The dam was 72 feet ( 22 m ) high and 931 feet ( 284 m ) long.

Between 1881 when the club was opened, and 1889, the dam frequently sprang leaks and was patched, mostly with mud and straw.

In 2007, the destruction of the Marmot Dam on the Sandy River was the first dam removal in the system.

The Hetch Hetchy dam was finished in 1923 and is still in operation, but the Sierra Club still wants to tear it down.

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.

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.

In 1988 Turkey was also constructing a dam on the Euphrates that would further restrict the water flow.

* 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at.

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

The double curvature concrete arch dam was constructed between 1955 and 1959 by Impresit of Italy at a cost of $ 135, 000, 000 for the first stage with only the Kariba South power cavern.

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.

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

The construction of the dam was endorsed in 1959, however, after the purge of relatively liberal and nationally oriented leaders under Eduards Berklavs and their replacement by Moscow-oriented, ideologically conservative cadres led by Arvīds Pelše.

This dam was not constructed, in spite of the vast expenditures already poured into the project.

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

A north-flowing river was temporarily dammed southwest of present-day Louisville, creating a large lake until the dam burst.

The Agoyan dam was placed in that location specifically to leave the famous Falls of Agoyan, about 5 km further downstream, intact.

The dam then broke in 1641 when the traditional retrospective reverence for Thomas Cranmer and other martyred bishops in the Acts and Monuments was displaced by forward-looking attitudes to prophecy, among radical Puritans.

News that North Korea was constructing a huge multipurpose dam at the base of Geumgangsan ( 1, 638 m ) north of the DMZ caused considerable consternation in South Korea during the mid-1980s.

Though Seoul completed a " Peace Dam " on the Pukhan River to counteract the potential threat of Pyongyang's dam project before the 1988 Olympics, the North Korean project apparently still was in its initial stages of construction in 1990.

Man-made features have also introduced restrictions, the most important of which was a dam constructed in the 1930s on the White Nile about forty kilometers upriver from Khartoum.

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.

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

* 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