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  2. Embankment dam - Wikipedia

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    Embankment dams come in two types: the earth-filled dam (also called an earthen dam or terrain dam) made of compacted earth, and the rock-filled dam. A cross-section of an embankment dam shows a shape like a bank, or hill.

  3. Dry Falls Dam - Wikipedia

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    The construction of the canal head works began in March 1948, and was completed a year later. Designed as a zoned earth embankment structure with an impervious central core, a semi-pervious layer on either side of the core, and a layer of rock fill. The semi-pervious layer was built in 1 foot (0.30 m) layers and compacted.

  4. Meadow Grounds Lake - Wikipedia

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    Meadow Grounds Dam is categorized by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) as a High Hazard (Category 1), size class B structure. The drainage area of the dam’s watershed is 3.2 square miles on Roaring Run. The zoned earth embankment creates a 204-acre reservoir and at normal pool stores 3130 (acre-feet) of water.

  5. List of largest dams - Wikipedia

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    The following table lists the largest man-made dams by volume of fill/structure. By general definition, a dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams, hence tailings dams are relegated to a separate list.

  6. Category:Earth-filled dams - Wikipedia

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    This is the category for embankment dams that are filled with earthen material such as soil. Pages in category "Earth-filled dams" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 259 total.

  7. New Waddell Dam - Wikipedia

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    The New Waddell Dam is 300 ft (91 m) high from the riverbed and 440 feet (130 m) high from its bedrock foundation. It is a zoned earth-fill type and is 4,700 ft (1,433 m) long; containing 16,200,000 cu yd (12,385,789 m 3) of material. The dam has a crest width of 35 feet (11 m) and a base width of 1,514 feet (461 m). [4]

  8. Syncrude Tailings Dam - Wikipedia

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    The average base width of the embankment is variously 1,800 m, [10] 800 m from Google Earth and 660 m. [7] So whereas one report [ 10 ] gives an embankment volume of 720×10 6 m 3 , calculations based on the width of the embankment base from these three sources give embankment volumes of 660, 290 and 240×10 6 m 3 respectively.

  9. List of tallest dams - Wikipedia

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    Embankment, earth/rock-fill United States: Stanislaus River: 1979 W.A.C. Bennett Dam: 190.5 m (625 ft) Embankment, earth-fill Canada: Peace River: 1968 Sogamoso Dam: 190 m (620 ft) Embankment, concrete-face rock-fill Colombia: Sogamoso: 2014 Arkun Dam: 188 m (617 ft) Embankment, earth-fill Turkey: Çoruh River: 2014 Miel 1 Dam: 188 m (617 ft)