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Blakely Mountain Dam was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers from 1948 to 1953 for hydroelectric power, recreation, water supply and wildlife conservation. [1] The dam is 231 feet (70 m) tall, 1,100 feet (340 m) long at the crest, and is capable of 75 megawatts. [2] The lake is located near Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Florida. 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 ).
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Arkansas.. 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).
Location Nameplate capacity Generating units 2019 net generation Water source Operator Opened Beaver Lake Dam: Carroll County: 112 2 261,746 [22] White River: Southwestern Power Administration: 1965 [23] Blakely Mountain: Garland/Montgomery: 75 2 231,668 [24] Ouachita River: Southwestern Power Administration: 1956 [23] Bull Shoals: Baxter ...
Norfork Dam: 80.4 1944 Mountain Home, Arkansas: Fort Gibson Dam: 48 1949 Fort Gibson, Oklahoma: Bull Shoals Dam: 380 1951 Bull Shoals, Arkansas: Narrows Dam: 25.5 1951 Murfreesboro, Arkansas: Whitney Dam: 43 [5] 1951 Whitney, Texas: Tenkiller Ferry Dam: 34 1952 Gore, Oklahoma: Blakely Mountain Dam: 75 1953 Hot Springs, Arkansas: Town Bluff Dam ...
Lake Powell, impounded by Glen Canyon Dam, is the second-largest reservoir in the U.S.. This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States, including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3).
The Ouachita River (/ ˈ w ɑː ʃ ɪ t ɑː / WAH-shi-taw) is a 605-mile-long (974 km) [2] river that runs south and east through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana, joining the Tensas River to form the Black River near Jonesville, Louisiana.
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.