Dossier #773 · GRanD 1626
Hoover Dam
🇺🇸United States · Big Walnut Creek River
Built 1956 · Dam · data quality: Good
Water supply ★Recreation
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 26 m
- Crest length
- 787 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 179 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 10.2 km²
- Average depth
- 17.6 m
- Catchment
- 510 km²
- Avg discharge
- 6,481 L/s
- Elevation
- 272 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 87.6 %
Notes
Built 1956
Provenance
Record 773 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 40.1114, -82.8785.