Dossier #27760
MELVIN PRICE LOCKS & DAM
🇺🇸United States · MISSISSIPPI RIVER River · near ALTON
Built 1990 · Dam · data quality: Fair
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Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 23 m
- Crest length
- 518 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 293.6 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 36.2 km²
- Average depth
- 8.1 m
- Catchment
- 445,243 km²
- Avg discharge
- 3,592,776 L/s
- Elevation
- 124 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 0.3 %
Notes
Built 1990
Provenance
Record 27760 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GOODD-NID, year via NID. Coordinates are river-snapped: 38.8700, -90.1535.