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The Faraday Diversion Dam, Clackamas River. This dam slows a normally fast and shallow river for partial diversion to a hydroelectric dam. The diversion tunnel opening can be seen in the upper left. The Imperial Dam diverting the Colorado River in the southwestern United States.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Nevada.. 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).
There are many smaller dams, check dams, or diversion dams, that lace the length of the Colorado River. The major Davis Dam directly downstream of Hoover Dam has the purpose of re-regulating Hoover Dam releases. The purpose of this list is to accompany the List of lakes of the LCRV (birdwatching).
Bellingham’s diversion dam on the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River was removed in in 2020. But, dam removal is only part of the process when restoring the river and fish habitat.
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the ... work crews will pour concrete to plug diversion tunnels where water has been rerouted and will demolish a concrete tower that was ...
All but Faraday, demolished 2018, are still owned and operated by the successor company, Portland General Electric. [5] River Mill dam, view from east bank. The principal designer of the original Mill Run Dam was the Norwegian immigrant Nils F. Ambursen (1876–1958). Based in Boston, his Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Company designed over a ...
The Diversion Dam and Deer Flat Embankments is the collective name given in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places program to a set of three dams in the western United States in southwestern Idaho, near Boise and Nampa.
Belden Dam (also known as Caribou Afterbay Dam) is a small earthfill diversion dam located on the North Fork Feather River, about 6 miles (9.7 km) downstream from Canyon Dam. Completed in 1958, the dam is 84 feet (26 m) high and 400 feet (120 m) long, with a storage capacity of 2,477 acre-feet (3,055,000 m 3). The dam and reservoir serve as an ...