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Nagarjunakonda (ISO: Nāgārjunikoṇḍā, meaning Nagarjuna Hill) is a historical town, now an island located near Nagarjuna Sagar in Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. [2] [3] It is one of India's richest Buddhist sites, and now lies almost entirely under the lake created by the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam. With the construction ...
Bethany Forebay Dam: Italian Slough tributary: Alameda: California Department of Water Resources: 1961: Earth: 95 29: 5,250: 6,480 Big Bear Lake: Bear Valley Dam: Bear Creek: San Bernardino: Big Bear Municipal Water District: 1911: Multiple arch: 80 24: 74,000 [1] 91,000 Big Dry Creek Reservoir: Big Dry Creek Dam: Dry Creek and Dog Creek ...
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is a masonry dam across the Krishna River at Nagarjuna Sagar which straddles the border between Nalgonda district in Telangana and Palnadu district in Andhra Pradesh. [2] The dam provides irrigation water to the districts of Krishna , Guntur , Palnadu , Prakasam and parts of West Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh and also ...
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the Klamath River, inspiring hope among Indigenous activists who pushed for rewilding to help save salmon.
The Santa Ynez Reservoir is a 117 million gallon (443,000 m 3) reservoir in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, U.S. The reservoir covers 9.2 acres. The reservoir covers 9.2 acres. [ 1 ]
At 770 feet (230 m), Oroville is the tallest dam in the United States; [25] by volume it is the largest dam in California. Authorized by an emergency flood control measure in 1957, [ 26 ] Oroville Dam was built between 1961 and 1967 with the reservoir filling for the first time in 1968. [ 27 ]
The Oroville–Thermalito Complex is a group of reservoirs, structures, and facilities located in and around the city of Oroville in Butte County, California.The complex serves not only as a regional water conveyance and storage system, but is the headwaters for, and therefore perhaps is the most vital part of, the California Department of Water Resources' State Water Project, as one of the ...
The impulse for a high dam on the lower Colorado came largely from California — principally from growers in the Imperial Valley. ... of the first graduating class at Stanford University in 1895 ...