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The dam was the first and uppermost of several large-scale dams to be built on the Euphrates by Turkey.
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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 prestigious Inga Project was launched in the early 1970's and at that time the first dam was completed.
" Antero " is derived from the Spanish word " first ," as it was the first dam on the South Platte River near the river's origin.
Roman workforces also were the first to build dam bridges, such as the Bridge of Valerian in Iran.
Spillway on Llyn Brianne dam, Wales soon after first fill.
While flowing from the sluices, coarse material is deposited first and then finer material is deposited ( fine material has a slower terminal velocity thus takes longer to settle, see Stoke's Law ) as the flow velocity is reduced towards the center of the dam.
Wilson Dam, completed in 1924, was the first dam under the authority of TVA, created in 1933.
The mother and pup must learn each other's voices in the first few days after the pup is born, before the dam goes on her next hunt.
It was decided not to build the main dam first, but rather to test the waters with a smaller dam, the Amsteldiepdijk across the Amsteldiep separating the island of Wieringen from the North Holland mainland.
The name Edam originates from a dam on the little river E or IJe where the first settlement was located and which was therefore called IJedam.
The construction of Norris Dam, the first dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority, brought major changes to the county in the 1930s.
In 1811, the Norfleet family built the first dam at the millpond.
This dam washed out, as the first had done, and Little Falls entered a long period of economic depression and stagnation as far as population growth.
However, during the 1870s and early 1880s extensive programs of fencing, buildings and dam construction took place as the first phase of European permanent settlement occurred.
The city is home to the site of the first working hydroelectric dam in the world.
Orrin Thompson, from whom the community takes its name, built a dam across Freshwater Brook in 1828 and opened the first carpet mill in 1829.
Electricity was plentiful after the building of the dam and led to Rupert being one of the first cities in the world to have its streets lighted by electricity.
A natural drop in the Apple River made the location ideal as a dam and mill site, the first of which was built in 1829 by James Craig.
A natural drop in the Apple River made the location ideal as a dam and mill site, the first of which was built in 1829 by James Craig.
Its slogan, " Best Town in Illinois by a Dam Site ," is derived from the city's distinction of having the first lock and dam built on the Illinois River.
In 1867, Elkhart Hydraulic Company built the first hydroelectric dam across the St. Joseph River and by 1870, it powered the city.
Among the first projects in 1870 were a stone dam and a wrought iron bridge built on the Big Blue River.
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