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The dam was privately constructed by the developers Arthur D. Crane and Herbert L. Closs.
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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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The Derwent Valley Museum, located on the Derwent Reservoir dam and run privately by Vic Hallam, tells the history of the Derwent valley and of Derwent, Ashopton and Birchinlee as well as the tale of RAF Squadron 617 and its training for Operation Chastise during the Second World War.
Quite recently, a small dam has been built so as to hold rainwater but that part of the island is privately owned and not accessible for tourists.
Most of the access areas between the public put-in at the dam on the Upper Gauley and the last take-out for the Lower Gauley at Swiss are privately owned by rafting companies.
At that time the two lakes were separated by an earthen dam, and South Lake and the land east of North Lake beach were privately owned.
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Typically a dam is constructed on a river, creating an artificial lake behind it.
Kauri logs were dragged to a convenient stream bed with steep sides and a driving dam was constructed of wood with a lifting gate near the bottom large enough for the logs to pass through.
A large dam is also constructed to divert water from the Wen River southwest into the Grand Canal.
By 1907, in an effort to regulate water flow for irrigation purposes, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation had constructed a log crib dam at the Snake River outlet of Jackson Lake.
The dam is constructed with an earth core and rock filled walls, rising to a height of 180 metres making it Australia's highest dam.
A saddle dam is an auxiliary dam constructed to confine the reservoir created by a primary dam either to permit a higher water elevation and storage or to limit the extent of a reservoir for increased efficiency.
An auxiliary dam is constructed in a low spot or saddle through which the reservoir would otherwise escape.
Typically, a base or starter dam is constructed and as it fills with a mixture of tailings and water, it is raised.
An upstream tailings dam consists of trapezoidal embankments being constructed on top but toe to crest of another, moving the crest further upstream.
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.
A temporary dam was constructed to divert the flow of water to the Canadian side ; the dam measured across and was made of nearly 30, 000 tons of rock.
This effectively eliminated any further possibility of a dam being constructed and preserved the Red River and its Gorge as we know it.
Engineered drainages, such as the avalanche dam on Mount Stephen in Kicking Horse Pass, have been constructed to protect people and property, by redirecting the flow of avalanches.
An enormous dam is being constructed on the Rio Fuerte, which poses major environmental problems and may lead to massive losses of tropical forest and habitats.
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The writer Arundhati Roy is famous for her anti-nuclear position and her activism against India's massive hydroelectric dam project, sponsored by the World Bank.
In many upstream areas cut off from the ocean by dams, sturgeon simply live upstream of the dam.
Under some conditions, forests and peat bogs may become sources of CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, such as when a forest is flooded by the construction of a hydroelectric dam.
Initial extrapolations placed Cooper's landing area on the southernmost outreach of Mount St. Helens, a few miles southeast of Ariel, Washington, near Lake Merwin, an artificial lake formed by a dam on the Lewis River.
* 1972 – The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
Three-quarter siblings are horses out of the same dam, and are by sires that are either half-brothers ( i. e. same dam ) or who are by the same sire.
* 1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100, 000 in the Sichuan province of China.
Because the Naryn Basin, where many hydroelectric projects are located, is very active seismically, flooding is also a danger should a dam be broken by an earthquake.
Lake Kariba, the reservoir created by the dam, extends for with a storage capacity of 180 km³.
A 2005 book, " Deep Water " by Jacques Leslie focused on the plight of the people resettled by the dam, and found the situation little changed.
Their report states: " The Gwembe Tonga on the Zambian side and the Zimbabwean Tonga are one ; but due to separation brought about by the dam, they are now considered different people.
The proposed fourth dam, at the town of Daugavpils on the Daugava River, became the rallying point for protest in 1986-87 by hundreds of thousands of Latvians.
The most significant ones are in Tungurahua province-namely a large span over the exact point of headwaters, just north of Baños, and the secondary span created by the Agoyan dam.
At the village of Isola Serafini in the comune of Monticelli d ' Ongina, Piacenza Province, downstream from Piacenza, a long, high gate dam featuring eleven openings gated by vertical lift gates, crosses the Po.
Fueled by this support, the government of Louis St. Laurent decided over the course of 1951 and 1952 to construct the waterway alone, combined with the Moses-Saunders Power Dam ( which would prove to be the joint responsibility of Ontario and New York: as a power dam would change the water levels, it required bilateral cooperation ).
In the United States, it is now illegal to block the migration of fish, for example the endangered great white sturgeon in North America, so fish ladders must be provided by dam builders.
Construction of this dam is under legal challenge by environment and indigenous groups, who assert the dam would have negative environmental and social impacts along with reducing the flow by up to 80 % along a stretch known as the " Big Bend " ( Volta Grande ).
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