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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.
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 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).
Begun in the 1880s, it is now managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and provides irrigation water to a large area around Carlsbad, diverted from the Pecos River and the Black River. The late 19th and early 20th-century elements of the project were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1964.
Pages in category "United States Bureau of Reclamation dams" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 216 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Dry Falls, or South Dam, near Coulee City, has a maximum height of 123 feet (37 m) and a crest length of 8,880 feet (2,710 m). The crest elevation of both dams is 1,580 feet (480 m). Project water enters Banks Lake through the Feeder Canal from the Pump-generating plant. [6] The outlet for Banks Lake is the Main Canal near Coulee City.
Pages in category "United States Bureau of Reclamation proposed dams" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A week in they reached Box Canyon, near the confluence of Tonto Creek and the Salt River and made their choice. [4] However, they lacked the funding to proceed. The Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902 created the United States Reclamation Service, whose purpose was to design and construct irrigation projects to aid the settlement of the arid west ...