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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Nebraska. 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 ).
1895 house expanded into a hotel in 1914—when Long Pine boomed as a major railroad terminus—exhibiting an old-fashioned "longitudinal block" layout more typical of Nebraska's earliest hotels. [26] Now a local history museum. [27]
Pathfinder Dam. The North Platte Project (originally the Sweetwater Project) is an irrigation project in the U.S. states of Wyoming and Nebraska. The project provides irrigation service to about 335,000 acres (1,360 km 2). The primary water storage for the project is in Pathfinder Reservoir in Wyoming.
Niobrara and Verdigre (Nebraska) Fire and Rescue are on stand-by." [ 10 ] As the floodwaters from the Niobrara reached the Missouri River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boosted releases at Gavins Point Dam to 90,000 cubic feet per second (2,500 m 3 /s), the highest level since 2011 and the second highest on record. [ 10 ]
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Sherman Dam is an earthen dam near Loup City, in the central part of the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. It was constructed in 1961 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. [1] It has a height of 134 feet (41 m) and a length of 1,912 feet (583 m) at its crest. [citation needed] It impounds Oak Creek. [2]
The earthen and rockfill dam was constructed in 1948 and 1949 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. It is 165 feet (50 m) high, and 5,665 feet (1,727 m) long at its crest. [ 2 ] It impounds Medicine Creek for flood control, part of the Frenchman-Cambridge Division of the Bureau's extensive Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program . [ 3 ]
Kingsley Dam is located on the east side of Lake McConaughy in central Keith County, Nebraska, and was the second largest hydraulic fill dam in the world at the time of its completion. [1] It was built as part of the New Deal project. [2] The dam is 162 feet (49 m) tall, 3.1 miles (5.0 km) long, and 1,100 feet (340 m) wide at its base.