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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.
Bureau of Reclamation: Dam and spillways; Impounds: Little Truckee River: Height: 93 ft (28 m) Length: 1,629 ft (497 m) Reservoir; Creates: Boca Reservoir: Total capacity: 41,110 acre⋅ft (50,710,000 m 3) Catchment area: 172 sq mi (450 km 2) Surface area: 977 acres (3.95 km 2) U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Boca Dam
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.
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
The dam was constructed as the principal feature of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Palisades Project. The Palisades Project supplements the storage and power generation facilities of the earlier Minidoka and Michaud Flats projects, which serve irrigation interest in Idaho on the Snake River Plain, saving about 1,350,000 acre-feet (1.67 km 3) through the winter for use in the growing season.