Vallecito Dam Construction Project
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- Contractor's haul road
- Contractor's haul road from Borrow Pit No. 2 to embankment looking upstream from borrow pit station 33+50/11+60. Sprinkler truck seen going away from camera has just sprinkled near side of road., Original photo number: Pine R - 189
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- Counterforts for left wall of spillway inlet
- Counterforts for left wall of spillway inlet and gate structure. Wall in foreground is at station 5+00., Original photo number: Pine R - 376
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- Cross-section of embankment
- Downstream face of cut for additional cut-off trench at station 18+00, showing cross-section of embankment placed during 1938, and the source of each type of material., Original photo number: Pine R - 310
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- Cut-off trench
- Cut-off trench extending up right side of spillway cut at sta. 5+84. Refer to Pine R - 312., Original photo number: Pine R - 369
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- Cut-off trench awaiting embankment
- Cut-off trench excavation from sta. 20+00 to the river. A small section of embankment is shown in the immediate foreground. The remainder of the trench is being prepared to receive embankment., Original photo number: Pine R - 151
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- Cut-off trench, looking toward right abutment
- Cut-off trench, looking toward right abutment from sta. 33+50., Original photo number: Pine R - 230
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- Demonstration of Oshkosh-Southwest earth mover dumping
- Demonstration of Oshkosh-Southwest earth mover dumping., Original photo number: Pine R - 208
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- Demonstration of Oshkosh-Southwest earth mover loading
- Demonstration of Oshkosh-Southwest earth mover loading in the earth borrow pit., Original photo number: Pine R - 191
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- Dome of gate chamber
- Dome of gate chamber and base of stair shaft after forms were stripped., Original photo number: Pine R - 289
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- Downstream end of earth Borrow Pit
- Downstream end of the earth borrow pit. Dam is in background., Original photo number: Pine R - 211
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- Downstream side of additional cut-off trench
- Downstream side of additional cut-off trench showing sand pocket. Taken from axis at station 15+75., Original photo number: Pine R - 102
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- Downstream view in river channel
- Looking downstream in the river channel just prior to closing the temporary cofferdam. The box culvert seen at right center carried the flow of the river while the dam was completed., Original photo number: Pine R - 364