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Hoopes Reservoir. Hoopes Reservoir is a reservoir in New Castle County, Delaware. The reservoir first impounded the water of Old Mill Stream and Red Clay Creek in 1932, with a dam built by the city of Wilmington, Delaware, for municipal drinking water. It has a water surface of 187 acres (76 ha), a maximum capacity of 11,000 acre-feet ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Delaware. 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 ).
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 ...
Newark Reservoir. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. The Newark Reservoir is a reservoir in Newark, Delaware, located just north of downtown. Completed in 2006, it holds 317 million U.S. gallons (1.20 × 10 9 L) of water pumped from White Clay Creek, which can supply the city for up to 100 days. [1]
Salt Water Barrier (Delaware River) Coordinates: 39°38′53″N 75°33′26″W. The Salt Water Barrier was a proposed project on the estuary of the Delaware River, which was projected in the late 1950s to convert the lower reaches of the Delaware into a freshwater lake. The barrier was proposed as a 30-foot (9.1 m) high dam near New Castle ...
E. Edgar M. Hoopes Dam. Categories: Dams in the United States by state or territory. Buildings and structures in Delaware by type. Water supply infrastructure in Delaware. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
All reservoirs in Delaware should be included in this category. ... Hoopes Reservoir; N. Newark Reservoir; S. Silver Lake (Dover, Delaware)
Wilmington city, Delaware – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 1980 [21] Pop 1990 [22] Pop 2000 [23] Pop ...