o'shaughnessy dam is the largest dam in the united states.
what's the largest dam in the united states?
o'shaughnessy dam
the oroville dam is the tallest and largest dam in the united states. completed in 1968, it stands high with a crest length (top of the dam) long. over 80 million cubic yards of material were needed to build the oroville dam. there is enough material to build a two-lane highway around the earth in the dam. oroville dam was named by the california society of professional engineers as one of the "seven wonders of engineering" in california in 1967.
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the hindiya barrage on the iraqi euphrates, based on plans by british civil engineer william willcocks and finished in 1913, was the first modern water diversion structure built in the tigris–euphrates river system. the hindiya barrage was followed in the 1950s by the ramadi barrage and the nearby abu dibbis regulator, which serve to regulate the flow regime of the euphrates and to discharge excess flood water into the depression that is now lake habbaniyah. iraq's largest dam on the euphrates is the haditha dam; a earth-fill dam creating lake qadisiyah. syria and turkey built their first dams in the euphrates in the 1970s. the tabqa dam in syria was completed in 1973 while turkey finished the keban dam, a prelude to the immense southeastern anatolia project, in 1974. since then, syria has built two more dams in the euphrates, the baath dam and the tishrin dam, and plans to build a fourth dam – the halabiye dam – between raqqa and deir ez-zor. the tabqa dam is syria's largest dam and its reservoir (lake assad) is an important source of irrigation and drinking water. it was planned that should be irrigated from lake assad, but in 2000 only had been realized. syria also built three smaller dams on the khabur and its tributaries.
euphrates