Shasta: Sacramento River, CA
Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam before its construction) is an arch dam across the Sacramento River in the northern part of the U.S. state of California, at the north end of the Sacramento Valley. The dam mainly serves…
Bureau of Reclamation
Yellowtail: Bighorn River, MT
Yellowtail is part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program that provides irrigation water, flood control, recreation and power generation.
Hungry Horse: Flathead River, MT
Hungry Horse Dam is 564-feet-high and has a variable-thickness concrete arch structure with a crest length of 2,115 ft. The spillway is the highest morning-glory structure in the world.
Canyon Ferry: Missouri River, MT
Canyon Ferry Dam and Powerplant are on the Missouri River about 1.5 miles downstream from the original Canyon Ferry Dam and the Montana Power Company’s 6,700 kilowatt in the backwater Hauser Lake. The dam is a concrete gravity structure approximately 1,000 feet in length along the crest with a structural height of 225 feet.
Roza: Yakima River, WA
Roza Diversion Dam, located 10 miles north of Yakima, diverts water from the Yakima River. The dam is a concrete weir, movable crest structure, 486 feet long at the crest, 67 feet high, and contains 21,700 cubic yards of concrete.
Grand Coulee: Columbia River, WA
Grand Coulee Dam is owned and operated by the Bureau of Reclamation in Grand Coulee, WA. As the largest producer of hydropower in the United States, Grand Coulee Dam produces an average of 21,000,000,000 kWh of power each…