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This category is for articles about dams in the U.S. state of Illinois. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
Tuttle Creek Dam and Lake Wilson Dam and Lake Birds on one of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge's salt marshes. Lake Inman is the largest natural lake in Kansas. The shorelines of Kansas Lakes are mostly in government ownership and open to the public for hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking. Large areas of public land surround most of the lakes.
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 Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal reached Lockport, Illinois in the 1890s. As part of this construction, a lock and dam was built in Lockport. Seven waste gates, used to control the level of water in the canal and Des Plaines River, were part of this project. [2] From 1903 to 1907, the canal was extended from Lockport to Joliet. Construction ...
The base of the dam is bordered by Tuttle Creek State Park, which features 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) of recreational areas, including nature trails, camping sites, and an artificial beach. [5] The state park also hosted the Country Stampede Music Festival every summer from 1996 to 2018.
The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of navigable water from the mouth of the Calumet River at Chicago to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. Based primarily on the Illinois River , it is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that provide a commercial shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
El Dorado Lake Dam is a rolled earth-fill embankment dam that stands 99 feet (30 m) above the streambed and 20,930 feet (6,380 m) long. [8] At its crest, the dam has an elevation of 1,370.5 feet (417.7 m). [3] An uncontrolled, 350-foot (110 m) spillway is located near the northwest end of the dam.
Watersheds of Illinois is a list of basins or catchment areas into which the State of Illinois can be divided based on the place to which water flows.. At the simplest level, in pre-settlement times, Illinois had two watersheds: the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, with almost the entire State draining to the Mississippi, except for a small area within a few miles of the Lake.