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Dossier #1022 · GRanD 1280

Buchanan Dam

🇺🇸United States · Colorado River River

Built 1937 · Dam · data quality: Good

IrrigationHydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
45 m
Crest length
3,349 m
Reservoir capacity
1.2 km³
Reservoir area
80.4 km²
Average depth
15.1 m
Catchment
79,272 km²
Avg discharge
34,336 L/s
Elevation
305 masl
Degree of regulation
111.9 %

Notes

Built 1937

Provenance

Record 1022 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 30.7576, -98.4158.