Shasta Dam: A Tour Through Time
Conveyor Belt Over twelve million tons of gravel would be needed to build the massive dam, and a good supply was found along the Sacramento River in Redding, California. To transport all that gravel, the world''s longest conveyor belt was built to deliver the gravel to the old mining town of Coram, just downstream of the dam site. The belt was an amazing miles long and operated 24 hours a