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Hoover Dam is one of the highest concrete dams in the world. See more »

Bonneville Dam

Bonneville, BON uh vihl, Dam lies on the Columbia River about 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Portland, Oregon.

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Fort Peck Dam

Fort Peck Dam, on the Missouri River in northeastern Montana, is one of the largest earth-fill dams in the world.

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Fort Randall Dam

Fort Randall Dam is part of a large-scale federal program for the development of the Missouri River basin.

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Fort Supply Dam

Fort Supply Dam is a federal flood-control project in northwestern Oklahoma.

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Garrison Dam

Garrison Dam, about 77 miles (124 kilometers) north of Bismarck, North Dakota, is part of the United States government's Missouri River Basin development program.

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Glen Canyon Dam

Glen Canyon Dam, in northern Arizona near the Utah border, helps control the flow of the Colorado River.

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Grand Coulee Dam

Grand Coulee Dam is the largest concrete dam and the greatest single source of water power in North America.

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Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam is one of the highest concrete dams in the world.

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Oroville Dam

Oroville, OHR uh vihl, Dam is the highest dam in the United States.

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Owyhee Dam

Owyhee Dam, oh WY hee or oh WY ee, is one of the larger concrete arch gravity dams in the world.

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Pensacola Dam

Pensacola Dam is a federal flood-control and electric-power project on the Neosho River near Pensacola, Okla.

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Rio Grande Project

Rio Grande, REE oh GRAND, Project is a United States federal flood-control, power, and irrigation project that extends along the Rio Grande from Elephant Butte Reservoir in southern New Mexico into western Texas.

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Roosevelt Dam

Roosevelt, ROH zuh vehlt, Dam is part of the Salt River irrigation project in south-central Arizona.

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Ross Dam

Ross Dam was built in a narrow gorge of the Skagit River north of Seattle.

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Saluda Dam

Saluda, suh LOOD uh, Dam is among the 30 largest earth-fill dams in the United States.

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Shasta Dam

Shasta Dam, located on the Sacramento River 9 miles (14 kilometers) northwest of Redding, Calif., is one of the highest concrete dams in the United States.

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