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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 ...
Bureau of Reclamation regions. 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.
On June 17, 1902, Congress passed the Newlands Reclamation Act, thus creating what is now known as the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). The first of five projects created from the Reclamation Act was the Truckee–Carson Project, later renamed the Newlands Project, as Representative Newlands had been the bills main figurehead. [5]
The Bureau of Reclamation Security Response Force (USBR SRF), is the federal security guard force of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), part of the United States Department of the Interior (DOI). [1] The Security Response Force replaced the former Hoover Dam Police, in 2017.
A project of the Bureau of Reclamation, they hired General Construction Company from Seattle to build the dam. [3] Former Oregonian and then United States President Herbert Hoover dedicated what was the highest dam of its type in the world on July 17, 1932. [4] Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur delivered Hoover's message at the dam. [5]
Pages in category "United States Bureau of Reclamation dams" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 216 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
M. Camille Calimlim Touton is a Filipino-American [2] water policy advisor who served as the commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025. Early life and education
Construction occurred in several stages between 1903 and 1907. The dam was the first project undertaken by the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). [2] [3] At its 1911 completion by the USBR, Belle Fourche Dam was the largest earthen dam in the world.