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Bull Shoals Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the White River in northern Arkansas in the United States. The dam lies on the border of Marion and Baxter Counties, and forms Bull Shoals Lake, which extends well northwest into Missouri. Its main purposes are hydroelectricity production and flood control.
The dam is designed for a maximum elevation of 695 ft (212 m) (top of the flood pool). Bull Shoals Lake covers 45,000 acres (180 km 2) with a 700-mile (1,100 km) shoreline at powerpool to more than 70,000 acres (280 km 2) with a 1,000 miles (1,600 km) shoreline at 690 ft (210 m). The bottom of the lake consists of bedrock with very limited ...
Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems. They may be designed to set spillway crest heights in dams , to adjust flow rates in sluices and canals , or they may be designed to stop water flow entirely as part of a levee or storm surge system.
Bull Shoals may refer to: Bull Shoals Dam, a concrete gravity dam on the White River in northern Arkansas; Bull Shoals Lake, an artificial lake formed by the Bull Shoals Dam; Bull Shoals, Arkansas, a city near the dam; Bull Shoals-White River State Park, an Arkansas state park below the dam
The dam is 1.5 miles long, 375 feet thick, 208 feet high and covers 99 acres. There are four spill gates, each 37.5 feet long by 25 feet wide, according to Lake Murray Country. The dam holds back ...
Bull Shoals-White River State Park is a 732-acre (296 ha) Arkansas state park in Baxter and Marion Counties, Arkansas in the United States. Containing one of the nation's best trout-fishing streams, the park entered the system in 1955 after the United States Army Corps of Engineers built Bull Shoals Dam on the White River . [ 1 ]
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Arkansas.. 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).
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