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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Florida.. 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).
List of dams and reservoirs in Florida-List of dam removals in Florida; F. Franklin Lock and Dam; H. Herbert Hoover Dike; J. Jim Woodruff Dam; P. Port Mayaca Lock and ...
National Inventory of Dams ID FL00103. Pace's Dike Dam 6 ft (1.8 m) 1991 Monroe County: Gum Slough: Everglades: Located in Big Cypress National Preserve. Dam and Lock 2000 Kissimmee River: Kissimmee River: Puddin Head Dam 2010 Niceville
All reservoirs in Reservoirs in Florida should be included in this category. The main article for this category is List of dams and reservoirs in Florida; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in Florida; See also category Lakes of Florida
The National Inventory of Dams defines a 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). [1] The following is a partial list of dams and reservoirs in the United States. There are an estimated 84,000 dams in ...
St. Lucie Lock and Dam on the Okeechobee Waterway, approximately 15 miles (24 kilometres) southwest of Stuart, Florida.According to the lock webpage by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lock chamber is "50 feet wide x 250 feet long x 10 feet deep at low water", [2] showing that the design of the canal system and waterway is for shallow barges and not a ship canal.
The tallest is Oroville Dam in northern California, a 770.5-foot (234.8 m) embankment dam completed in 1968. Five of the ten tallest dams in the U.S. are located in California. The Colorado, Columbia and Sacramento–San Joaquin river systems contain the greatest number of tall dams. In the eastern U.S., tall dams are less common because of the ...
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.