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Aerial photographs - Missouri - Bagnell Dam

Missouri - Bagnell Dam Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dam/Levee Break ^ Flooding - Lake Delhi Dam, Iowa, July 27, 2010 -- Vi...

The original database describes this as: Title: Damage caused by dam failure in Iowa Production Date: 07/27/2010 Caption: Lake Delhi Dam, Iowa, July 27, 2010 -- View from below Lake Delhi Dam breach shows th... More

Photograph of Douglas Reservoir in Northeast Tennessee

This is a photograph of Douglas Reservoir, part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Dams

The Missouri River mainstem reservoir system enters season well-prepar...

All gates open at Gavins Point Dam, releasing 150,000 cubic feet per second, Aug. 6, 2011.

[Assignment: 48-DPA-10-21-08_SOI_K_Yuma] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempt...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the [Arizona-California border area,] where he toured the Bureau of Reclamation's Yuma, Arizona [Area Office-Yuma Desalting Plan... More

Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River at Lake Cumberland

Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River at Lake Cumberland in Jamestown, Ky., discharges water Feb. 24, 2019. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is increasing the releases today from 45,000 cubi... More

Photograph of Wilson Dam Construction

Wilson Dam Construction Progress Photographs Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oglala Dam Project (Trash Rack on Intake) - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Public domain photograph related to native Americans, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Reservations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Pine Ridge Agency: Miscellaneous Photographs

Lake Darling Dam, northwest of Minot, N.D. releases

Lake Darling Dam, northwest of Minot, N.D. releases 22,000 cubic feet per second, June 27. The corps is currently reducing the daily outflows from the dam by 1,000 to 2,000 per day until the lake reaches its no... More

A tour group watches water spray into the tailwater

A tour group watches water spray into the tailwater at J. Percy Priest Dam during a public tour as part of the 50th Anniversary of J. Percy Priest Dam and Reservoir in Nashville, Tenn., June 29, 2018. The spray... More

Dams - All States, National Forest Service photograph.

Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Dams - All States, National Forest Service photograph.

Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Aerial photographs - Arizona - Roosevelt Dam

Arizona - Roosevelt Dam Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of electric power plant, ... More

White Clay Dam (Stilling Pool) - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Public domain photograph related to native Americans, Reservations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Still River Dam in Danbury, Connecticut, during the Flood of 1955

Original caption: Danbury-130; 10/18/55; Still River. 2nd Still River Dam Historical Photographs of Flood Events

Coulee Corridor Scenic Byway - Grand Coulee Dam

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: An aerial view shows the entire Grand Coulee Dam, both the concrete structure and the water behind. Its enormity is more than a picture ... More

Powerhouse tours planned at Cordell Hull Dam

Cordell Hull Dam is offering free public tours of the powerhouse 9 a.m. Saturday, June 11, and 9 a.m. July 16. Guiding guests through the facilities, Corps of Engineers personnel and volunteers will provide inf... More

Garrison Dam, in North Dakota, saw unprecedented releases

Garrison Dam, in North Dakota, saw unprecedented releases through its structure during the Missouri River flood in 2011. The St. Louis District’s rope access inspection team was called upon to inspect it’s 28 t... More

Flooding - Gilboa, N. Y. , Nov. 8, 2011 -- Repair crews work on the Gi...

The original database describes this as: Title: Gilboa Dam Repair Production Date: 11/08/2011 Caption: Gilboa, N. Y. , Nov. 8, 2011 -- Repair crews work on the Gilboa Dam, after flooding during Hurricane Ire... More

Corps of Engineers offers public access to Cheatham Lock

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is offering public access to Cheatham Navigation Lock located at Cumberland River mile 148.7 in Ashland City, Tenn. (USACE Photo by Leon Roberts)

Ryan Frye, a hydropower maintenance engineer at the

Ryan Frye, a hydropower maintenance engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Operations Division, is the Employee of the Month for July 2014.

As part of the upgrades Lower Granite Lock and Dam

As part of the upgrades Lower Granite Lock and Dam also added a circular cool water spray at the upstream end of Lower Granite Dam adult fish ladder. This temperature regulation system was added to curb the ris... More

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist;

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist; Nathan Rister, fisheries technician; and Matt Combs, fisheries biologist; Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Agency, demonstrate electrofishin... More

A 12-barge tow enters Pickwick Lock in Counce, Tenn.,

A 12-barge tow enters Pickwick Lock in Counce, Tenn., Oct. 24, 2013, during a 75th Anniversary event attended by guests from Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. Pickwick is one of nine Tennessee Valley Authorit... More

Overhead view of the stilling basin with water flow

Overhead view of the stilling basin with water flow exiting the Gathright Dam and moving towards the Jackson River.

