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Grand Valley Diversion Dam CO: USBR: Irrigation 1916 N/A N/A 3: 19,350 [15] Windy Gap Dam CO: Northern Water: Irrigation Municipal 1970 Windy Gap Reservoir: 445 acre.ft (549 dam 3) N/A N/A [16] Granby Dam CO: USBR: Irrigation Municipal 1950 Lake Granby: 539,800 acre.ft (665,800 dam 3) N/A N/A [17] Shadow Mountain Dam CO: USBR: Irrigation ...
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 ...
The dam in 2024. Rio Grande Dam is a dam in Hinsdale County, Colorado impounding the Rio Grande.Built between 1910 and 1914 by the San Luis Valley Irrigation District to store water for agriculture in the San Luis Valley, Rio Grande Dam is an earth and rock fill dam 111 ft (34 m) high and 550 ft (170 m) long. [1]
Willow Creek Dam (Colorado) Windy Gap Reservoir This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 10:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
This means the dam towers 88 feet (27 m) above the mean surface of the reservoir. The lake drains an area of more than 3,000 square miles (8,000 km 2 ). The 1,500 acre (6 km 2 ) lake has a conservation storage capacity of 27,000 acre⋅ft (0.033 km 3 ) with a flood-control pool of over 350,000 acre⋅ft (0.43 km 3 ).
The Grand Valley Diversion Dam is a diversion dam in the De Beque Canyon of the Colorado River, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Grand Junction, Colorado in the United States. It is a 14-foot (4.3 m) high, 546-foot (166 m) long concrete roller dam with six gates, which were the first and largest of their kind to be installed in the United ...
Cheesman Dam is a 211-foot-tall (64 m) masonry curved gravity dam on the South Platte River located in Colorado. It was the tallest of its type in the world when completed in 1905. [ 1 ] The primary purpose of the dam is water supply and it was named for Colorado businessman, Walter Cheesman .
Oahe Dam [2] United States: 1963 70.3 75 29 786 TE/ER 6 Mangla Dam Pakistan: 1967 65.4 147 7.25 1,000 TE or TE/ER 7 Gardiner Dam [6] Canada: 1967 65.4 64 9.4 186 TE 8 Oroville Dam United States: 1968 59.6 230 4.36 819 TE/ER 9 San Luis Dam (BF Sisk Dam) United States: 1967 59.6 93 2.52 424 TE 10 Nurek Dam Tajikistan: 1980 54 300 10.5 3,200 TE 11 ...