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This dam slows a normally fast and shallow river for partial diversion to a hydroelectric dam. The diversion tunnel opening can be seen in the upper left. The Imperial Dam diverting the Colorado River in the southwestern United States. A diversion dam is a dam that diverts all or a portion of the flow of a river from its natural
Inclement weather and flooding caused at least two months' worth of delays and forced the crews to rebuild part of the structure. By April 16, 1907, the dam was only 41% complete. It took another year and a half before the diversion works were ready to unload into the New York Canal. The company eventually lost $90,000 on the contract.
The dams are components of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Boise Project, and were designed to provide irrigation water to 500,000 acres (780 sq mi; 2,000 km 2) of Treasure Valley farmland in conjunction with the New York Irrigation District (New York Canal). The Boise River Diversion Dam also provides hydroelectric generation capacity. [1]
The canal spillway of Laguna Diversion Dam, shown here, uses a baffle chute drop structure to pass water to a lower elevation. Drop structures can be classified into three different basic types: vertical hard basin, grouted sloping boulder, and baffle chute. Each type is built depending on water flow, steepness of the site, and location. [1]
This is a list of dams on the Colorado River system of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The Colorado runs 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California , draining parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states.
Bellingham’s diversion dam on the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River was removed in in 2020. But, dam removal is only part of the process when restoring the river and fish habitat.
The Grand Valley Diversion Dam is a diversion dam in the De Beque Canyon of the Colorado River, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Grand Junction, Colorado in the United States. It is a 14-foot (4.3 m) high, 546-foot (166 m) long concrete roller dam with six gates, which were the first and largest of their kind to be installed in the United ...
The team, part of the Karuk Tribe’s fisheries program, was searching for juvenile chinook and coho salmon. ... including dams and water diversion as well as the worsening effects of climate ...