Denver at 5:35 PM (due 5:05) (bus fare $0.86 at Sacramento) REG 5/6/49
Note: Those from the Sacramento office assisting with the computations made on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday May 3 ,4 and 5 1949 were Frank Howland, Jeff Weinland, Al Morrison, Vern Hanson, Tanner and one of Tanner’s assistants. REG May 8 1949
