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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wyoming. 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 ).
The following is a list of the fourteen reservoirs, in the United States state of Wyoming, that contain at least 40,000 acre-feet (49 million cubic meters) when at full capacity. In addition to in-stream reservoirs, the list includes enhanced natural lakes , notably Jackson Lake .
Kortes Dam (National ID # WY01294) is a dam in Carbon County, Wyoming. The concrete gravity dam was constructed between 1946 and 1951 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 244 feet, and a length of 440 feet at its crest. [1] It impounds the North Platte River for hydroelectric power.
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Bureau of Reclamation regions. 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.
Up in central north Colorado rests North Park (Colorado basin), a valley ringed by 12,000 feet (3,700 m) mountains.The headwaters of the river is essentially all of Jackson County, Colorado whose boundaries are the continental divide on the west and south and the mountain drainage peaks on the east—the north boundary is the state of Wyoming boundary.
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The dam creates Guernsey Reservoir, the last of the 5 major reservoirs on the North Platte River in Wyoming. The dam contains a hydroelectric plant capable of 6.4 megawatts of electricity. [ 1 ] The total capacity of the reservoir is 71,040 acre-feet (87,630,000 m 3 ) of water which is used mainly for irrigation.