Work at the Culvert 16 site on Herbert Hoover Dike

Work at the Culvert 16 site on Herbert Hoover Dike south of Port Mayaca was completed in 2016. Since 2001, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has invested more than $870 million as part of rehabilitation efforts ... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Water Management Center is passing water through Cheatham Dam on the Cumberland River in Ashland City, Tenn., at a rate exceeding 90,000 cubic feet per second... More

Crews prepare the rock foundation Jan. 8, 2019 for

Crews prepare the rock foundation Jan. 8, 2019 for future concrete placement at the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tenn. (USACE photo by Capt. William Keenan)

Water flows through the Lake Darling Dam near Minot,

Water flows through the Lake Darling Dam near Minot, N.D., June 23. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intend to raise the water release from Lake Darling to 28,000 cubic feet per second.

The Robert S. Kerr Powerhouse generates more electricity

The Robert S. Kerr Powerhouse generates more electricity than any other powerhouse in the Tulsa District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Two members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2011

Two members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2011 Post-Flood Performance Assessment team watch sluicing operations at Center Hill Dam July 24, 2012. The team visited several Nashville District project sites... More

A round of storms Sept. 14, 2013, impacted the Cherry

A round of storms Sept. 14, 2013, impacted the Cherry Creek basin causing pool elevations at Cherry Creek reservoir to enter the flood control pool. Cherry Creek peaked at a pool elevation of 5553.4 feet on Sep... More

The Dalles Lock and Dam is located 192 miles upstream

The Dalles Lock and Dam is located 192 miles upstream from the mouth of the Columbia River. It is one of the top ten largest hydropower dams in the United States! In addition to supplying hydropower to the Paci... More

Bulkheads removed at Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock –

Bulkheads removed at Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock – last hurdle in $3 million upgrade: A contractor crews lifts steel bulkheads on the upstream side of the St. Anthony Falls Lock on March 20, a tricky maneuve... More

JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR, Colo. – Photo of the dewatered

JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR, Colo. – Photo of the dewatered stilling basin, March 26, 2019.

Photo Illustration by Jay Anderson of Ice Harbor lock

Photo Illustration by Jay Anderson of Ice Harbor lock and Dam. This congressionally authorized project consists of Ice Harbor Dam, powerhouse, navigation lock, two fish ladders, a removable spillway weir and ... More

Construction crews excavate next to the saddle dam

Construction crews excavate next to the saddle dam at Center Hill Lake Dec. 5, 2017 to prepare for the construction of a roller compacted concrete berm. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)

A photo of a dam on the Cumberland River taken from

A photo of a dam on the Cumberland River taken from the air June 21, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. Members of the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion took several members from t... More

The lower gate area located at the Fort Loudoun Lock

The lower gate area located at the Fort Loudoun Lock on the Tennessee River at Lenoir City, Tenn., Oct. 20, 2010. The lock is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District.

Members of the 200th Red Horse Squadron from the Ohio

Members of the 200th Red Horse Squadron from the Ohio National Guard out of Mansfield are working together with the 139th Battalion Support Brigade from the South Dakota National Guard in providing potable wate... More

Contractors work to install a pipe to re-route water

Contractors work to install a pipe to re-route water in the stilling basin at Foster J. Sayers Dam in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Aug. 19, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Christopher Fincham) The U.S. Army Corps of ... More

J. Edward Roush Lake staff finishes some work in the

J. Edward Roush Lake staff finishes some work in the stilling basin showing the dam at a no-flow state before opening it back up.

[Assignment: 48-DPA-1-11-08_SOI_K_Folsom_BOR] Visit of Secretary Dirk ...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Folsom Dam Overlook [and surrounding area], Folsom, California, [for tours, meetings with] Bureau of Reclamation, [U.S. Army... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-1-11-08_SOI_K_Folsom_Event] Groundbreaking ceremon...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: Groundbreaking ceremony, at the Folsom Dam Overlook, Folsom, Californnia, [launching construction of the Folsom Dam Joint Federal Project, with] Secretary Dirk Kempth... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-10-21-08_SOI_K_Yuma] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempt...

Western Heritage Historic Byway - Swan Falls Dam

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Swan Falls Dam was built in 1901 as the first hydroelectric dam on the Snake River. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Pl... More

Dams - All States, National Forest Service photograph.

Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Dams - All States, National Forest Service photograph.

Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photograph of Wilson Dam Construction

Wilson Dam Construction Progress Photographs Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[France Builds World's Highest Single Vault Dam - Tignes on the Isere]

[France Builds World's Highest Single Vault Dam - Tignes on the Isere] - [FRA-3182 through FRA-3184]

Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway - Kenney Reservoir

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: The Kenney Reservoir provides electricity and recreational opportunities. Location: Rangely, Colorado (40.107° N 108.712° W) Status: P... More

Completion of the Addicks and Barker (Buffalo Bayou,

Completion of the Addicks and Barker (Buffalo Bayou, Texas) Dam Safety Modification Study was a milestone for FY 2014.

A view of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hartwell

A view of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hartwell Dam.

The U.S. Corps of Engineers increased the output of

The U.S. Corps of Engineers increased the output of the Gavins Point Dam spillway to 150,000 cubic feet per second, June 14, 2011. The flow was increased to help regulate the Missouri River due to record snow a... More

Flooding - Garrison Dam, N. D. , July 17, 2011 -- Water being release ...

The original database describes this as: Title: Garrison Dam in North Dakota Production Date: 07/17/2011 Caption: Garrison Dam, N. D. , July 17, 2011 -- Water being release through the Garrison Dam in North ... More

Powerhouse tours planned at Cordell Hull Dam

Cordell Hull Dam is offering free public tours of the powerhouse 9 a.m. Saturday, June 11, and 9 a.m. Saturday, July 16, 2016. Guiding guests through the facilities, Corps of Engineers personnel and volunteers... More

Chad Dahl pushes back and lowers himself onto a hydraulic

Chad Dahl pushes back and lowers himself onto a hydraulic radial gate for inspection at the Wolf Creek Dam in Jamestown, Ky., July 24, 2013. The Special Rope Access Climb team from the Philadelphia District, U.... More

Aerial of the Troy Lock and Dam in Troy, New York.

Mount Morris Dam reservoir water levels rise

Water levels in the reservoir behind (upstream) Mount Morris Dam are rising and the dam is holding back and slowly releasing this water to prevent flooding to areas downstream, including Rochester, Mount Morris... More

Wolf Creek Dam increasing releases to historic levels

Wolf Creek Dam spills on the Cumberland River in Jamestown, Ky., Feb. 22, 2019. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District operates and maintains the project. (USACE photo by Misty Cravens)

Imminent Activation of Arkabutla Lake Dam Spillway

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District notified local authorities and emergency management personnel April 16 that the activation of the spillway at Arkabutla Lake Dam, located 35 miles nor... More

For the first time since February 6, 2019, the water

For the first time since February 6, 2019, the water level Tuttle Creek Lake is approaching conservation – or normal – pool. This has been the longest water storage event ever at the lake lasting about 275 days... More

The dam at Fort Gibson Lake pictured here June 2, 2019.

The dam at Fort Gibson Lake pictured here June 2, 2019. Dams are functioning as designed throughout the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District during the spring 2019 flood event in Oklahoma and Kansas. The... More

Spillway Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tag testing

Spillway Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tag testing occurring at Lower Granite Dam.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District announces that Center Hill Recreation Area, located adjacent to Center Hill Dam, is once again open for public use beginning Friday, May 8, 2020. Center Hill... More

Two members of the U.S. Army’s 7th Engineer Dive Team

Two members of the U.S. Army’s 7th Engineer Dive Team lower the remotely operated vehicle 150 feet into the Kajaki Reservoir, Aug. 15. (USACE Photo)

STEM students tour the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s

STEM students tour the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Melvin Price Locks and Dam in Alton, Ill., during the Saturday Scholars program Feb. 25, 2012. Students rotated to six different stations during their tour a... More

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District electricians

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District electricians at Dale Hollow Dam on the Obey river have began a Sustainability Program Initiative project which includes replacing the contracted local utility pow... More

Ryan Frye, a hydropower maintenance engineer at the

Ryan Frye, a hydropower maintenance engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Operations Division, is the Employee of the Month for July 2014. (USACE photo by Mark Abernathy)

The dam at Fort Gibson Lake pictured here June 2, 2019.

