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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania. 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 ).
Shamokin Dam: 0: PA: Original low head navigation and canal feeder. Demolished 1904. Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam near Sunbury, Pennsylvania: 8 ft (2.4 m) 0: PA: Shamokin Dam power plant low head dam: 0: PA: Clarks Ferry Dam: 0: PA: Canal for the Wiconisco Canal around the site of Clarks Ferry Bridge. Demolished. Dock Street Dam: 6 ft (1.8 m) 0 ...
Dams in Pennsylvania (1 C, 37 P) Pages in category "Reservoirs in Pennsylvania" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
Americans wondering whether a nearby dam could be dangerous can look up the condition and hazard ratings of tens of thousands of dams nationwide using an online database run by the federal government.
The state Department of Environmental Services listed the structure as a "high hazard" dam in 2018 and ordered the town to address it by 2027. The reclassification was the outcome of a study that ...
The lake covers 1,900 acres (770 ha) [2] and the waste in the lake is prevented from escaping thanks to a 400-foot (120 m) tall, 2,200-foot (670 m) wide rock-and-earth dam. [3] The dam containing Little Blue Run Lake has been given a designation of "high hazard", meaning, there would be harm or loss of life if the structure were to fail.
Over 90 of New York's high hazard dams are in poor condition, with dams in three Hudson Valley counties exhibiting some of the worst numbers in New York. Of the state's 1,920 dams, 438 of them are ...
The Allegheny Reservoir is a man-made lake created along the Allegheny River with the construction of the Kinzua Dam in 1965. The dam was authorized by the United States Congress as a flood control measure in the Flood Control Acts of 1936 and 1938, and was built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers beginning in 1960.