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not have been feasible 20 years ago,” says Mims, “because the type of equipment necessary to per- form the work was not available. Now because of Oroville Dam, the highly sophisticated construc- tion equipment is on the market.”3 BIG Magazine continued to cite ‘more than 1.5 million railroad cars made the trip from the tailing dump to the dam. The railroad handled more than 300 million gross tons of cobblestone’. At the time, Oroville Dam was considered one of the marvels of the heavy construction industry.
Machine control technology used on the Oroville Dam spillway project
TECHNOLOGY AT OROVILLE TODAY
Technology has come a long way since then and Kiewit’s jobsite reflects that. So does Peterson’s level of product support. Computers have changed the way the world works, and certainly how Pe- terson supports its customers. From parts order- ing and equipment diagnostics to communications and smart tractors, computer technology has com- pletely transformed how we do business.
3 “Oroville Dam”, Goodyear’s BIG magazine, July 1967: Vol 23, No 3, p4
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