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The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a major dam as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936. Since then numerous other hydroelectric power stations have surpassed the 1,000 MW threshold, most often through the expansion of existing hydroelectric facilities.
List of dams and reservoirs in Maine; List of dams and reservoirs in Maryland; List of dams and reservoirs in Michigan; List of dams and reservoirs in Minnesota; List of locks and dams of the Upper Mississippi River; List of dams and reservoirs in Missouri; List of dams in the Missouri River watershed; List of dams and reservoirs in Montana
Following is a complete list of the approximately 340 dams owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation as of 2008. [ 1 ] The Bureau was established in July 1902 as the "United States Reclamation Service" and was renamed in 1923.
The Colorado, Columbia and Sacramento–San Joaquin river systems contain the greatest number of tall dams. In the eastern U.S., tall dams are less common because of the lesser vertical relief. The tallest dam in the eastern U.S. is 480-foot (150 m) Fontana Dam in North Carolina, which ranks 20th in height among all U.S. dams.
From 2013 to 2023, 283 dams in the U.S. experienced some kind of failure, according to data provided by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials and analyzed by NBC News this summer.
4 North and Central America. Toggle North and Central America subsection. 4.1 Belize. 4.2 Canada. 4.3 Costa Rica. ... The following is a list of reservoirs and dams, ...
Lake Powell, impounded by Glen Canyon Dam, is the second-largest reservoir in the U.S.. This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States, including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3).