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.

The plans for the dam were not scrapped however, and in 2005 the project resurfaced.

This particular type of growth is seen early in the fetus of a pregnant dam, which results in a calf that is born with two times the number of muscle fibers at birth than a calf with no myostatin gene mutation.

They fill in the gaps between the branches with a combination of weeds and mud until the dam impounds sufficient water to surround the lodge.

* Blood ( dam ): blood of kosher mammals and fowl is removed through salting, with special procedures for the liver which is very rich in blood

Lake Kariba, the reservoir created by the dam, extends for with a storage capacity of 180 km³.

The average flow at the dam is 854 m³ / s, with a 12, 800 m³ / s maximum.

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 ).

The deaths of two merry missionaries lead the agents to the plains of Brazil and a giant dam with no apparent purpose.

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 ).

The Red Bluff Diversion Dam, although not a large dam and equipped with fish passage facilities, also presents a major barrier.

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.

When they arrive Min is captured by the Seanchan and Egwene is collared with an a ' dam, a device used by the Seanchan to control women who can channel.

Critics felt that the film lacked star chemistry, with Burton having difficulty with the accent, and relied too heavily on Cinemascope special effects including an earthquake and a collapsing dam.

Though there are not documents to prove this story, Hagbard himself generally told people that he was an engineer building a dam during his time with the Mohawk because he was ashamed at having been a lawyer.

Panoramic picture of the artificial lake of Lalla Takerkoust near Barrage Cavagnac, with the hydroelectric dam ( far right )

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.

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.

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.

The Electric Power Pavilion included a-high fountain made to look like a hydroelectric dam, with the entrance to the pavilion through a tunnel in said " dam.

The amount of concrete used in the construction of the dam is estimated at 16 million cubic meters over 17 years.

The Dam Safety Interest Group of CEA Technologies, Inc. ( CEATI ), a consortium of electrical power organizations, has applied Spread-spectrum time-domain reflectometry to identify potential faults in concrete dam anchor cables.

This dam failed in 1910 and a new concrete Jackson Lake Dam replaced it by 1911.

* The Dibang Valley Dam in Arunachal Pradesh, India, will be completed, becoming India's largest hydroelectric dam and the tallest concrete dam in the world.

Hoover Dam, a concrete arch-gravity dam in Black Canyon of the Colorado | Black Canyon of the Colorado River.

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.

Made of concrete and steel, the dam is long and the top of the dam is above sea level.

The project used of concrete ( mainly for the dam wall ), 463, 000 tonnes of steel ( enough to build 63 Eiffel Towers ) and moved about of earth.

The concrete dam wall is high above the rock basis.

* The total length of the dam is 7235 m. The crest elevation is 225 m. Itaipu is actually four dams joined together — from the far left, an earth fill dam, a rock fill dam, a concrete buttress main dam, and a concrete wing dam to the right.

The developers bought several tracts of the former Newton Flat settlement when they heard the government planned to build a flood-control and power-generating concrete dam at the site.

Recently, the historic Dillsboro Dam and Powerhouse were lost to restore the Tuckasegee River's ecosystem, though there has been little change in the river except it now flows over a stone ledge rather than concrete dam.

" To address this threat, the Army Corps of Engineers completed a project in July 2010 that replaced the sand with more than 350 concrete walls and equipped the dam with sensors.