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Choke Canyon Reservoir is a reservoir in South Texas, United States. The lake and the dam that creates it are owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and managed by the City of Corpus Christi .
The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant ...
The dam was opened by President Theodore Roosevelt on March 18, 1911. [6] Roosevelt Dam, as originally conceived and built, was a symbol of success and a showpiece for the new Reclamation agency. The dam contributed more than any other dam in Arizona to the settlement of Central Arizona and to the development of large-scale irrigation there.
Following is a complete list of the approximately 340 dams owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation as of 2008. [1] The Bureau was established in July 1902 as the "United States Reclamation Service" and was renamed in 1923. The agency has operated in the 17 western states of the continental U.S., divided into five administrative regions.
Congress authorized planning for the United States Bureau of Reclamation project with Public Law 84–485 on 11 April 1956, [1] and construction was authorized by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 30 September 1968 (Public Law 90-537). [2]
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). [1] The following is a partial list of dams and reservoirs in the United States. There are an estimated 84,000 dams in ...
The United States Society on Dams is a professional association headquartered in Westminster, Colorado that is dedicated to: [1] Advancing the knowledge of dam engineering , construction , planning, operation, performance, rehabilitation, decommissioning, maintenance, security and safety;
Dickinson Dam is a dam in Stark County, North Dakota, one and a half miles west of the town of Dickinson. The earthen dam was completed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in May 1950, impounding the Heart River. [2] The dam has a structural height of 65 feet (20 m) and is 2,275 feet (693 m) along its crest.