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  2. List of United States Bureau of Reclamation dams - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. United States Bureau of Reclamation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of dams and reservoirs in California - Wikipedia

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    California Water Service Company: 1896: Earth: 61 19: 672: ... United States Bureau of Reclamation: 1939: Earth: 93 28: 41,110: ... List of the tallest dams in the ...

  5. Seminoe Dam - Wikipedia

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    Seminoe Dam is a concrete thick-arch dam on the North Platte River in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The dam stores water for irrigation and hydroelectricity generation and is owned and operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. It is the uppermost dam on the North Platte River and is located directly upstream from the Kortes Dam.

  6. List of dams and reservoirs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Theodore Roosevelt Dam - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Laguna Diversion Dam - Wikipedia

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    After the passage of the Reclamation Act of 1902 by the US Congress, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock authorized the Yuma Project in 1904. This project was the first development of the U.S. Reclamation Service along the Lower Colorado River and featured the Laguna Diversion Dam, a pumping station and a series of canals. [1]

  9. Category : United States Bureau of Reclamation dams

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    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 .