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List Of Dams And Reservoirs In Utah
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Utah. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being tall with a storage capacity of at least , or of any height with a storage capacity of . Dams and reservoirs in Utah :''This list is incomplete. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.'' * Arthur V. Watkins Dam, Willard Bay, United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) * Big Sand Wash Dam, Big Sand Wash Reservoir, Moon Lake Water Users * Browne Lake Dam, Brown Lake * Causey Dam, Causey Reservoir, USBR * Currant Creek Dam, Currant Creek Reservoir, USBR * Cutler Dam, Cutler Reservoir, PacifiCorp * Deer Creek Dam and Reservoir, USBR * East Canyon Dam, East Canyon Reservoir, USBR * Echo Dam, Echo Reservoir, USBR * Flaming Gorge Dam, Flaming Gorge Reservoir, USBR * Goshen Dam, Goshen Reservoir, Goshen Irrigation Co. * Grantsville Dam, Grantsville Reservoir * Gunlock Dam, Gunlock Reservoir, Lower Gunlock Reservoir Corp. * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization's work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879. The USGS is a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior; it is that department's sole scientific agency. The USGS employs approximately 8,670 people and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The USGS also has major offices near Lakewood, Colorado, at the Denver Federal Center, and Menlo Park, California. The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world". The agency's previous slogan, adopted on the occasion of its hundredt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo Reservoir
Echo Dam is a dam in Summit County, Utah, standing about north of Coalville and creating Echo Reservoir. The earthen dam was constructed in 1931 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. It has a height of , impounding the water of the Weber River and 836 square miles of the Weber Basin for water storage and agricultural irrigation. Other Weber Basin projects of the Bureau include the upstream Rockport Reservoir Rockport Reservoir, also called Wanship Reservoir, is a reservoir along the Weber River within the Rockport State Park in southwestern Summit County, Utah, United States. __TOC__ Description Rockport Reservoir is located just south of the t .... Echo Dam is owned by the Bureau and operated by the local Weber River Water Users Association. In July 2012, crews began a $50 million seismic retrofit project on the dam to address potentially unstable subsoil conditions. Echo Reservoir has a capacity of . As a recreation area the reservoir offers fishing, boating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Canyon Dam
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, United States, near the town of Page, Arizona, Page. The high dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of more than . The dam is named for Glen Canyon, a series of deep sandstone canyon, gorges now flooded by the reservoir; Lake Powell is named for John Wesley Powell, who in 1869 led the first expedition to traverse the Colorado River's Grand Canyon by boat. A dam in Glen Canyon was studied as early as 1924, but these plans were initially dropped in favor of the Hoover Dam (completed in 1936) which was located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado, Black Canyon. By the 1950s, due to rapid population growth in the seven U.S. and two Mexico, Mexican states comprising the Colorado River Basin, the Bureau of Reclamation deemed the construction of additional reservoirs necessar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Powell
Lake Powell is an artificial reservoir on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona, United States. It is a major vacation destination visited by approximately two million people every year. It is the second largest artificial reservoir by maximum water capacity in the United States behind Lake Mead, storing of water when full. However, Lake Mead has fallen below Lake Powell in size several times during the 21st century in terms of volume of water, depth and surface area. Lake Powell was created by the flooding of Glen Canyon by the Glen Canyon Dam, which also led to the 1972 creation of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a popular summer destination of public land managed by the National Park Service. The reservoir is named for John Wesley Powell, a civil war veteran who explored the river via three wooden boats in 1869. It primarily lies in parts of Garfield, Kane, and San Juan counties in southern Utah, with a small portion in Coconino County in northern Arizona. The northe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolob Reservoir
Kolob Reservoir is a reservoir in southern Utah on Kolob Mountain, created by the 1956 Kolob Creek Dam. There are two entrances to Kolob: one is in the town of Virgin and the other is near Cedar City, Utah Cedar City is the largest city in Iron County, Utah, United States. It is located south of Salt Lake City, and north of Las Vegas on Interstate 15. It is the home of Southern Utah University, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Utah Summer Gam .... From December to May snow covers all the roads, and a snowmobile is required for access. The reservoir is surrounded by private land, used for grazing along as the private property so camping is only allowed near the lake. There are fences marking the start of private land on almost all shores of the reservoir. One can fish the reservoir, but there are special regulations. References External links Utah Division of Wildlife Resources* Reservoirs in Utah Lakes of Washington County, Utah Buildings and structures in Washin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolob Creek Dam
