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1. Grand Coulee Dam
The dam on the Columbia river is the largest concrete structure in the United States. Charles Hubbard provides history, photographs and bibliography.
http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/ - 26-06-2002
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Rating: [6.00] Votes: [1056]
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2. Building The Ultimate Dam
Donald Jackson of the History Department, Lafayette College, describes his book on John S. Eastwood and the control of water in the American West. Excerpts and i
http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~jacksond/ultdam.html - 21-04-2003
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Rating: [5.00] Votes: [740]
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3. Hoover Dam: Taming the Colorado River
Sunset Cities gives construction facts and figures, history, photographs and visitor information on this giant dam built in the US Depression years.
http://www.sunsetcities.com/hoover-dam.html - 31-07-2002
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Rating: [5.00] Votes: [1984]
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4. Parker Dam
Guide from Desert USA to the deepest dam in the world, built in the 1930s on the Colorado River. Includes history, photographs and visitor information.
http://www.desertusa.com/colorado/parker_dam/du_parkerdam.html - 12-07-2001
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Rating: [5.00] Votes: [748]
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5. Gibraltar Dam
Historical overview of this dam built in 1920 and designed by Joseph Barlow Lippincott (1864-1942) in the Pacific Southwest, from the United States Department of Agriculture.
http://www.r5.fs.fed.us/heritage/065.HTM - 13-07-2003
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Rating: [4.00] Votes: [406]
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6. Deltaworks
Includes the history of the 1953 flooding in The Netherlands and series of dams created to prevent this from happening again.
http://www.deltawerken.com/ - 26-06-2000
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Rating: [0.10] Votes: [218]
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