Prior to the flood, speculators had purchased the abandoned reservoir, made less than well-engineered repairs to the old dam, raised the lake level, built cottages and a clubhouse, and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.

Northern Rhodesia had decided earlier in 1953 ( before the Federation was founded ) to build a dam within its territory, on the Kafue River, a major tributary of the Zambezi.

The construction produced a tremendous economic boom, as thousands of Paraguayans who had never before held a regular job went to work on the enormous dam.

The dog's name was used as a single codeword whose transmission conveyed that the Möhne dam had been breached.

When the dam had filled, which might take up to a year, the gate was opened and the logs floating above the dam were pushed out through the hole and swept down to the sea.

On 10 February, the Schwammenauel dam was taken by American forces, although the Germans had jammed open the dam's floodgates a day earlier, flooding the Rur Valley and delaying the U. S. advance to the Rhine for two further weeks, until 23 February, when the flood waters had receded.

By 1907, in an effort to regulate water flow for irrigation purposes, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation had constructed a log crib dam at the Snake River outlet of Jackson Lake.

Apart from that, they displayed a high degree of inventiveness, introducing most of the other basic dam designs which had been unknown until then.

On 18 March 2007, the tephra dam which had been holding back the crater lake burst, sending a lahar down the mountain.

The dam had raised the water level in the reservoir to above sea level by the end of 2008 and the design maximum level of by October 2010.

The breaking of the Mohne and the Eder dam, though the cost was small, also had limited effect.

On October 14, 1978, the Paraná River had its route changed, which allowed a section of the riverbed to dry so the dam could be built there.

An earthen dam in the ravine had held loam pulp that had been pumped from the local brick factories for ten years without sufficient drainage.

Thus, if a pogrom had occurred in Radom, it would surely have been rationalized by ra dam ‘ of bad blood ’.

At the dam goods had to be loaded onto other vessels and the inhabitants of Edam could levy a toll.

It had been used to haul materials for the dam across the flat top of the mountain.

TVA spent two decades trying to fix a leakage problem that had plagued Hales Bar since its construction, but after continued leakage, and after it was determined that expanding the dam's navigation lock would be too expensive, TVA decided to replace the dam by building Nickajack Dam 6 miles ( 9. 7 km ) downstream in 1968, flooding the Nickajack Cave.

As a result of the dam completion and operation, the temperature of the downstream Clinch River bed changed, so that a former pearl industry which had been successful for many years evaporated as the mussels, once prevalent in the river, were not able to sustain life in the changed climate.

However, the barges had to cross the Delaware via a rope ferry across a " slackwater dam " that created bottlenecks in the canal traffic, and added greatly to the cost of transportation.

This dam washed out, as the first had done, and Little Falls entered a long period of economic depression and stagnation as far as population growth.

Smallville depicts her as Clark's ( Tom Welling ) cousin, whose spacecraft became trapped in stasis until the events of the sixth season finale, when the destruction of the dam that the ship had landed nearby disrupted the stasis systems and allowed Kara to wake up.

To replace these wetland ecosystem services enormous amounts of money had to be spent on water purification plants, along with the remediation measures for controlling floods: dam and levee construction.

Since Syria built a dam on the Euphrates, the flow of water has been considerably diminished and flooding was no longer a problem in the mid-1980s.

Investments include the expansion of irrigated agriculture to improve food security, the construction of the Taoussa ( or Tossaye ) dam in Mali and the Kandadji Dam in Niger ( the latter has been under construction since August 2008 ), as well as the rehabilitation of the Kainji dam and Jebba dam in Nigeria.

This dam has locks, but they have not always operated well, and the river has been little used from Khartoum to the port of Kusti, a railroad crossing 319 kilometers upstream.

The dam on the Kennebec was removed in 1999 and the area around the dam has been turned into a city park.

Though there are not documents to prove this story, Hagbard himself generally told people that he was an engineer building a dam during his time with the Mohawk because he was ashamed at having been a lawyer.

The Cornalvo Dam | Roman dam at Cornalvo in Spain has been in use for almost two millennia.

