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Kortes Dam (National ID # WY01294) is a dam in Carbon County, Wyoming. The concrete gravity dam was constructed between 1946 and 1951 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 244 feet, and a length of 440 feet at its crest. [1] It impounds the North Platte River for hydroelectric power.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wyoming. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "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 following is a list of the fourteen reservoirs, in the United States state of Wyoming, that contain at least 40,000 acre-feet (49 million cubic meters) when at full capacity. In addition to in-stream reservoirs, the list includes enhanced natural lakes , notably Jackson Lake .
Northeast of the Pathfinder Reservoir it passes through the Alcova [12] and Gray Reef [13] reservoirs before it hits Casper. Casper was established in 1888 east of the former site of Fort Caspar , which was built about 1859 during the mass migration along the Oregon, California, Mormon and Bozeman trails. [ 14 ]
All reservoirs in Wyoming should be included in this category. The main article for this category is List of dams and reservoirs in Wyoming; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in Wyoming; See also category Lakes of Wyoming
Bureau of Reclamation regions. 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.
Just a short distance downriver from the confluence of the two rivers, the Snake widens quickly and passes through Alpine and enters the Palisades Reservoir. The largest tributary of the Greys River is the Little Greys River. At Alpine, Wyoming, the Greys River measures 654 cubic feet per second average. With a 180 cuft/s min. and a 3,004 max. [3]
The project was renamed the Kendrick Project on August 9, 1937 in honor of Wyoming politician John B. Kendrick. [6] Seminoe Dam and Reservoir from the air. In 1934, Winston Brothers Company and Associates won the construction contract for Seminoe Dam. Groundbreaking of the site was on February 20, 1936, with preliminary blasting and excavations.