USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A total of 21, 000 men worked on the dam with an average of 3, 500 and a maximum of 5, 218 daily, which occurred in June 1934. The average monthly payroll was $500, 000. What construction work was necessary before operations started at the dam site?

Detailed explanation-2: -Hoover Dam was built between 1931 and 1936, and those five years were not without disaster. Reports from the construction site list 96 deaths due to accidents. In addition, 42 workers were reported to have died from illnesses while the dam was being built.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although construction for the dam began in 1931, plans for the Hoover Dam started before that time. The US Bureau of Reclamation devised the dam. The Bureau of Reclamation created plans for the dam’s construction to make it one of the largest and most complex structures of its time upon completion.

Detailed explanation-4: -Completed in 1936, Hoover Dam was built to provide irrigation water and hydroelectric power, and to control seasonal flooding of the Colorado River, which made downstream settlement possible.