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The Pati Dam in India has a length of 1,050 meters and a maximum height of 34 meters. The reservoir formed by the dam has a storage capacity of approximately 48.84 million cubic meters of water.
A bear-trap dam is a movable dam in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.
The parts of a river are the source, channel, mouth, meander, oxbow lake, tributary, distributary, and sometimes there can be a dam which will create a reservoir.
Grand Lake O' the Cherokees dam in Oklahoma is only 1568 mt long, Hirakud Dam in Orissa, India is the longest in the world. It is 26 km or 16 miles long. The Afsluitdijk in the Netherlands, build between 1927 and 1932, is 30 km long (32.5 km if you take the parts on land into account). It divides the Zuiderzee (now called IJsselmeer) and the Waddenzee so it is really a dam not a dijk.
List of reservoirs and dams in Pakistan• Diamer-Bhasha Dam• Gomal Zam Dam Project• Hub Dam• Kalabagh Dam• Karoonjhar Dam• Mangla Dam• Mirani Dam• Namal Dam• Rawal Dam• Shadikor Dam• Tarbela Dam• Warsak Dam
The population of Dam Dam is 36.
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Basava Sagar Dam Almatti Dam Srisailam Dam Nagarjuna Sagar Dam Prakasham Barrage Jurala Dam Dhom Dam Narayanpur Dam Amar Dam
A dam is a structure which controls the amount of water flowing. Silt build up is a type of problem many dams face. Silt is a type of sediment which builds up around the dam, as all water contains some form of silt or debris. Some problems caused by silt build up are erosion of dam parts, abrasion to dam materials, and damage to the dam turbines.
There are six of them on the Colorado river. Glenn Canyon dam, Hoover dam, Davis dam, Parker dam, Palo Verde diversion dam and Imperial dam.
The Aswan dam is an embankment dam.
One time a Dam man went to drink the Dam water. He was all out of Dam water so he went and got his Dam bucket to fill it up with Dam water from the Dam well. His Dam well was empty, so he went to another Dam man to get Dam water. He asked the Dam man," Can I have some Dam water, Please?" The Dam man Replied, "Get your own Dam water!"