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As of 2023, the U.S. state of Washington has 1,242 dams that are able to impound 10 acre-feet or more of water and are regulated by the Washington State Department of Ecology (DOE). These include dams that produce hydroelectricity and create reservoirs for irrigation, drinking water, or recreational uses. According to the DOE, approximately 52 ...
The Hawaii water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Hawaii. 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 ).
The Columbia Basin. The Columbia River drainage basin is the drainage basin of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.It covers 668,000 km 2 or 258,000 sq mi. [1] In common usage, the term often refers to a smaller area, generally the portion of the drainage basin that lies within eastern Washington.
This is a list of rivers and streams in Hawaii . Modern maps show some 360 streams in the Hawaiian Islands . However, because of the small size of the islands in comparison with continental areas, there are very few navigable rivers anywhere in the islands.
Olympia Brewery, Olympia, Washington (see Olympia Brewing Company#Use of artesian water) Polk Theater well, Lakeland, Florida; possibly used in the loop of the first air conditioning system in America; Pryor Avenue Iron Well, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Southwestern Lunatic Asylum–Hot Wells, San Antonio, Texas; Sulphur Springs, Tampa, Florida
Columbia River Basin. Wallula Gap (/ w ə ˈ l uː l ə /) is a large water gap of the Columbia River in the Northwestern United States, in Southeastern Washington.It cuts through the Horse Heaven Hills basalt anticlines in the Columbia River Basin, just south of the confluence of the Walla Walla and Columbia rivers.
Kachess Lake (/ k ʌ tʃ i s /) is a lake and reservoir along the course of the Kachess River in Kittitas County, Washington, United States. The upper part of the lake, north of a narrows, is called Little Kachess Lake. The Kachess River flows into the lake from the north, and out from the south.