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This is a list of dams on the Colorado River system of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The Colorado runs 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California , draining parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states.
Dams on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado (1 P) Pages in category "Dams in Colorado" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
The largest reservoir entirely contained in Colorado is Blue Mesa Reservoir, with a capacity of 829,500 acre⋅ft (1.0 billion m 3). The total storage of the reservoirs on this list is 3,804,458 acre⋅ft (4.7 billion m 3), although not all is allocated for use by Colorado.
This is a List of dams of the Lower Colorado River Valley in the United States. There are many smaller dams, check dams, or diversion dams, that lace the length of the Colorado River. The major Davis Dam directly downstream of Hoover Dam has the purpose of re-regulating Hoover Dam releases.
Articles pertaining to dams in operation, ... Pages in category "Dams on the Colorado River" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The Crystal Dam impounds the Gunnison River about 6 miles (10 km) downstream from the Morrow Point Dam, making it the final dam in the Aspinall Unit. Completed in 1976, it is the last dam in both the Aspinall Unit and the Colorado River Storage Project to be completed, marking the final completion of the system as a whole.
Articles pertaining to dams in operation, under construction or planning in the Colorado River basin in the southwestern United States. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
A large dam on the Colorado River had been envisioned since the 1920s. In 1928, Congress authorized the Reclamation Service (today's U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, or USBR) to build the Boulder Canyon Project, whose key feature would be a dam on the Colorado in Black Canyon 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.