Kingsley Dam is located on the east side of

Lake McConaughy Lake McConaughy is a reservoir on the North Platte River. It is located north of Ogallala, Nebraska, United States, near U.S. Highway 26 and Nebraska Highway 61. The reservoir was named for Charles W. McConaughy, a grain merchant and mayor of Ho ...

in central

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, and is the second largest hydraulic fill dam in the world. It was built as part of the

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project. The dam is tall, long, and wide at its base. On the east side of the dam is Lake Ogallala and on the south side is the Kingsley Hydroelectricity Plant. The

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and Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District are also located in this area. Kingsley Dam, the Kingsley Hydroelectricity Plant, the Morning Glory Spillway, and the Outlet Tower – a large structure near the dam used to release water from the lake – are main visual icons of Lake McConaughy.

External links

Kingsley Dam & Lake McConaughy

References

Dams in Nebraska Hydroelectric power plants in Nebraska Buildings and structures in Keith County, Nebraska United States state-owned dams Dams completed in 1941 Dams on the North Platte River 1941 establishments in Nebraska {{US-dam-stub