2006-11-15 12:32:04 · 12 answers · asked by Zachary T 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Hoover Dam was tallest when it was constrcted in the early 1930's, but OROVILLE DAM, in Butte County, California, on the Feather River near the city of Oroville, is the tallest dam in the USA today.
2006-11-15 12:34:59 · answer #1 · answered by urbancoyote 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Oroville Dam is the tallest dam in the United States and is in the top twenty in the world for dam height and volume of dam materials. It is an earth-fill dam, stands 770 feet (235 m) tall, is 7,600 feet (2,317 m) long and holds 3,537,577 acre-feet (4.364 km³) of water. Construction started in 1957 and was completed in 1968.
It was not known until 1975, when a magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred near Oroville, that the dam sits atop an active faultline.
Sounds like another Katrina waiting to happen, huh?
2006-11-15 22:11:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oroville Dam Facts:
At 770 feet high, Oroville Dam is the tallest in the United States. It is the main water storage facility for California’s State Water Project, which supplies water to some 23 million municipal and agricultural customers from San Diego to Redding. Owned by the state and operated by the Department of Water Resources (DWR), the project has a generating capacity of 750MW.
Hoover Dam Facts
It is ..
726.4 feet high ..
1,244 feet across at the top ..
660 feet thick at the base ..
45 feet thick at the top ..
weighs 6.6 millions ton ...
can store up 2 years 'average' flow from the Colorado River ...
total storage capacity can be measured in 30,500,000 acre feet . the surface area of Lake Mead is 146,000 acres ...
the maximum water surface elevation of Lake Mead is 1229 FT
the maximum depth of Lake Mead is 590 FT
the length of Lake Mead is 115 miles...
has a power generating capacity of 2.8 million kilowatts...
cost ONLY $49,000,000 to build Hoover Dam...
$165,000,000 to complete the Boulder Canyon Project which includes the Imperial Dam, Hoover Dam and the American
2006-11-15 23:12:51 · answer #3 · answered by Gay Extra 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The tallest dam in America is the Manuel M. Torres dam in Grijalva, Mexica it stands at 261 meters (856 feet). If by America you mean United states, then yes the Oroville dam off the Feather river in California,
2006-11-15 20:45:51 · answer #4 · answered by nickleme10 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Oroville Dam is the highest dam in the USA, 754 feet from bottom to top. Higher even than the Hoover dam, at 726 feet. This reservoir captures water from the Feather River watershed, and is one of the points of origin for the California State Water Project, a network of dams, reservoirs, pumping stations, and 550 miles of canals and pipelines, that distribute water from Northern California to the drier southern parts of the state.
2006-11-15 20:36:38 · answer #5 · answered by Elizabeth G 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think Hoover Dam in Nevada too - I drove out to see it from Las Vegas
An interesting fact - on one side of the dam you are in one time zone - on the otherside you are in a different time zone
2006-11-15 20:38:59 · answer #6 · answered by IDP 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hoover Dam
Lower Colorado
2006-11-15 20:37:00 · answer #7 · answered by iiboogeymanii 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the Hoover dam, Nevada
2006-11-15 20:35:34 · answer #8 · answered by grapelady911 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hoover Dam is 726.4 feet (221.3 meters) tall
2006-11-15 20:35:47 · answer #9 · answered by J~Me 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
hoover dam
2006-11-15 20:35:55 · answer #10 · answered by samantha s 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