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The largest dam in Washington, in terms of structural volume, reservoir capacity, and electricity production, is the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. It is the largest power station in the United States with a nameplate capacity of 6,809 megawatts and one of the largest concrete structures in the world. [ 3 ]
Lake of the Woods Dam Number Two – near Fredericksburg; Leesville Dam – on the Roanoke River; operated by Appalachian Power as part of the Smith Mountain pumped storage project; Little River Dam (hydroelectric) – on the Little River; owned by the city of Radford; Martinsville Dam – on the Smith River; Martinsville Fish Dam – NRHP ...
The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936. Since then numerous other hydroelectric power stations have surpassed the 1,000 MW threshold, most often through the expansion of existing hydroelectric facilities.
The Skagit River Hydroelectric Project is a series of dams with hydroelectric power-generating stations on the Skagit River in the north of the U.S. state of Washington. The project is owned and operated by Seattle City Light to provide electric power for the City of Seattle and surrounding communities.
This article provides a list of the largest hydroelectric power stations by generating capacity. Only plants with capacity larger than 3,000 MW are listed. The Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China, has the world's largest instantaneous generating capacity at 22,500 MW of power. In second place is the Baihetan Dam, also in China, with a capacity of ...
The 124-foot tall hydroelectric dam, which is on the Broad River, about 25 miles from Asheville, is operated by the town of Lake Lure, according to the National Inventory of Dams. Its maximum ...
The lower reservoir dam on Back Creek is 135 feet (41 m) high and 2,400 feet (730 m) in length. It has a structural volume of 4,000,000 cubic yards (3,100,000 m 3 ) and creates a reservoir with a surface area of 555 acres (225 ha) and storage capacity of 27,927 acre-feet (34,447,000 m 3 ).
The Oahe Dam (/ oʊ ˈ ɑː h iː /) is a large earthen dam on the Missouri River, just north of Pierre, South Dakota, United States. Begun in 1948 and opened in 1962, the dam creates Lake Oahe , the fourth-largest man-made reservoir in the United States.