The dam's powerplant is operated as a " cash register " power station, meaning that sales of the electricity it generates was used to pay for the original construction cost and is used for maintenance needs as well as a source of revenue for the Bureau of Reclamation.

The dam's powerplant provides electricity for much of the north-central United States.

The concrete section of the Wolf Creek Dam consists of 37 gravity monoliths that comprise 547m of the dam's length, across the old river channel.

He attributed the failure to three major factors: the instability of the ancient landslide material on which the dam was built, the failure to compensate for the additional height added to the dam's design, and the design and construction being overseen by only one person.

The lake has crested the dam's spillway at a height of 640 ft ( 195. 07 m ) three times: once in 1957, again in 1990, and most recently on July 7, 2007.

About 65 % of the dam's foundation area is founded on quartzite and phyllite bedrock ; the remainder is founded on dense alluvium that fills three buried channels, which are up to deep.

The dam's spillway is located in the center of its body and is wide, containing three main wide and high radial gates.

The dam's original design called for the installation of three generators, but with the outbreak of World War II in 1941, energy demand in the region skyrocketed, and the design was modified to include a fourth and fifth generator.

The dam's hydroelectric power station contains three 55 megawatt ( MW ) Francis turbines with a combined capacity of 165 MW.

The resulting force ruined the power station and the dam's control systems, making it impossible to gradually release water from the near-capacity dam by conventional means.

The heavy crib structure supported the dam's face and the weight of the water.

Some dams along the scarp are contaminated by seepage of saline water from the granite into the base of the dam's water column and must be periodically flushed to preserve water quality.

The dam's spillway can cope with 3, 400 cubic metres of water per second, about 10 times the mean river flow.

Since the 1960s and in 1970s, when Turkey began the GAP project in earnest, water disputes have regularly occurred in addition to the associated dam's effects on the environment.

Erosion has worn the dam away, causing holes and pockets to develop in the dam's upper layer, and water already passes through the lower section.

As the center-piece of the Columbia Basin Project, the dam's reservoir supplies water for the irrigation of.

In, once the west foundation was complete, portions of the west cofferdam were dismantled, allowing water to flow through part of the dam's new foundation.

The reservoir was full and the first water flowed over the dam's spillway on, 1942, while work was officially complete on, 1943.

Study of the dam's environment and structure placed blame for the collapse on the permeable loess soil used in the core and on fissured ( cracked ) rhyolite in the foundations of the dam that allowed water to seep under the dam.

It is postulated that the combination of these flaws allowed water to seep through the dam and led to internal erosion, called piping, that eventually caused the dam's collapse.

The dam's increased height also necessitated the construction of a 588 foot ( 179. 2m ) wing wall to be built along the top of the ridge of the western abutment to prevent water from spilling over the ridge.

The dam's failure unleashed a torrent of 20 million tons of water ( 4. 8 billion U. S. gallons ; 18. 2 million cubic meters ; 18. 2 billion litres ).

To solve this problem, Reclamation shuts off operations of the dam's hydroelectric power plant when water levels are drastically low, but this results in power shortages.

The high water presented an opportunity to test large water releases through the dam's outlet works, but the trial had to be cancelled because the high flows destroyed sections of the concrete tunnel lining.

) The construction in 1905 of a dam on the Green River in the interim caused the passage to be flooded ( and therefore inaccessibly hidden by murky water ) most of the time after the dam's completion, and the passage was rediscovered backwards, from its remote end, by cavers entering the Flint Ridge Cave System.

The dam's height is 166 meters, the arch length 305 meters, water accumulation volume 465 million cubic meters, the reservoir has a total shoreline ( perimeter ) length of 28km.

The dam's purpose is to re-regulate releases from Hoover Dam and facilitate the delivery of Colorado River water to Mexico.

The dam's hydroelectric power plant is located on the west side of the spillway and is supplied with water via a diameter penstock.

The water level passed the state limit on January 15 and by early 1983, the water had risen so high that it crested the dam's emergency spillway.

As a result of the dam's construction, the Nile actually begins its flow into Egypt as Lake Nasser, which extends southwards from the dam for 320 km to the border and for an additional 158 km within Sudan.

Her storyline sees her simultaneously become the object of Lex Luthor's ( Michael Rosenbaum ) obsessions-after she saved him from drowning in the dam's destruction-and Jimmy Olsen's ( Aaron Ashmore ) affections, suffer a bout of amnesia, discover her father's ( Christopher Heyerdahl ) sinister motives and become a target of evil android Brainiac ( James Marsters ).

The journal of the dam's keeper from 1882 to 1890 still survives, briefly describing log drives and jams and the flood of 1884.

Only two years after the dam's completion in 1916, it was decided that the flow from the reservoir was insufficient to support the surrounding population.

A wide-ranging controversy ensued from the dam's collapse.

After the flood, victims suffered a series of legal defeats in their attempt to recover damages from the dam's owners.

* In February 1999, the Supreme Court of India gave the go ahead for the dam's height to be raised to from the initial.

Fill used in the embankment was excavated from the Santa Ana River canyon directly below the dam, the alluvial fan of the river north of Mentone, and a cut in a ridge directly southeast of the dam that now serves as the dam's spillway.

The dam's current license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) was issued in March 1959, and expires in February 2009.

Construction started with the excavation of millions of tons of bedrock from the canyon walls adjacent to the construction site to provide keyways to lay the dam's foundations.

The dam's tailwaters are part of Melton Hill Lake, which stretches for along the Clinch from Norris to Melton Hill Dam.

After the flood, victims suffered a series of legal defeats in their attempt to recover damages from the dam's owners.

The present Volta River flows from the outlets of the dam's powerhouse and spillways to the Atlantic Ocean in southmost Ghana.

In fact, the complex was not underwater only when the dam's sluices were open, from July to October.

The dam is the technical boundary between the Watts Bar Lake — which it impounds — and Chickamauga Lake, which stretches from the dam's tailwaters southward to Chattanooga.

The dam's navigational lock is, and raises and lowers vessels from Watts Bar Lake to Chickamauga Lake and vice-versa.

The dam's primary purpose is to control the runoff from, or about 92 percent, of the watershed of the Stanislaus River, a major tributary of the San Joaquin River.

Much of the embankment fill came from an excavation site shortly northwest of the dam, which would later serve as the dam's spillway.

Before the expansion of the dam through the Casecnan Project in the 1990s, it is a scene during summer season to see the belfry of the 18 ' th century church resurfaces from the dam's low water level.