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The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. 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).
Bois d’Arc Lake in Fannin County, an hour-and-a-half drive northeast from Fort Worth, is the latest reservoir in North Texas to open in 30 years. Pronounced bo-da(r)k, the lake is named after ...
A floating cover was installed on the reservoir in 2011, changing the appearance of the reservoir in satellite imagery, but the reservoir was returned to service in 2011, according to DWP's website.
Baldwin Hills Reservoir (1947–1963) - failed December 14, 1963 St. Francis Dam (1926–1928) - failed March 12, 1928 San Clemente Dam - intentionally removed in 2015-2016 because of environmental issues
Northern California's San Luis Reservoir was only one-quarter full in December, and is now nearly full after the state's wet winter. Stunning before-and-after images: California reservoir went ...
Lake Mathews is a large reservoir in Riverside County, California, located in the Cajalco Canyon in the foothills of the Temescal Mountains. [1] [2] It is the western terminus for the Colorado River Aqueduct that provides much of the water used by the cities and water districts of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD).
The reservoir is one of several operated by DWP across the city, which have a combined capacity of more than 4.1 billion gallons of water. Including aqueduct reservoirs, the city can store more ...
Lake Texoma is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, the 12th-largest US Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) lake, and the largest in USACE Tulsa District. [1] Lake Texoma is formed by Denison Dam on the Red River in Bryan County, Oklahoma, and Grayson County, Texas, about 726 miles (1,168 km) upstream from the mouth of the river.