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The dam was controversial from the start because it would block fish migration and its reservoir would flood a large portion of the winter range of elk in the Clearwater River basin.
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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.
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Especially controversial was the Hetch Hetchy dam in Yosemite National Park, which Roosevelt approved, and which supplies the water supply of San Francisco.
The dam has been a controversial topic both domestically and abroad.
The controversial Belo Monte Dam is a proposed hydroelectric dam complex on the Xingu River which threatens a relatively undisturbed area of Pará's rainforest, including several endemic fish species.
Robert Caro, in his book " Years of Lyndon Johnson: Path to Power ", states that, in 1937, Douglas helped persuade President Roosevelt to authorize a controversial dam, the Marshall Ford Dam, that was a key to cementing Johnson's power as a congressman.
* Mid-October-A court in the western state of Gujarat rules in favour of the vertical extension of the controversial Sardar Sarovar dam on the River Narmada.
National's support for a controversial aluminium smelter at Aramoana, another of Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon's Think Big projects of the late 1970s and early 1980s, was one justification propounded for the dam.
A controversial construction project of a huge 1055 megawatt hydroelectric power plant dam is ongoing.
The Namibian government has proposed building the Epupa Dam, a controversial hydroelectric dam on the Cunene.
The controversial Pak Mun dam is located near the confluence with the Mekong.
The dam is one of India's most controversial dam projects and its environmental impact and net costs and benefits are widely debated.
The proposed construction of the hydro power dam in the 1960s and 1970s contained controversial propositions such as putting a village ( Máze ) and a cemetery under water.
The construction of the dam was highly controversial.
Caccamo holds some great views of the surrounding countryside, including the Rosmarina artificial lake, which was created by a controversial dam built in 1993.
The controversial Tehri dam lies at the confluence of the Bhāgirathi and the Bhilangna, at, near Tehri.
The controversial construction of the Haweswater dam started in 1929, after Parliament passed an Act giving the Manchester Corporation permission to build the reservoir to supply water for the urban conurbations of north-west England.
To prevent further flooding, the ESB made a controversial decision to release water from the Inniscarra hydro-electric dam.
There are also several dams along the river including the controversial Estabrook dam.
* In 1981, the Tasmanian government held a controversial referendum to decide the location of a hydro-electric dam on the Franklin River.
Construction of the Tellico Dam was controversial and marks a turning point in American attitudes toward dam construction.
Tocks Island, located upstream from Delaware Water Gap in the Delaware River was the controversial site of a dam, proposed in the 1950s, which would have created a 37-mile ( 60-km ) long lake between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with depths of up to 140 feet.
The dam has proved controversial for its displacement of 10, 000 people from the flooded area, and for its environmental and health-related impacts.
* Three Gorges Dam a controversial dam project in China
Although it might appear that the dam was well accepted in the area there were some controversial issues.
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