Betcha y’all didn’t know 95

[953 nut 64,707]

April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating an agency called "Emergency Conservation Work." This would later be subsumed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), an innovative federally funded organization that put tens of thousands of Americans to work during the Great Depression on projects with environmental benefits as part of his administration’s “New Deal” plan for social and economic progress.

[ebinmaine 77,895]

29 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

 

Those camps/ living quarters are where many of our state & national parks exist today. 

The BBT and I and others stay at various former CCC locations nearly every year.  

 

Fascinating historical locations.  

[rmaynard 17,003]

Anyone who has driven the Blue Ridge Parkway has seen the beautiful stone walls along the roadway. My father joined the CCC in the late thirties and help to build those walls. 

[953 nut 64,707]

During the depression my father-in-law's family farm wasn't able to provide for everyone so he and his older brother Joined the CCC and were sent from southern Georgia to Arkansas to work on a couple of dam projects developing reservoirs and preventing seasonal floods. Though he was only 16 years old my FIL was a good cook and the CCC took full advantage of his skills. He loved to tell stories about the boys he worked with and how much they all learned about agriculture and construction as well as life in general.

[Ed Kennell 45,377]

Two gigantic CCC hydro electric projects that powered the West...Grand Coulee and Hoover Dams. 

   Happy to have worked with the US Bureau of Reclamation and the US Army Corp of Engineers to replace the old worn  hydro turbines.with high efficient fish friendly turbines.

[peter lena 9,802]

@953 nut  those era transitional  , works  were / are  incredible , been inside the  hoover  dam , turbine  , room and related , feed tubes . the upper road side  elevator  , like a phone booth  , sets the pace . opportunity  in the area ?  VALLEY OF FIRE  DRIVE , have to do it  ,  you are so insignificant !  waves of  rock / color formation . always had maps , related , what else to see ?  that  makes you search , pete  

[Ed Kennell 45,377]

A couple pics from inside these immense machines.  Sorry for the poor lighting.

 

Inside one of the Grand Coulee spiral cases.  Each one of these hydro turbines produces 1,000,000 hp.

 

 

Muddy Run pump turbine inlet.