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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 dam is located in Tahoe City and serves as the main storage facility for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Newlands Project that also includes the Lahontan Dam and two diversion dams, providing irrigation water for 55,000 acres (22,000 ha) of cropland mainly in the Lahontan Valley of western Nevada. [2]
Map showing the locations of CRSP dams and participating projects. Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell near Page, Arizona. The dam and lake are major components in the Colorado River Storage Project's attempt to regulate the flow of the Colorado River. The Colorado River Storage Project is a United States Bureau of Reclamation project designed to ...
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.
The Middle Rio Grande Project includes the river, dams, irrigation and drainage channels from Velarde south to the point where the river enters the Elephant Butte Reservoir. It also includes maintenance of the river near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The irrigation facilities, originally built by the conservancy district, irrigate up to ...
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 .
Avalon Dam is a small dam on the Pecos River about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States. The dam is a storage and regulating reservoir, and diverts water into the main canal of the Carlsbad Project , an irrigation scheme.