The Whitney Point dam rises 95 feet above the natural streambed, and is used to control water flow and prevent major flooding.

When the sea level rises and the tide begins to come in, the temporary increase in tidal power is channeled into a large basin behind the dam, holding a large amount of potential energy.

The dam rises 64 metres ( 209 feet ) in height, is almost long and has a width of at its base with a volume of 65, 000, 000 cubic meters.

The dam is 760 yards long and rises to a height of 51 feet at its highest point, which gives a depth of water of 38 feet.

It is a rubble-concrete dam constructed on Koyna River which rises in Mahabaleshwar, a hillstation in Sahyadri ranges.

The artificial lake formed by the dam rises 21 meters above the original level and covers 1600 square kilometers.

The west dam rises to above the valley floor.

With a crest elevation of, the dam rises for above the streambed.

* The East Fork Black River rises in Iron County and flows generally southwardly, through Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park where the Taum Sauk pumped storage plant Upper Reservoir dam breach caused severe damage to the Park.

The dam rises to a height of from the original valley floor.

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

Instead, the two of them end up saving the day together when the water of the dam becomes unprotected and it almost engulfs the Netherlands.

After the Low Dam was almost over-topped in 1946, the British administration decided that rather than raise the dam a third time, a second dam should be built some 7 km upriver.

This dam with twenty radial flood gates was almost completed when visited by the Queen and Prince Phillip in March 1963, then later completed and officially opened by then Prime Minister, ( Sir ) Robert Menzies on 20 July 1963 when he said that Kununurra and the Ord River Irrigation Area ( ORIA ) is ".. the most exciting place in Australia.

The original dam wall stood almost one mile west of the village.

The dam, at 27 m high, was built at an elevation of over 305m in rugged and almost inaccessible terrain, and involved the construction of some 6km of concrete aqueduct and nearly 13km of steel pipe in total ( four parallel pipelines ).

The addition made the original dam almost a mile long.

In 1973, when the dam was only half-built, but almost $ 5 million had already been spent on the project, large open fissures were encountered during excavation of the key trench near the right end of the dam, about 700 feet from the canyon wall.

In the positive phase, the predominant phase for the past twenty years, the air moves quickly and acts almost like a dam in preventing the intrusion of Arctic air into the mid-latitude regions.

The material on which the eastern abutment of the dam had been built was itself part of ancient landslide, but this would have been impossible for almost any geologists of the 1920s to detect.

The dam, almost identical in shape and design to the St. Francis Dam, was reinforced by piling tons of earth and rock on its face.

The dam has been almost entirely eroded since then.

* Between 1964 and 1984, almost all the usable land on Imbros had been expropriated, for inadequate compensation, for an army camp, a minimum-security prison, reforestation projects, a dam project, and a national park.

From December 2008 to January 2009, the DEP left the dam open almost three weeks too long, which caused the water level to drop almost a foot below the normal drawdown level.

Seven Oaks is a dry dam that serves almost exclusively for flood protection to Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.

The dam was poorly constructed and almost immediately the Torrens washed it away.

With the incorporation of the Francis turbine into almost every hydroelectric dam built since 1900, it is responsible for generating almost 1 / 5 of all the worlds electricity:

This dam marks the lowest of a string of hydroelectric and recreational dams that extend up the Upper Wisconsin almost to its headwaters.

The lake height is regulated by spillways that control the water flow out of the dam to obtain an almost constant height in wet or dry seasons.

The SEALs and GROM on foot fast-roped out of their helicopters and immediately stormed the dam.

In 1933 following dry years in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Province constructed a concrete control dam across the Fairford River immediately downstream of the channel.

London's Holocaust Memorial is situated at the eastern end of the Serpentine, immediately beyond the dam.

Image: Holocaust Mem Hyde Park. JPG | The Holocaust Memorial, immediately east of the dam

While the area of the Peace River immediately upstream of the dam was experiencing flooding, which gave rise to Williston Lake, downstream the Peace-Athabasca Delta was drying up.

When the dam failed, the flood struck several communities immediately downstream, particularly Wilford at the terminus of the canyon, Sugar City, Salem, Hibbard and Rexburg.

Concerned that the muddy color of the runoff he observed could indicate the water was eroding the foundation of the dam, he immediately alerted Mulholland.

This led to the suggestion she and the dam keeper may have been inspecting the dam immediately prior to its failure.

The dam lies immediately southeast and southwest of the Denver and Aurora city limits, respectively, approximately, as the crow flies, from the creek's confluence with the South Platte.

The resource consent set up legislation which could restore biological and recreational values to the lower river, particularly the section immediately below the dam.

The Truckee Canal enters at the northeastern end, immediately adjacent to the dam.

This is especially true immediately downstream from the outflow of Anderson Ranch reservoir, where the South Fork takes on the characteristics of a classic " tailwater " for over five miles from the put-in below the dam to Cow Creek Bridge.

The Doe River spills over a weir dam immediately downstream of the historic covered bridge, and then flows underneath two 1928 concrete arch bridges inside of Elizabethton.

All river tubes and kayaks must portage around the weir dam that is located immediately downstream of the covered bridge in downtown Elizabethton.

A dam was constructed immediately below Hawks Nest to divert most of the New River flow into the tunnel.

The act authorizing TVA's establishment ( signed on May 18, 1933 ) authorized TVA to immediately begin construction on a dam at the Cove Creek site.

Tailwater refers to waters located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam ( excluding minimum release such as for fish water ), bridge or culvert.

On the river bank, immediately to the south of the dam, the contractors erected three wharves where the timber was unloaded and placed on small 4-wheeled railway trucks for conveyance by horse teams, over a temporary tramway, to the company's depot which was established about midway between St. Peters and Sydenham railway stations.

Kingsclear, NB is also the site of an Atlantic Salmon fish hatchery, located immediately downstream from the dam.

Wolf Creek Dam is the 25th largest dam in the United States, and cost $ 15 million to construct originally, with an additional $ 65 million needed almost immediately to fix problems which became soon apparent.

The two rivers, which actually have a temperature difference of 2 ° C, merge not far from the Königsburg Ruins immediately before flowing into the Königshütte Dam ( a feeder dam or Überleitungssperre ).

The dam is located in the range immediately west of the city.