Due to its effects on the way of life of the rural residents of the Angara valley, dam construction has been criticized by a number of Soviet intellectuals, in particular the Irkutsk writer Valentin Rasputin both in his novel Farewell to Matyora and in his non-fiction book, Siberia, Siberia.

He has also been seen living at the Springfield Retirement Castle and ( in a deleted scene ) he is shown to live in a small house directly below the dam that was erected ( and subsequently destroyed ) in " Brother from Another Series ".

The dam has been a controversial topic both domestically and abroad.

One such facility, ( the only one of its kind currently operating ) the Annapolis Royal Generating Station consists of a dam and 18-MW power house on the Annapolis River at Annapolis Royal, but larger proposals have been held back by a number of factors, including environmental concerns.

However, others might have conceived of ra dam as having deep intrinsic truth, which might have been religiously and homiletically based.

Engineered drainages, such as the avalanche dam on Mount Stephen in Kicking Horse Pass, have been constructed to protect people and property, by redirecting the flow of avalanches.

Originally, Walcheren was an island, but polders and a dam across the Oosterschelde have connected it to the ( former ) island of Zuid-Beveland, which in turn has been connected to the North Brabant mainland.

It was originally designed to carry water all the way to Devonport Dockyard, but has since been shortened and the operational part of the leat now stops near the Burrator dam.

By 1903 Perrine, who had been a successful farmer and rancher in the Snake River Canyon, had obtained private financing from Milner and others under the provisions of the Carey Act of 1894 to build a dam on the Snake River near Caldron Linn.

Two U. S. companies built Volta Aluminum Company ( Valco ), Africa's largest aluminium smelter, to use power generated at the dam.

To prevent floods from damaging the strategically important border town Dara, an advanced arch dam was built.

The Upper Sûre dam was built in the 1960s to meet the country's drinking water requirements.

* Narmada Bachao Andolan, a political movement in India against a dam built on the Narmada River

El Atazar Dam is a major dam built near Madrid to provide a water supply.

In the 1960s, the " Aluminum Company of America " ( Alcoa ) built a US $ 150-million dam for the production of hydroelectric energy at Afobaka ( the Brokopondo Reservoir south of Brokopondo ), which created a 1, 560 km² lake, one of the largest artificial lakes in the world.

A dam built in 1973 on the Euphrates created a reservoir named Lake Assad, the largest lake in Syria.

The dam, built in 1914, was bombed and destroyed by British aircraft in May 1943, causing massive destruction and approximately 70 deaths downstream, but was rebuilt within four months.

In 1837, a dam was built across the Kennebec where the falls drop 15 feet at the head of tide.

There are very few successful spawning populations of freshwater striped bass, including Lake Texoma, the Colorado River and its reservoirs downstream from and including Lake Powell, and the Arkansas River as well as Lake Marion ( South Carolina ) that retained a landlocked breeding population when the dam was built ; other freshwater fisheries must be restocked with hatchery-produced fish annually.

There is also a big dam built just after the source of the river at Trimbakeshwar.

This dam was built to address the problem of drought in Marathwada region and problem of flood along the bank of river.

Chinese engineers built a dam to divert the Wen River to the southwest in order to feed 60 % of its water north into the Grand Canal, with the remainder going south.

Their pioneering use of water-proof hydraulic mortar and particularly Roman concrete allowed for much larger dam structures than previously built, such as the Lake Homs Dam, possibly the largest water barrier to that date, and the Harbaqa Dam, both in Roman Syria.

A sub-surface dam is built across an aquifer or drainage route from an impervious layer ( such as solid bedrock ) up to just below the surface.

Once built, the water stored behind the dam raises the water table and is then extracted with wells.

A sand-storage dam is a weir built in stages across a stream or wadi.

In the construction of a hydraulic fill dam, the edges of the dam are defined by low embankments or dykes which are built upward as the fill progresses.

Artificial and dam lakes were built in the last century.

In the 1940s a dam was built on the river to manage the flood control and reduced its level.

The city's rapid development commenced with the announcement in 1952 that a dam and hydroelectric plant would be built at Bratsk on the Angara River.

* 1000 – Milling dam ( Pul-i-Bulaiti ), used to provide additional power for milling, built at Karun, Iran