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After a year of construction and over $11 million in initial costs, the dam and its corresponding facilities were finished. [5] The 2-mile (3.2 km) long, 97-foot (30 m) high dam was built to control the runoff and floodwaters. [6] During storms and flooding, the dam is intended to catch water within the reservoir.
The dam was approved by Rivers and Harbors Act of 1946 and construction began in December 1956. [3] The cost of the project, completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was $121,735,000. [3] The flood-control operations of the dam were in place by February 1964, and the dam dedicated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 25, 1964. [3]
The dam was constructed on the orders of the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a 'federal colony' within the British Empire.The double curvature concrete arch dam was designed by Coyne et Bellier and constructed between 1955 and 1959 by Impresit of Italy [2] at a cost of $135,000,000 for the first stage with only the Kariba South power cavern.
The lake now holds 64.3 billion US gallons (243,000,000 m 3) of water, covering 17,088 acres (69.15 km 2) over a length of 17 miles (27 km) with a width of 1.6 miles (2.6 km) at the widest and 70 miles (110 km) of shoreline, with a maximum depth of 35 feet (11 m). The lake has served to provide a water supply for the Shenango and Beaver valleys ...
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page.The 710-foot-high (220 m) dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of more than 25 million acre-feet (31 km 3). [4]
The man-made lake was created by damming Sharon Creek, part of a U.S. Works Progress Administration project in the 1930s to create a lake and park for recreation. Has the lake been dredged before?
The construction of the dam flooded part of the Volta River Basin and led to the subsequent creation of Lake Volta. Lake Volta is the largest man-made lake in the world by surface area. It covers 8,502 square kilometres (3,283 sq mi), which is 3.6% of Ghana's land area.
Rendering of what the Ten Mile Bridge trailhead at Fort Worth’s Marine Creek Lake Park will look like after construction is completed this fall. The 250-acre Marine Creek Lake, just northwest of ...