The Delta Project provided for the channels between the delta islands to be dammed against the sea and for roads linking the islands to be built on the dams.
Cotter Dam was the first dam built on the Cotter River; construction on this 18.5 m concrete gravity dam started in 1912 and finished in 1915.
The dam that broke in 1976 was the Teton dam, built on the Snake River just a few months earlier, at a cost of $100m.
In the late 19th century, it was one of the first French towns to have public electricity, thanks to a hydro-electric dam built on the Rhône.
Mirabelle and her brother Alan are two street children, living in a village built on the ruins of an ancient dam, surviving off scraps from the annual salmon run.
A check dam built on the Makhawan River in the central part of the watershed, primarily serves as an irrigation source for adjacent agricultural fields.
For Upper Bonnington, the first dam built on the river, the original goal was to improve navigation between Kootenay Lake and the Kootenay's mouth on the Columbia by drowning the dangerous Bonnigton Falls rapids that also blocked fish migration, and hopefully introducing fish to the upper river by constructing a fish ladder.
The Jozini dam, built on the South African side, floods some land on the Swaziland side and the water is available for use in Swaziland.
Only during the infrequent and occasionally devastating flood periods does runoff water advance downstream past the numerous dams built on the Salt's system.
The major dams built on the Missouri were Fort Peck (near Glasgow, Mont)., Garrison (N.D ., and Gavin's Point, Fort Randall, and Oahe (S.D).
