Dams Gallery

Beaver - working on beaver dam, late autumn

TOM-1190
Beaver - working on beaver dam, late autumn.
Grand Teton national park, Wyoming, North America
Castor canadensis
Tom & Pat Leeson
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MAB-628

MAB-628
Dam - View of Roxburgh Dam
New Zealand s earliest hydroelectric dam built between 1949 and 1956 on the Clutha river South Island. The eight unit power station now has a capacity of 320 MW.
Mark Boulton

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MAB-573 Dam - view of Clyde Dam and Lake Dunstan

MAB-573
Dam - view of Clyde Dam and Lake Dunstan
New Zealand
opened in 1994 New Zealand's third largest hydroelectric dam and the largest concrete gravity dam with a generation capacity of 400 MW providing 5% of the country's electricity. Its construction which flooded houses and orchards used one million cubic metres of concrete and the design makes it resistant to earthquakes. The dam wall is 100 meters high, 70 meters wide at the base, 10 meters wide at the crest and 490 meters long at the crest.supplies on Clutha River near Clyde New Zealand
Mark Boulton
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