It is situated in United State. It was completed in the year 1940. It is 6,409 m in length and 76 m in height, it is the largest hydraulically filled dam in the United States , which creates Fort Peck Lake, which is the fifth largest artificial lake in the U.S.
Kariba Dam is the world’s biggest dam based on water storage capacity. It is Located at the former Kariwa (Kariba) Gorge, it has a storage capacity of 185 billion cubic metres of water and a surface area of 5,580km2. The dam is 128m high, 617m in length,
Bratsk Dam in Siberia is located in Russia,It ranks as the second biggest dam in the world. The dam is 125m high and 1,452 m in length, and has a rail line and a highway on its top.
Akosombo dam is located in Ghana, It is the third biggest dam based on water storage capacity. This dam is constructed on the River Volta. It is a rock-fill embankment dam which has a crest length of about 700m and a height of 134m, and involved 12 million cubic metres of surface excavation.
Guri Dam is the world’s fifth biggest dam, with a storage capacity of 135 billion cubic metres and creates the Guri Lake covering 4,000km2. The concrete gravity and embankment dam measures 1,300m in length and 16m in height,
The Aswan High Dam is the sixth biggest dam based on water storage capacity. The dam’s reservoir, Lake Nasser, has a water storage capacity of 132 billion cubic metres. It is 111m in height, 3,830m in length and has a base width of 980m.
The Zeya Dam was built on the Zeya River in the Amur Oblast of Russia, It creates the Zeya reservoir with a storage capacity of 68.42 billion cubic metres, which is the nineth biggest dam based on reservoir capacity. The reservoir covers a surface area of 2,419 km2.The concrete gravity dam has an overall height of 112 m, a crest length of 714.2 m
The Daniel Johnson Dam is also known as Manic 5 Dam. The reservoir having a surface area of 1,973 km2, It is the fourth biggest Dam in the world. It is 1,310.6 m long and 213.97 m high.
W.A.C Bennett Dam was constructed on the Peace River in British Columbia, Canada, It creates the Williston lake. The dam ranks as the seventh largest with a storage capacity of approximately 74 billion cubic metres and covers a surface area of 1,773km2. It has a height of 183 m and crest length of 2,068 m.
The Robert Bourassa Dam impounding the La Grande River in northern Quebec, Canada by creating the Robert-Bourassa Reservoir. It is the world’s tenth biggest dam and has a reservoir capacity of 61.7 billion cubic metres covering a surface area of 2,815km2. The embankment dam is 162 m high and 2,835 m in length.
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