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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania. 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 ).
All reservoirs in Pennsylvania should be included in this category. The main article for this category is List of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in Pennsylvania; See also category Lakes of Pennsylvania
Shamokin Dam: 0: PA: Original low head navigation and canal feeder. Demolished 1904. Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam near Sunbury, Pennsylvania: 8 ft (2.4 m) 0: PA: Shamokin Dam power plant low head dam: 0: PA: Clarks Ferry Dam: 0: PA: Canal for the Wiconisco Canal around the site of Clarks Ferry Bridge. Demolished. Dock Street Dam: 6 ft (1.8 m) 0 ...
Dams on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania (15 P) Pages in category "Dams in Pennsylvania" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
The dam consists of a main concrete dam, which is mostly one continuous spillway, with a power house at the eastern end. The water level is raised by wooden flash boards and inflatable dam sections. [3] The western end of the dam has the original, and ineffective, fish ladder. In the mid 1990s, construction started on a fish lift.
Following is a complete list of the approximately 340 dams owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation as of 2008. [ 1 ] The Bureau was established in July 1902 as the "United States Reclamation Service" and was renamed in 1923.
Dec. 17—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — The reservoir behind North Fork Dam, across the North Fork of Bens Creek, is the primary source of domestic water supply for Greater Johnstown. The 1930s dam also ...
The York Haven Dam is a low head, run-of-the river, dam and hydroelectric plant that is located on the Susquehanna River in the United States.. This dam is situated 12 miles (19 km) south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, at the Conewago Falls impounding about 8,000 feet (2,400 m) of the river to the west side of Three Mile Island, where the river drops 19 feet (5.8 m) in 1 ⁄ 4 mile (0.40 km).