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Black Canyon Diversion Dam, on the Payette River near Emmett, Idaho, is a concrete gravity type dam with an ogee overflow spillway. The dam has a structural height of 183 feet and serves to divert water to the Payette Division through Black Canyon Canal.
Anderson Ranch Dam and Powerplant is a multiple purpose structure that provides benefits of irrigation, power, and flood and silt control. The dam is 456 feet high and is on the South Fork of the Boise River, 28 miles northeast of Mountain Home.
The dam was built at the site of a natural falls called Albeni Falls, named after an early settler, Albeni Poirier.
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…
Yellowtail is part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program that provides irrigation water, flood control, recreation and power generation.
Libby Dam Project is a multi-purpose water resource development. Its purposes are flood reduction, hydropower, recreation, and environmental stewardship. We recognize that our day to day activities in operating a facility such as Libby Dam have a direct…
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.
Named for an old trading post of the 1860’s, Fort Peck Dam is one of six multipurpose main stem projects which operate as part of a system on the upper Missouri River. Construction of Fort Peck Dam near…
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.
Lost Creek is an earthfill structure with a gated spillway. Jess Dam was the first of three multi-purpose storage projects completed in the Rogue River Basin project. Jess Dam’s authorized primary purposes include flood risk management, water quality improvement, irrigation, fish and wildlife habitat enhancement and recreation.