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List of reservoirs and dams in the United States
The following is a partial list of reservoirs and dams in the United States:
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Alabama
- Guntersville Dam
- Wheeler Dam
- Wilson Dam
Arizona
- Glen Canyon Dam — Lake Powell
- Mission Tailings
- New Cornelia Tailings , largest US dam by volume
- Theodore Roosevelt Dam
California
see Reservoirs and dams in California
Colorado
- Mount Elbert Forebay Dam
- Vallecito Reservoir
- Horsetooth Dam — Horsetooth Reservoir , built as part of the Colorado Big Thompson project
Georgia
- Clark's Hill Dam — Lake Strom Thurmond
Idaho
- American Falls Reservoir
- Arrow Rock Dam — the highest dam completed in any part of the world in 1915
- Blackfoot Reservoir
- Dworshak Dam — third highest dam in the United States
- Island Park Reservoir
- Palisades Reservoir
- Ririe Reservoir
Kansas
See Lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Kansas
Maryland
- Liberty Reservoir
- Prettyboy Reservoir
- Loch Raven Reservoir
- Conowingo Reservoir
- Deep Creek Lake
- Youghiogheny River Reservoir
- Jennings Randolph Lake
- Triadelphia Reservoir ; Brighton Dam
- Rocky Gorge
Massachusetts
- Winsor Dam — Quabbin Reservoir
- Wachusett Dam — Wachusett Reservoir
Michigan
- Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant, a reservoir used to level electrical production by pumped storage hydroelectricity
Minnesota
Montana
- Fort Peck Dam
- Hungry Horse Dam
Nevada
New Jersey
- Lake Tappan
- Oradell Reservoir
- Wanaque Reservoir
- Woodcliff Lake
New Mexico
- Cochiti Dam
- Elephant Butte Dam
New York
- Mount Morris Dam, on the Genesee River
- DeForest Lake
- Marcy Dam , on Marcy Brook , Adirondacks high peak region, south of North Elba, New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
- Acton Lake
- Caesar Creek Lake
- Clarence J. Brown Reservoir
- Cowan Lake
- Englewood Dam
- Germantown Dam
- Grand Lake St. Marys — Reservoir for the now defunct Miami and Erie Canal
- Huffman Dam
- Lockington Dam
- Taylorsville Dam
- William Harsha Lake
Oregon
- Bonneville Dam — Lake Bonneville (between OR and Washington)
- John Day Dam — Lake Umatilla (between OR and WA)
- McNary Dam — Lake Wallula (between OR and WA)
- The Dalles Dam — Lake Celilo (between OR and WA)
South Dakota
- Big Bend Dam — Sharpe Lake, Fort Thompson
- Fort Randall Dam — Lake Francis Case, Pickstown
- Gavins Point Dam — Lewis and Clark Lake, Yankton
- Oahe Dam — Lake Oahe
Tennessee
Texas
- Buchanan Dam
- Inks Dam
- Longhorn Dam
- Mansfield Dam
- Medina Dam, built in 1912 in Mico, Texas, and is owned and operated by the Bandera-Medina-Atascosa Water Conservation District in Natalia, Texas.
- Starcke Dam
- Tom Miller Dam
- Wirtz Dam
Utah
- Mountain Dell Dam, built between 1917 and 1925
Washington
- Bonneville Dam — Lake Bonneville (between Washington and Oregon)
- Chief Joseph Dam — Rufus Woods Lake
- Elwha Dam — Lake Aldwell
- Glines Canyon Dam — Lake Mills
- Grand Coulee Dam, largest hydroelectricity plant in US — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake
- John Day Dam — Lake Umatilla (between WA and OR)
- McNary Dam — Lake Wallula (between WA and OR)
- Mossyrock Dam — Riffe Lake
- Priest Rapids Dam — Priest Rapids Lake
- Rock Island Dam (unnamed)
- Rocky Reach Dam — Lake Entiat
- Swift Dam — Swift Reservoir
- The Dalles Dam — Lake Celilo (between WA and OR)
- Wanapum Dam — Lake Wanapum
- Wells Dam — Lake Pateros
West Virginia
- Kopperston Tailings
Wyoming
- Shoshone Dam
See also
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