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The following table lists the largest man-made dams by volume of fill/structure. By general definition, a dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams, hence tailings dams are relegated to a separate list. Data on volume of structure is not as easily available or reliable as data on dam height and reservoir volume.
Rising 585 feet (178 m) above its foundations and 560 feet (170 m) above the Tuolumne River, [21] New Don Pedro is a massive earth and rock fill structure containing 16,750,000 cubic yards (12,810,000 m 3) of material. [2] The 1,900-foot (580 m) long dam is 40 feet (12 m) wide at the crest and over 2,800 feet (850 m) wide at the base. [1]
Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley.At 770 feet (235 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S. [8] and serves mainly for water supply, hydroelectricity generation, and flood control.
As the name suggests, an acre-foot is defined as the volume of one acre of surface area to a depth of one foot.. Since an acre is defined as a chain by a furlong (i.e. 66 ft × 660 ft or 20.12 m × 201.17 m), an acre-foot is 43,560 cubic feet (1,233.5 m 3).
In civil engineering and construction, the neat volume is a theoretical amount of material. For earthworks , it can refer to the volume either before native material is disturbed by excavation , or after placement and compaction is complete.
It is famously used in the line "Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall." in The Beatles song "A Day in the Life". [50] The volume of the auditorium is between 3 and 3.5 million cubic feet (between 85,000 and 99,000 cubic metres). [51] Melbourne Cricket Ground
Nacimiento Dam is an earthfill dam with a height of 210 feet (64 m) and a crest length of 1,630 feet (500 m). Altogether, the dam contains 3,270,000 cubic yards (2,500,000 m 3) of material. [2] The crest of the dam is 825 feet (251 m) above sea level, and the spillway crest elevation is 787.75 feet (240.11 m).
The principal element of the project is an embankment 9,000 feet (2,700 m) long with a maximum height of 465 feet (142 m). The dam used approximately 200 million cubic yards (152.8 million cu. meters) of fill, which makes it one of the largest man-made structures in the world.
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