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Dossier #773 · GRanD 1626

Hoover Dam

🇺🇸United States · Big Walnut Creek River

Built 1956 · Dam · data quality: Good

Water supplyRecreation
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.