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    Long Lake Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Spokane River, between Lincoln County and Stevens County about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Spokane in...
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    high and 482 feet (147 m) long. The dam has an ogee-type spillway with a flashboard crest. Its reservoir, Davy Crockett Lake (named for the folk figure...
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    Carolina, in the Great Smoky Mountains. The concrete arch dam is 180 ft (55 m) high by 800 ft (240 m) long, impounding the Pigeon River, near Interstate 40. The...
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  • Dam impounds Fort Loudoun Lake Watts Bar Dam impounds Watts Bar Lake Chickamauga Dam impounds Chickamauga Lake Nickajack Dam impounds Nickajack Lake Guntersville...
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    of Page. The 710-foot-high (220 m) dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made...
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    900 ft) long. The dam forms Lake Kariba, which extends for 280 kilometres (170 mi) and holds 185 cubic kilometres (150,000,000 acre⋅ft) of water. The dam was...
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    where it is impounded by the Long Lake Dam to form Long Lake, a 15-mile (24 km) reservoir. It joins Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake on the Columbia from the east...
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    Lake Tahoe Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Truckee River, at the outlet of Lake Tahoe in Placer County, California. Tahoe Dam regulates the top six...
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  • Thumbnail for List of dams in the Columbia River watershed
    GPX (secondary coordinates) Dams are listed in order from headwater (Columbia Lake, BC) to mouth (Pacific Ocean, OR/WA). Dams are listed in order from headwater...
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  • Thumbnail for Crowley Lake
    Lake is 15 mi (24 km) south of Mammoth Lakes. The lake was created in 1941 by the building of the Long Valley Dam by the Los Angeles Department of Water...
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    Bagnell Dam, and the Osage River is both its primary inflow and outflow. Long and winding in shape, the lake consists of the main, 93-mile-long (150 km)...
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    the ancient, massive glacial dammed lake, Lake Missoula of the era of the last interglacial. Flathead Lake is a natural lake along the mainline of the Flathead...
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    concrete gravity-type dam 1705 feet (520 m) long and 202 feet (62 m) high, impounding the 28,420-acre (11,500 ha) Douglas Lake. The dam was named for Douglas...
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  • eastern end is from John D. Long Lake Road which connects to Highway 49. This gives out on a small parkland near the dam, where the boat ramp was formerly...
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    expanded to house people displaced by the damming of the river. Lake Kariba is over 223 kilometres (139 miles) long and up to 40 kilometres (25 miles) in...
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    longest earthen dam in the world. Behind the dam extends a lake, Hirakud Reservoir, 55 km (34 mi) long. It is one of the first major multipurpose river...
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    Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead and is located...
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    The Saluda Dam or Saluda River Dam, officially the Dreher Shoals Dam, commonly referred to as the Lake Murray Dam, is an earthen embankment dam located approximately...
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    the construction of the Cowans Ford Dam by Duke Energy. Located in Iredell County, 15 miles north of Charlotte, Lake Norman State Park boasts the region's...
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  • Thumbnail for Lake Homs Dam
    The Lake Homs Dam, also known as Qattinah Dam, is a Roman-built dam near the city of Homs, Syria, which is in use to this day. Contrary to an older hypothesis...
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    construction of the dam flooded part of the Volta River Basin and led to the subsequent creation of Lake Volta. Lake Volta is the largest man-made lake in the world...
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    mountain parks of the Canadian Rockies (the result of a power dam at the west end). The lake is fed by the Cascade River, flowing east of Cascade Mountain...
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     MN-69-A, "Sandy Lake Reservoir Dam & Lock, Lockhouse", 7 photos, 1 photo caption page HAER No. MN-69-B, "Sandy Lake Reservoir Dam & Lock, Office", 1 photo...
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    continuously operational dam is Lake Homs Dam, built in Syria between 1319-1304 BC. The Ancient Egyptian Sadd-el-Kafara Dam at Wadi Al-Garawi, about 25 km...
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    it was the tallest earthen dam in the world, surpassing the Chatuge Dam in the United States. The dam, which created the Lake Nasser reservoir, was built...
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    It was created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam and is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. Before its creation, the project faced...
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  • bed at the downstream toe of the dam — hydraulic height, not foundation height. Clear Lake is a natural lake. The dam adds only 315,000 acre-feet (389...
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  • Thumbnail for Caesar Creek State Park
    who in the 1970s erected a dam on Caesar Creek to impound a 2,830-acre (1,150 ha) lake. The total park area, including the lake, is 7,530-acre (3,050 ha)...
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    The earth-fill only dam wall at Lake Argyle is the most efficient dam in Australia in terms of the ratio of the size of the dam wall to the amount of...
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  • Thumbnail for South Fork Dam
    South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer)...
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