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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.
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 .
United States Bureau of Reclamation proposed dams (7 P) Pages in category "United States Bureau of Reclamation dams" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 216 total.
The 106-foot-tall (32 m) and 469-foot-long (143 m) thin-arch concrete Warm Springs Dam was built from 1918 to 1919 by the Warm Springs Irrigation District, and was later modified in 1930 and 1939 with the help of the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
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 Deer Creek Dam and Reservoir hydroelectric facilities are on the Provo River in western Wasatch County, Utah, United States, [1] [2] about 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Provo. The dam is a zoned earthfill structure 235 feet (72 m) high with a crest length of 1,304 ft (397 m).
Construction occurred in several stages between 1903 and 1907. The dam was the first project undertaken by the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). [2] [3] At its 1911 completion by the USBR, Belle Fourche Dam was the largest earthen dam in the world. The dam is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Stony Gorge Dam (National ID # CA10194) is a dam in Glenn County, California. The concrete buttress dam was constructed between 1926 (98 years ago) ( 1926 ) and 1928 (96 years ago) ( 1928 ) by the United States Bureau of Reclamation , with a height of 153 feet (47 m) and 868 feet (265 m) long at its crest. [ 1 ]