Dams

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Greers Ferry Dam was created in 1962.

The largest known beaver dam was discovered in Montana, near Three Forks. It measures 14 feet (4.3 meters) high, was 2,140 feet (652.3 meters) long and 23 feet (7 meters) thick at the base. The longest beaver dam observed with Google Earth to date (October 2 2007) is located in Northern Alberta. The dam has a length of about 850 meters (2790 ft).

The world's largest body of water is the ocean. The oceans run together forming one very large body of water.

hydroelectric

It depends on how you look at it. While they provide us with a clean way of producing electricity, the water they dump back has too many minerals that erode the soil on the river banks too quickly. Also, It makes it very hard for fish to navigate around the dam and it can destroy wildlife as well.

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The returned water may cause erosion if it is not handled properly, but NOT by "minerals". The water already holds dissolved salts, and the hydroelectric plant has no effect on them. Any erosion is due to the flow from the power-station outlets being allowed to impinge on the river-bed or banks. Normally it is directed so it will do no harm.

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The obstruction to fish is a genuine problem, and many dams and weirs now have special "fish ladders" that allow migrating fish to pass upstream by swimming up a series of small cascades in a sloping channel shaped like a staircase with a pool on each tread.

A female mama goat.

Martinje Dam, Piva River, Montenegro.

The Farakka Barrage is situated on the Ganges River in the Indian state of West Bengal, near the border with Bangladesh. It was built to control water flow for irrigation and navigation purposes.

the Colorado river

There are lots of reasons why building a dam can cause conflict - some of the more common ones include:

* To create a dam, you are often flooding a large area (the flooding comes because the water no longer flows past the dam and gets accumulated in front of the dam), which can wipe out large areas of housing or wildlife habitat.

* The river that flowed past where the dam is built will likely disappear or be severely diminished, which can impact farmers that used the water for irrigation, villagers who fished/washed/relaxed in the river, and animals that relied on that water source.

* Conflict can also arise in remote areas where the creation of a dam can be an indicator of change to the region, that may be unwanted by local residents.

888-457-4076 is the number to the recorded generation schedule, updated daily at 17:00 hrs with information for the NEXT day. Full generation is 7 small and 4 large units.

877-457-2525 is the number to the recorded spill condition hotline, updated at 8 hr intervals starting 00:30, 08:30, 16:30 hrs. Useful in the Spring when waters run high.

Grand Coulee Dam

The word in waterway control can be written as dyke or dike. In the US, we use dike. A dike or dikes are a system of levees that control the level of water in a river or other waterway. Dikes control the height and flow of water beyond the point of the dike. When more than one dike exists, the plan can be called a Dike System or System of Dikes.

Dams come in all sizes. the Aswan Dam has a capacity of 107,000,000 square feet. The Hoover Dam has a capacity of 3, 250,000 cubic yards.

Both dams are on the Indus River.

This is not so... Mangla Dam is on the Jhelum and Tarbela, only, is on the Indus. My father helped build Mangla Dam and I lived there for 6 yrs in the 1960s

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rock are piled up to slow down the flow of water.this prevents gullies and furthur soil loss

1. Slope protection
2. Horizontal filter
3. Pervious shell
4. Transition filter
5. Impervious core
6. Rock toe

It is the biggest dam of India. They have a major role in development.

16,000 people built the hoover dam and it was ONLY men, no women

Kaptai Dam, Rangamati

Bhagirathi.

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