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The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant ...
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.
Pages in category "United States Bureau of Reclamation dams" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 216 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Alcove Reservoir; Allegheny Reservoir; Amawalk Reservoir; Ashokan Reservoir; Basic Creek Reservoir; Beacon Reservoir, Dutchess County; Beacon Reservoir, Putnam County; Blake Falls Reservoir
The Bureau of Reclamation Security Response Force (USBR SRF), is the federal security guard force of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), part of the United States Department of the Interior (DOI). [1] The Security Response Force replaced the former Hoover Dam Police, in 2017.
The Boise River Diversion Dam is a diversion dam in the western United States, on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho.Seven miles (11 km) southeast and upstream of Boise in Ada County, it was completed 116 years ago in 1909 and is operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
A project of the Bureau of Reclamation, they hired General Construction Company from Seattle to build the dam. [3] Former Oregonian and then United States President Herbert Hoover dedicated what was the highest dam of its type in the world on July 17, 1932. [4] Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur delivered Hoover's message at the dam. [5]
The Minidoka Project is a series of public works by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to control the flow of the Snake River in Wyoming and Idaho, supplying irrigation water to farmlands in Idaho. One of the oldest Bureau of Reclamation projects in the United States, the project involves a series of dams and canals intended to store, regulate and ...