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  • Thumbnail for Embankment dam
    bringing in concrete would be prohibitive. Rock-fill dams are embankments of compacted free-draining granular earth with an impervious zone. The earth used...
    15 KB (1,853 words) - 06:15, 5 March 2024
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    A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also...
    92 KB (11,127 words) - 07:03, 29 May 2024
  • Lake Dunlap (category Dam failures in the United States)
    outdoor recreation, including fishing and boating. In 2019, the dam failed, draining the lake. The repair was completed in August 2023, and the lake fully...
    5 KB (471 words) - 01:08, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hoover Dam
    Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed...
    93 KB (10,735 words) - 20:51, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mukutmanipur Dam
    in West Bengal before draining in the Bay of Bengal, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Mukutmonipur. It is the second longest earthen dam in India (11.27 km),...
    3 KB (267 words) - 10:59, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for South Platte River
    capacity of 97,000 acre-feet (120,000,000 m3). The Eleven Mile Reservoir Dam drains into Eleven Mile Canyon, which runs through Forest Service land. Three...
    13 KB (1,505 words) - 15:54, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Allagash River
    River, to facilitate the shipping of logs south to coastal Maine. Lock Dam drains some water from Chamberlain Lake into the south end of Eagle Lake, which...
    10 KB (849 words) - 08:25, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aswan Dam
    The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1980s, the Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile...
    55 KB (6,766 words) - 19:35, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moraine Lake
    glaciers. The lake is completely created by nature and has not been dammed, drained, or otherwise altered by humans in any way, other than the visitor...
    10 KB (1,122 words) - 20:16, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Servalar dam
    Dam was set up for power generation in 1986, with a capacity of 1225 million cubic feet. The peak water level of the dam is 156 ft. The water drained...
    4 KB (113 words) - 15:28, 26 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Watershops Pond
    Rainbow Trout, and Yellow Bass. The city after multiple lowering of the dam draining the pins for lengthy periods had destroyed the habitat. Not only had...
    2 KB (282 words) - 19:15, 7 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mettur Dam
    from Base Mettur Dam – Overflow Bridge Specification board of Mettur dam Sluices channels for water draining by the side of the Mettur dam(Low level & High...
    11 KB (1,153 words) - 01:27, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diversion dam
    itself dammed forming an onground or groundwater reservoir or a storm drain. An early diversion dam is the Ancient Egyptian Sadd el-Kafara Dam at Wadi...
    7 KB (851 words) - 00:19, 23 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fort Randall Dam
    Fort Randall Dam is a 2.03-mile-long (3 km) earthen dam which spans the Missouri River and impounds Lake Francis Case, the 11th-largest reservoir in the...
    8 KB (580 words) - 16:58, 23 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Godavari River
    Trimbakeshwar, Nashik, Maharashtra. It flows east for 1,465 kilometres (910 mi), draining the states of Maharashtra (48.6%), Telangana (18.8%), Andhra Pradesh (4...
    75 KB (6,987 words) - 15:21, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tempe Town Lake
    Tempe Town Lake (section Dam)
    the west side of the dam that contained the water in the lake collapsed, sending a flood of water into the Salt River and draining the lake. In March 1989...
    22 KB (2,671 words) - 20:11, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rana Pratap Sagar Dam
    The Rana Pratap Sagar Dam is a gravity masonry dam of 53.8 metres (177 ft) height built on the Chambal River at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan in India. It is...
    14 KB (1,656 words) - 02:30, 20 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for St. Francis Dam
    The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California...
    77 KB (10,358 words) - 20:16, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Austin Dam failure (Texas)
    Texas that killed several dozen people in 1900. The destruction of the dam drained the Lake McDonald reservoir and left the city of Austin without electrical...
    6 KB (373 words) - 01:59, 30 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kakhovka Dam
    suggested that one of the purposes of draining the reservoir might have been to flood the area south of the dam, in order to keep Ukrainian Forces from...
    33 KB (2,509 words) - 01:49, 29 May 2024
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