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[4matic]

Coulee dam001 by Neal Talaiver, on Flickr
Coulee dam002 by Neal Talaiver, on Flickr
Coulee dam004 by Neal Talaiver, on Flickr

 

[DavidWatts]

iPhone 13 Pro

 

[DavidWatts]

Sorry for the above. Serious photo this time. Lock and dam at Starved Rock State Park in Illinois, Oglesby, Illinois. From the top of the Rock. Illinois River below.

Canon SL1 100D, Canon 10-22 EF-s @ 14mm, f/6.3, 1/125, iso 100

 

[griffljg]

Chinaman Creek Dam, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

 

[Joeseph]

Upper Nihotupu, Auckland New Zealand:



Canon M6 IR converted with 720nm internal filter

 

[sapearl]

This is flood control dam at Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland Ohio. I believe it is the largest dam East of the Mississippi.

 

[jesko]

Dworshack Dam, Orofino Idaho

 

[ShipleyNW]

The Dalles Dam



Wanapum Dam

 

[jesko]

McNary Dam, Umatilla Oregon

 

[sparker1]

Hoover Dam, Arizona and Nevada border

 

[PietZA]

The Katse dam in Lesotho. "Second largest dam in Africa", I'm not sure according to what metric. The road there is just as impressive.

 

[Tounis]

The Emosson dam in Valais, Switzerland, near the French border. It's got a nice view...
Emosson by Pierre, on Flickr

 

[Lubos-PM]

Höhenburg Stauseen Kaprun, Austria

 

[sparker1]

Glen Canyon Dam, Page, Arizona

 

[Cliff Hilbert]

Glen Canyon Dam, Page, Arizona
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That is terribly low!

 

[sparker1]

That is terribly low!

Has been for years. This was taken 3/14/2015, may not be quite as low now.

 

[sparker1]

Parker Dam, creates Lake Havasu, Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam that crosses the Colorado River 155 miles downstream of Hoover Dam. Built between 1934 and 1938 by the Bureau of Reclamation, it is 320 feet high, 235 feet of which are below the riverbed, making it the deepest dam in the world. Wikipedia

 

[PietZA]

Parker Dam, creates Lake Havasu, Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam that crosses the Colorado River 155 miles downstream of Hoover Dam. Built between 1934 and 1938 by the Bureau of Reclamation, it is 320 feet high, 235 feet of which are below the riverbed, making it the deepest dam in the world. Wikipedia
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Beautiful pictures of an interesting structure.
On a side note; "deepest dam" as used on the Wikipedia page is a bit misleading, don't you think

 

[sparker1]

Beautiful pictures of an interesting structure.
On a side note; "deepest dam" as used on the Wikipedia page is a bit misleading, don't you think

Thanks for your comments. I have no idea if the Wikipedia article is accurate or not. I never rely totally on internet information.

 

[Wilt]

Glen Canyon Dam

710-foot-high (220 m) dam was completed in 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of more than 25 million acre-feet (31 km3).