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  2. United States Bureau of Reclamation - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of United States Bureau of Reclamation dams - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Minidoka Dam - Wikipedia

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    The Minidoka Dam is an earthfill dam in the western United States, on the Snake River in south central Idaho.Completed in 1906, the dam is east of Rupert on county highway 400; it is 86 feet (26 m) high and nearly a mile (1.6 km) in length, with a 2,400-foot (730 m) wide overflow spillway section.

  5. Category:United States Bureau of Reclamation - Wikipedia

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    Colorado River Storage Project (1 C, 28 P) D. United States Bureau of Reclamation dams (1 C, 216 P) M. ... Pages in category "United States Bureau of Reclamation"

  6. Minidoka Project - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Stony Gorge Dam - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of Stony Gorge Reservoir from the west. Stony Gorge Dam (National ID # CA10194) is a dam in Glenn County, California.. The concrete buttress dam was constructed between 1926 (98 years ago) () and 1928 (96 years ago) () by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 153 feet (47 m) and 868 feet (265 m) long at its crest. [1]

  8. Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Reclamation was granted permission to build 27 dams in the Yellowstone Basin. In addition, the Corps of Engineers and the Reclamation Bureau were both given authority to develop hydroelectric power on the Missouri River. [2] The newly merged Pick Sloan plan was accepted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944.

  9. Fontenelle Dam - Wikipedia

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    Development of the upper Green River basin was included in a 1946 Bureau of Reclamation report on the Colorado River basin. A 1950 supplementary report dealt with details of the proposed Seedskadee Project, followed by another addendum in 1953. The Colorado River Storage Project, including the Seedskadee Project, was authorized by Congress in 1956.