Kolob Creek Dam (National ID # UT00164) is a dam in Washington County, Utah. The earthen dam was constructed in 1956 by the Hurricane Canal Company and Washington Fields Canal Company, with a height of 67 feet, and a length of 686 feet at its crest. It impounds Kolob Creek for flood control and irrigation water storage. The dam is now owned and operated by the local Washington County Water Conservation District. The reservoir it creates, Kolob Reservoir, has a water surface of 249 acres, and a maximum capacity of 6914 acre-feet. Recreation is limited. In the winter, the reservoir is only accessible by snowmobile. The reservoir is surrounded by private land, so camping is only allowed near the lake, and fences mark the start of private land on almost all the reservoir shores. Fishing is allowed under special regulations. Through the 2000s the Conservation District continued to develop the reservoir's size and recreational facilities. Technical climbers in the rugged, downstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordanelle Reservoir
Jordanelle Reservoir is a reservoir in Wasatch County, Utah, United States, just north of Heber City. Jordanelle Reservoir is fed and drained primarily by the Provo River, and is impounded by the Jordanelle Dam, an earthen dam. The construction of the dam resulted in the reroutings of both U.S. Route 40 and U.S. Route 189 (which now run concurrently over the summit of nearby mountains) and the submergence of the towns of Keetley, Hailstone, and Jordanelle. Jordanelle State Park Construction of the dam started on June 27, 1987, and was completed on April 12, 1993. Jordanelle State Park opened on June 29, 1995. Construction of the dam was challenged by several groups. Conservationists wanted to maintain the natural state of the Provo River. Because of this, a large area at the foot of the dam was converted into an artificial wetland. Other groups were concerned that the site was geologically flawed, citing the catastrophic failure of the Teton Dam in Idaho in 1976. Mining in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joes Valley Dam
Joes Valley Dam (National ID # UT10124) is a dam in Emery County, Utah. The earthen dam was constructed between 1963 and 1965 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 192 feet and 750 feet long at its crest. It impounds Seely Creek for irrigation and municipal water supply. The dam is owned by the Bureau and operated by the local Emery Water Conservancy District as part of the Emery County Project, which also includes Huntington North Dam. The reservoir it creates, Joes Valley Reservoir, has a water surface of about two square miles and a maximum capacity of 54,920 acre-feet. Recreation includes fishing, hunting, boating, camping and hiking. The site is surrounded by the Manti-La Sal National Forest. Climate Red Pine Ridge is a SNOTEL 300px, Data from a SNOTEL site in Elko County, Nevada SNOTEL is an automated system of snowpack and related climate sensors operated by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the United States Departmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyrum State Park
Hyrum State Park is a state park and reservoir in Cache County, Utah, United States. Hyrum State Park is in the northeastern part of Utah. It lies at , and consists of surrounding a reservoir. The park is used for fishing, boating, camping, picnicking, hiking, waterskiing, and swimming. The park was named for Hyrum Smith, the brother of LDS church founder Joseph Smith. Hyrum State Park's facilities are located at the northern shore of the reservoir, and include 31 RV campsites, restrooms, showers, a ranger station, boat ramp, dock, and trailheads. The dam creating Hyrum Reservoir was completed in April, 1935, by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. Prior to that, local settlers had dug a canal from the Little Bear River to the town of Hyrum to irrigate their crops. Fish in the reservoir include yellow perch, channel catfish, rainbow trout, largemouth bass The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntington North Dam
Huntington North Dam (National ID # UT10122) is a dam in Emery County, Utah. The earthen dam was constructed between 1964 and 1966 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 74 feet and a length of 1907 feet at its crest. It impounds Huntington Creek for irrigation water storage as part of the Emery County Project. The dam is owned by the Bureau, and operated by the local Emery Water Conservancy District. The reservoir it creates, Huntington Lake, has a normal water surface of 242 acres, and a maximum storage capacity of 5,420 acre-feet. Recreation includes camping, boating, hiking, fishing (for bluegill, sunfish, largemouth bass, and rainbow trout) http://www.recreation.gov/recAreaDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&recAreaId=1187&contractCode=129 and the facilities of the adjacent Huntington State Park Huntington State Park is a state park of Utah, United States, featuring a warm-water reservoir. The state park is located near the town of Huntington. Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunlock Reservoir
Gunlock State Park is a state park of Utah, USA, adjoining the Gunlock Reservoir that impounds the Santa Clara River. The park is located approximately northwest of St George. The reservoir dam was constructed in 1970 for irrigation water and flood control. Gunlock State Park is a primitive area; there are facilities. The park offers camping, swimming, boating, and fishing. The park and reservoir are named after the nearby community of Gunlock. The town was named after William "Gunlock Will" Hamblin, its first settler. Hamblin was a Mormon pioneer born in Ohio who settled in the area in 1857. Gunlock Will was a good hunter and sharpshooter, and was skillful in repairing gunlocks, which are the firing mechanisms for muzzleloaders. The county road to the park is the Old Spanish Trail used by horsemen and raiders from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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