" However, most of the criticism is of the lack of actual special effects work, as most of it consists of stock footage from previous films, including Godzilla vs. Gigan and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and a few pieces of effects work has garnered praise, specifically a scene where Megalon breaks through a dam and the draining of the lake.

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.

Each country has its own power station on the north and south bank of the dam respectively.

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.

The Pastaza has numerous tributaries, both above and below the hydroelectric dam.

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 Dostluk dam, opened at Serakhs on the Iranian border in 2005, has increased available irrigation water and improved efficiency.

A dam on the Río Negro at Paso de los Toros has created a reservoir — the Embalse del Río Negro — that is the largest artificial lake in South America.

The dam has also become a " favorite spot " for predatory fish to congregate, feasting on the salmon that get trapped both above and below the dam.

The Dam Safety Interest Group of CEA Technologies, Inc. ( CEATI ), a consortium of electrical power organizations, has applied Spread-spectrum time-domain reflectometry to identify potential faults in concrete dam anchor cables.

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

A human-made dam in the gorge has created Lake Crowley, a partial restoration of the original lake.

Near Barrage Cavagnac, there is a hydroelectric dam that has created the artificial lake Lalla Takerkoust.

This dam has major contribution in industrial development of Aurangabad Maharashtra.

The dam has created an artificial lake over a portion of the river, called Sapung Lake.

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

A centerlined dam has sequential embankment dams constructed directly on top of another while fill is placed on the downstream side for support and slurry supports the upstream side.

While flowing from the sluices, coarse material is deposited first and then finer material is deposited ( fine material has a slower terminal velocity thus takes longer to settle, see Stoke's Law ) as the flow velocity is reduced towards the center of the dam.

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.

Recently, the Gujarat government has announced its plans to build a 182 m tall statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel near the main dam, which will be the world's tallest statue.

A third turbine at Buksefjord brought its capacity up to 45 MW in 2008 ; in 2007, a second, 7. 2MW dam was constructed at Qorlortorsuaq ; and in 2010, a third, 15MW dam was constructed at Sisimiut.

Lake Kariba, the reservoir created by the dam, extends for with a storage capacity of 180 km³.

Also, the capacity of the Kafue dam was much lower than Kariba.

In February 2005, South Africa's state-owned power company, Eskom, announced a proposal to increase the capacity of the Inga dramatically through improvements and the construction of a new hydroelectric dam.

Coupling the dam's 32 main turbines with two smaller generators ( 50 MW each ) to power the plant itself, the total electric generating capacity of the dam is 22, 500 MW.

As well as producing electricity, the dam is intended to increase the Yangtze River's shipping capacity and reduce the potential for floods downstream by providing flood storage space.

The dam is owned by Erie Boulevard Hydropower LP, and has a generation capacity of approximately 1 megawatt.

The high dam can increase the lake's capacity by.

The capacity of the dam was enlarged in 1911.

There is a dam on Cache Creek to increase the lake's capacity and to regulate outflow.

The upstream cofferdam was high, and it alone could store several million acre-feet of water to protect the dam site from flooding in the event that inflows exceeded the capacity of the diversion tunnels.

At the beginning of June dam operators opened the gates on the left spillway, sending, just 7. 2 % of capacity, down the tunnel into the river below.

In fact, the primary function of the dam is power production ; it wields more than 75 % of the hydroelectric capacity of the entire Colorado River Storage Project.

The dam has a rated capacity of 1, 038 megawatts and annually generates over 4 million megawatt-hours.

Through a series of upgrades and the installation of pump-generators, the dam now supplies four power stations with an installed capacity of 6, 809 MW.

Designed to carry vehicular traffic, the dam wall is 51 metres high and 1, 616 metres long, and at 100 % capacity can hold 3, 036, 500 megalitres of water.

Each meter the water level rose was equivalent to 20 million cubic meters, which meant that 4, 800 million cubic meters of water would release into the San Pedro River ( easily overpowering its flow capacity of per second if it rose above the final, 24-meter-high dam.

The reservoir of this dam has a capacity of 0. 7 km < sup > 3 </ sup >.

At the time, the reservoir as planned, was to have a capacity of 30, 000 acre-feet and called for a dam to be built to the elevation of 1825 ( 556. 26m ) feet above sea level.

The dam was redesigned, losing a sluice channel and cutting its generation capacity from 612 MW to 432 MW.

The reservoir created by the dam, Lake Volta, has a capacity of and a surface area of.

The second reservoir is separated from the sedimentation pond by a dam and has a capacity of 4. 5 million m³.

The dam generates 279 MW of power with a peaking capacity of 300 MW.

It was a 1, 568 ft long, 135 ft wide and 2. 5 ft thick zone type dam with a water storage capacity of 1, 685, 000 acre feet.