Aerial photo of the Center Hill Auxiliary Dam and roller

Aerial photo of the Center Hill Auxiliary Dam and roller compacted concrete berm in Silver Point, Tennessee, May 11, 2020. The RCC berm reinforces the auxiliary dam, a secondary earthen embankment that fills a ... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District's

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District's Baldhill Dam releases the spring runoff, April 10. The Corps uses the dam to provide controlled releases for flood fighting. The Corps continues to assist l... More

The work platform for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The work platform for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Foundation Remediation Project can be seen on the embankment of Wolf Creek Dam, May 1, 2012. The contractor, Treviicos-Soletanche J.V., ... More

An aerial view of the auxililary lock (right) and the

An aerial view of the auxililary lock (right) and the main lock (left) as work continues on the dewatering project at the Wilson Dam May 20, 2015. The lock is closed to barge traffic, which must use the smaller... More

Members of the public make their way in and out of

Members of the public make their way in and out of Whitney Point Dam’s gatehouse during a rare opportunity to see the inside of the gatehouse as part of the celebration of Whitney Point Dam’s 75th anniversary S... More

Debris can be seen entangled in the Tainter gates at

Debris can be seen entangled in the Tainter gates at Lock and Dam 20 near Canton, Missouri. Debris is extremely common at this site after high water events and cleanup is and immense task.

Steve England and Jake Helminiak of the USACE Philadelphia

Steve England and Jake Helminiak of the USACE Philadelphia District traveled to the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) to participate in workshops, field visits, and to share their expertise with governme... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is advising mariners of Emsworth primary lock chamber closure.

During the late spring of 2017, Corps Water Management

During the late spring of 2017, Corps Water Management personnel directed water to be released from the Harry S. Truman Dam near Warsaw, Mo., for more than a week at 50,000 cubic feet per second. The photo was ... More

Contractors work to install a pipe to re-route water

This is the crumbling Hales Bar Navigation Lock Dec.

This is the crumbling Hales Bar Navigation Lock Dec. 19, 2013, on the bank of the Tennessee River in Jasper, Tenn. Hales Bar Dam opened in 1913 and the project was the first to provide hydropower in the world. ... More

This is Martins Fork Dam in Smith, Ky., May 25, 2011.

(HOUSTON, Texas) – Water is being slowed out of the

(HOUSTON, Texas) – Water is being slowed out of the Addicks Dam as engineers begin closing gates on the Addicks Reservoir here September 7, 2017. It is estimated The Addicks and Barker watersheds averaged abou... More

This is a view of Cordell Hull Lock and Dam from high

This is a view of Cordell Hull Lock and Dam from high above where the switchyard is located above the Cumberland River in Carthage, Tenn., March 6, 2012. A combined team from the Nashville District and the Hyd... More

Aerial view of the Portugues Dam in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Aerial view of the Portugues Dam in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The dam was inaugurated on Feb. 5, by the governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro Garcia Padilla and Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army ... More

Water rushes through the spillway of the Mosul Dam

Water rushes through the spillway of the Mosul Dam in Mosul, Iraq, June 15, 2019. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers remained on the Mosul Dam project site to serve as technical engineers to provide architectural... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and its contractor partner Johnson Brothers put a 1.3 million pound concrete shell into position Aug. 6, 2018 on the riverbed on downstream end of Kentucky Lo... More

Foster J. Sayers Dam in Centre County, Pennsylvania,

Foster J. Sayers Dam in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Aug. 19, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Christopher Fincham) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, is working with contractors to address the dama... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-10-21-08_SOI_K_Yuma] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempt...

Photograph of Wilson Dam Construction

Original caption: Powerhouse Section Showing Stop Log in Place of Mail Units. Wilson Dam Construction Progress Photographs

Photograph of Wilson Dam Construction

Original caption: First Arch Centers for Powerhouse Set in Unit 2. Wilson Dam Construction Progress Photographs

Photograph of Wilson Dam Construction

Original caption: Discharge Through Grillage Water at EL 422.5. Wilson Dam Construction Progress Photographs

[Bort-les-Orgues Dam], Marshall plan, post-war reconstruction of Europ...

[Bort-les-Orgues Dam] - [FRA-2478 through FRA-2518] Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photogra... More

[Kembs - Rhine Valley Dam], Marshall plan, post-war reconstruction of ...

[Kembs - Rhine Valley Dam] - [FRA-2881 through FRA-2889] Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain pho... More

Photograph of Kinzua Dam - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photog...

Original caption: Kinzua Dam from below dam. Historic Photographs Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public d... More

Paul Bunyan Scenic Byway - Cross Lake Dam

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: The white arches of the Cross Lake Dam stretch across the horizon. The US Army Corps of Engineers maintains this area, popular for both ... More

[Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding] Lake Travis, TX, July 10, 200...

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Hills Creek Dam

Hills Creek Dam is one of 14 flood risk management dams managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District electricians

Corps to allow public access to Cheatham Navigation Lock

A barge tow navigates through Cheatham Lock June 6, 2013, in Ashland City, Tenn. The lock is located at River Mile 148.7 on the Cumberland River and is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville Dis... More

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