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Hoover Dam is one of the highest concrete dams in the world. See more »
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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, 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 is part of a large-scale federal program for the development of the Missouri River basin.
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Fort Supply Dam is a federal flood-control project in northwestern Oklahoma.
See more »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.
See more »Glen Canyon Dam
Glen Canyon Dam, in northern Arizona near the Utah border, helps control the flow of the Colorado River.
See more »Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is the largest concrete dam and the greatest single source of water power in North America.
See more »Owyhee Dam
Owyhee Dam, oh WY hee or oh WY ee, is one of the larger concrete arch gravity dams in the world.
See more »Pensacola Dam
Pensacola Dam is a federal flood-control and electric-power project on the Neosho River near Pensacola, Okla.
See more »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.
See more »Roosevelt Dam
Roosevelt, ROH zuh vehlt, Dam is part of the Salt River irrigation project in south-central Arizona.
See more »Saluda Dam
Saluda, suh LOOD uh, Dam is among the 30 largest earth-fill dams in the United States.
See more »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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