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The dam was named in honor of Nebraska Senator George Norris ( 1861 – 1944 ), a longtime supporter of government-owned power in general, and supporter of TVA in particular.
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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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A dam built in 1973 on the Euphrates created a reservoir named Lake Assad, the largest lake in Syria.
The dam created a reservoir named Lake Assad ( Buhayrat al Assad ), a body of water about 80 kilometers long and averaging eight kilometers in width.
There are three raised tailings dam designs, the upstream, downstream and centerline, named according to the movement of the crest during raising.
The original sire was Tell, an English Pointer belonging to Kaiser Frederick III and the original dam was a German hunting pudel named Molly who was owned by Hegewald, an author known for works on hunting dogs.
It is named for W. Graham Claytor ( 1886 – 1971 ) of Roanoke, Virginia, a vice president of Appalachian Power and supervised construction of the dam and creation of the lake.
The lake created by the dam was named Lake Greeson in Greeson's honor.
In 1963, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers created Lake Walter F. George ( unofficially named Lake Eufaula ) behind the lock and dam of Fort Gaines, Georgia, once again assuring Eufaula's importance as an inland port.
James M. " Miles " Williams, who built a dam, saw mill and later a grist mill in town, eventually platted the land in 1845 and named the town " Williamstown " after himself.
* East Comstock is a named place located just east of the community of Comstock on M-96, near the dam forming Morrow Lake on the Kalamazoo River at.
The settlement was named for Manazipe Perron, who built a dam and sawmill here in 1883, and became the first postmaster on September 11, 1897.
A grist-mill dam built in 1866 created the falls for which the town is named.
The park is named for the splash dam that Johnny McCall built on White Deer Creek in 1850.
It replaced an earlier dam that had been built by a resident named W. S.
The village, in St. Lawrence Township, was named in honor of a founder, Caleb Smith Ogden, who, with partners, constructed a dam across St. Lawrence Creek.
Much of the village fronts on Lake Flower, which was created by a dam in the Saranac River and named after Governor Roswell P. Flower.
Blair argues for a date soon after the New Bedford River was built, however, since Welches Dam is named after Edmund Welche, who worked with Vermuyden, and the dam in question was originally built across the Old Bedford River.
Chief Joseph Dam is the second largest hydropower producer in the U. S. and is the only dam in the Northwest named after an American Indian.
This dam, named after the famous Crow chairman Robert Yellowtail, harnessed the waters of the Bighorn River and turned this variable stream into a lake.
The William Bacon Oliver Lock and Dam on the Black Warrior River in Alabama is named after him, as is the Oliver Lake behind the dam.
" was a long-running mystery until a reader informed Wellington that Boot's dam was named " Cherry Blossom.
The community was named after Amory Maynard, the man who, with William Knight, had bought water-rights to the Assabet River, installed a dam and built a large carpet mill in 1846-47.
The dam is named for the nearby city of Mossyrock, and the lake for the town of Riffe, which, along with Kosmos, was destroyed by the flooding of the Cowlitz River valley above the dam.
The dam was named after the premier because his vision played a major role in the project initiation, development and realization ; the reservoir was named after the premier ’ s trusted cabinet colleague Ray Williston.
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