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Basawakkulama Tank
Basawakkulama Tank (Abhaya Wewa, Abhayavapi), Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka: the first reservoir in the country's recorded history, built by King Pandukabhaya (437–367 BCE), capacity 1,910 acre-feet, still supplying pilgrims and irrigating 916 acres.
Batoka Gorge Dam
The Batoka Gorge Dam is a proposed 2,400 MW hydroelectric dam on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, about 47 km downstream of Victoria Falls.
Beaver dam
A beaver dam, also called a beaver impoundment, is a barrier of branches, mud, and rocks built by beavers across a stream to create a pond.
Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic
Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic: Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) in Brdy Protected Landscape Area built dams on the Klabava in 2021-2024 where a human revitalization project stalled since 2018, saving about 30 million koruna ($1.2 million).
Belo Monte Dam
The Belo Monte Dam (Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte) is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric plant on the Xingu River in Pará, Brazil, with an installed capacity of 11,233.1 MW.
Bhakra Dam
Bhakra Dam (भाखड़ा बांध), also known as Bhakra Nangal Dam, is a 225.55 m high concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Bhandardara Dam
Bhandardara Dam (भंडारदरा धरण), also known as Wilson Dam, is a masonry gravity dam on the Pravara River in Maharashtra, India, completed in 1926 to impound Arthur Lake.
Bhavanisagar Reservoir
Bhavanisagar Reservoir (Tamil: பவானிசாகர் அணை), also called the Lower Bhavani Dam, is an earthen and masonry dam on the Bhavani River in Tamil Nadu, India, built 1948 to 1955.
Bhumibol Dam
Bhumibol Dam (เขื่อนภูมิพล), originally named Yanhee Dam, is a concrete arch dam on the Ping River in Tak Province, Thailand, completed in 1964 as the country's first multi-purpose dam.
Big Tujunga Dam
Big Tujunga Dam is a concrete arch dam on Big Tujunga Creek in Los Angeles County, California, built in 1931 for flood control and groundwater recharge.
Bin el Ouidane Dam
The Bin el Ouidane Dam (French: barrage de Bin el Ouidane) is a concrete arch dam in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, commissioned in 1953 for hydropower and irrigation.
Blåsjø Reservoir
Blåsjø is a reservoir on the Setesdal plateau in southwestern Norway and, with 7.8 TWh of energy content, Norway's largest hydropower reservoir, formed by linking mountain lakes.
Blue Mesa Reservoir
Blue Mesa Reservoir is the largest body of water in Colorado, an impoundment of the Gunnison River near Gunnison created by Blue Mesa Dam in 1966.
Boise River Diversion Dam
The Boise River Diversion Dam is an irrigation dam on the Boise River near Boise, Idaho, completed in 1908 to divert water into the New York Canal.
Bonnet Carré Spillway
The Bonnet Carré Spillway is a flood-control structure in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, that diverts Mississippi River floodwater into Lake Pontchartrain to protect New Orleans.
Bottom outlet (dam)
A bottom outlet, also called a low-level outlet, is a gated conduit through a dam near the reservoir base, used for emergency drawdown, water level control, and sediment flushing.
Boulder Canyon Project
The Boulder Canyon Project is the United States federal undertaking authorized in 1928 to build Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the All-American Canal for irrigation, flood control, and power.
Brahmaputra dam disputes
The Brahmaputra dam disputes are disagreements among China, India, and Bangladesh over hydropower dams and water diversion on the Brahmaputra River, with no binding water-sharing treaty.
Brumadinho dam disaster
The Brumadinho dam disaster was the January 2019 collapse of a Vale iron ore tailings dam in Minas Gerais, Brazil, killing 272 people and polluting the Paraopeba River.
Buford Dam
Buford Dam is a 192-foot earthfill dam on the Chattahoochee River in northern Georgia, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and completed in 1956.
Burrinjuck Dam
Burrinjuck Dam, forming Lake Burrinjuck, is a major dam on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales, Australia, and the main storage for the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.
Buttress dam
A buttress dam, also known as a hollow dam, is a dam in which a thin watertight wall or series of arches is supported by regularly spaced downstream buttresses.
C. Y. O'Connor
C. Y. O'Connor, born Charles Yelverton O'Connor (1843–1902), was an Irish-born civil engineer who, as Engineer-in-Chief of Western Australia, built Fremantle Harbour and the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.
Cahora Bassa Dam
The Cahora Bassa Dam is a 171-meter concrete arch dam on the Zambezi River in Tete Province, Mozambique, generating 2,075 MW and exporting power mostly to South Africa.
Cahora Bassa Dam resettlement
Cahora Bassa Dam resettlement was the forced removal of farming and fishing communities in Mozambique's lower Zambezi valley for the Cahora Bassa Dam, 1972 to 1975.
California State Water Project
The California State Water Project, also called the State Water Project, is a California system delivering Northern California water to 27 million people and 750,000 acres of farmland.
Canadian Dam Association
The Canadian Dam Association (Association canadienne des barrages) is a Canadian not-for-profit association for dam safety, formed in 1997 and publisher of the Dam Safety Guidelines used across Canada.
Cardiff Bay Barrage
The Cardiff Bay Barrage is a 1.1 km barrier across the mouth of Cardiff Bay in south Wales, built from 1994 to 1999 to create a freshwater lake.
Cedars Lock and Dam Historic District
Cedars Lock and Dam Historic District is a National Register district in Little Chute, Wisconsin, with a lock, dam, canal, and lockkeeper's house on the Lower Fox River.
Chashma Barrage
Chashma Barrage is a barrage-cum-reservoir on the Indus River near Chashma village in Mianwali District, Punjab, Pakistan, completed in 1971 and housing a 184 MW hydropower station.