Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department of the Interior, its engineers and geologists to the contrary [April 26], Colorado River water backed up by the Glen Canyon Dam will endanger Rainbow Natural Bridge. The bridge and its foundations are sandstone, and sandstone absorbs water irrespective of planned diversion dams and tunnels. As a member of the discovery party, Aug. 14, 1909, I am loath to see that masterpiece destroyed, whatever the excuse...
...wonder the U.S. won't give a cent to help save the 3,000-year-old Temple of Abu Simbel [April 12]. Right now Colorado River water caught by Glen Canyon Dam is rushing toward Rainbow Bridge-the most beautiful and largest of all known natural stone arches, a natural wonder of the world carved by nature long before Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II thought of praising himself with a temple carved by slaves. Congress vowed to save the bridge in the 1956 Colorado River Storage Act. But the promised protection facilities have never been built. Maybe the nations that...
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), the U.N. agency in charge of saving Abu Simbel, rejected the French dam in favor of a more imaginative Italian proposal to cut the whole temple free of the rock and lift it to the top of the cliff by hydraulic jacks. Once raised above the rising water, the temple would be safe indefinitely, and it would have an attractive site on the rim of the great new artificial lake. The lifting would cost $42 million plus $24 million for finishing...
Three of the world's richest nations, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Britain, have thus far given nothing. The Russians claim that their money is already helping Egypt to build the High Dam; someone else, they say, should take care of Abu Simbel. The U.S. apparently believes that attempts to raise the temple would destroy it. and anyway. $42 million would only begin to cover the cost of jacking...
...Membrane Dam. While the fate of Abu Simbel hung in the balance, two cut-rate schemes were proposed to save it. British Movie Producer William MacQuitty. backed by a group of London engineers and architects, proposed building a thin ''membrane" dam around the temple. When muddy Nile water rises outside, pressure will be balanced as the space that the dam encloses will be filled to the same height with clear, filtered water treated so that it will not damage the temple's stonework. Visitors would be able to admire the temple from submerged portholes reached by elevators...