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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.
United States Bureau of Reclamation dams (1 C, 216 P) M. Minidoka Project (8 P) P. United States Bureau of Reclamation personnel (15 P)
Begun in the 1880s, it is now managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and provides irrigation water to a large area around Carlsbad, diverted from the Pecos River and the Black River. The late 19th and early 20th-century elements of the project were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1964. [2] [3]
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 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.
Aerial view of Stony Gorge Reservoir from the west. Stony Gorge Dam (National ID # CA10194) is a dam in Glenn County, California.. The concrete buttress dam was constructed between 1926 (98 years ago) () and 1928 (96 years ago) () by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 153 feet (47 m) and 868 feet (265 m) long at its crest. [1]
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.