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Pathfinder Dam. The North Platte Project (originally the Sweetwater Project) is an irrigation project in the U.S. states of Wyoming and Nebraska. The project provides irrigation service to about 335,000 acres (1,360 km 2). The primary water storage for the project is in Pathfinder Reservoir in Wyoming.
Trenton Dam is a dam on the Republican River in Nebraska, standing in Hitchcock County in the southwestern part of the state. The facility stands about 2 and one-half miles west of Trenton, Nebraska. The dam is a project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation and was built between 1949 and 1953 for irrigation water storage and flood control ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Nebraska. 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 ).
Dam safety may refer to: Dam safety systems - used for monitoring the safety status of dams Reservoir safety - the risks to dams and reservoirs and the legislation and guidelines in place to ensure dams and reservoirs are safe.
Because reservoirs and their containing dams present such significant potential risks many countries have put legislation in place and set safety standards, but it was not until 1930 that effective legislation was first approved for control of the design, construction and maintenance of dams and reservoirs when the Reservoirs (Safety provisions ...
Virginia Smith Dam (also known as Calamus Dam; National ID # NE02287) is a dam in Garfield County, Nebraska, about five miles northwest of Burwell. The earthen dam was constructed in 1985 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation with a height of 96 feet (29 m) and 5,808 feet (1,770 m) long at its crest. [ 1 ]
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Dam safety systems are used to monitor the state of dams, including external physical threats to the dams, and issuing emergency warnings at various degrees of automation. This includes the use of differential GPS and SAR remote sensing to monitor the risks imposed by landslides and subsidence .