List of largest dams in the world

List of largest dams in the world

The following table lists the largest dams in the world by volume of structure. Be aware that data on volume of structure is not as easily available or reliable as data on dam height and reservoir volume.
Name [1] Country Year Structure Height [m] 1995 88 Structure Volume [106 m3] 540 [4] /720 [2] Reservoir Volume [109 m3] 0.35 Type

Syncrude Tailings Dam Mildred [3] MLSB Tarbela Dam Syncrude Tailings Dam Mildred [8] SWSS Fort Peck Dam [9]

Canada

TE

Pakistan Canada

1976 2010

143 40-50

106

[5][6] 119

/152

[7]

13.7 0.25 [4]

TE/ER TE

[4]

United States Turkey

1940

76.4

96

23

TE

Atatrk Dam

[10]

1990

166 13 162 64 138

84.5 78 [4]

48.7 0 [11]

TE/ER TE/ER TE/ER TE TE or TE/ER TE/ER

Flevoland Dyke Guri Dam [12] [13]

Netherlands 1968 Venezuela Canada Pakistan 1963 1967 1967

70.3 65.4 65.4

135 9.4 7.25

Gardiner Dam

Mangla Dam

Oroville Dam

United States United States Tajikistan Russia

1968

230

59.6

4.36

San Luis Dam (B F Sisk Dam)

1967

93

59.6

2.52

TE

Nurek Dam Samara Dam (Kuybyshev Reservoir) Garrison Dam (Lake [9] Sakakawea) Cochiti Dam

1980 1955

300 52

54 54 [4]

10.5 57.3

TE TE or ER

United States United States Egypt Canada

1954

64

50.8

29

TE

1975

76.5

50.2

0.73

TE

Aswan Dam

[14]

1970 1968

111 186

44.3 43.7

157 7.4

TE/ER TE

W. A. C. Bennett Dam (Williston Lake) ASARCO Mission Mine Tailings Dam Fort Randall Dam (Lake Francis [9] Case) Afsluitdijk San Roque Dam

United States United States

1973

30

[15]

40.1

[16]

ER

1953

50.3

38.2

6.7

TE/ER

Netherlands 1932 Philippines 2003

13 200/210

36.5 35

[4]

5.5 0.835

TE/ER TE or ER

[4]

Type: TE - Earth; ER - Rock-fill; PG - Concrete gravity; CFRD - Concrete face rock fill

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References
[1] [2] [3] [4] Talk:List of largest dams in the world#Phantom Dams Talk:List of largest dams in the world#Structure Volume D. Nicol (1994) "The Syncrude Mildred Lake Tailings Dyke Redesign", 18th Int. Congr. Large Dams. Estimate based on height, dimensions from Google Earth and, where available, cross section. Accuracy 15%

[5] "Tarbela Dam (1977) | Structurae" (http:/ / en. structurae. de/ structures/ data/ index. cfm?id=s0003769) (in (German)). En.structurae.de. . Retrieved 2011-02-16. [6] "Tarbela Dam" (http:/ / www. britannica. com/ EBchecked/ topic/ 583418/ Tarbela-Dam). Encyclopdia Britannica. . Retrieved 2011-07-25. [7] "Power Generation" (http:/ / www. wapda. gov. pk/ htmls/ pgeneration-dam-tarbela. html). WAPDA. . Retrieved 2011-02-16. [8] "Microsoft Word - Baseline Report on Fluid Deposits revE" (http:/ / www. ercb. ca/ docs/ products/ TailingsPlans/ Syncrude_2010_BaselineReport. pdf) (PDF). . Retrieved 2011-02-16. [9] http:/ / `www. nwd-mr. usace. army. mil/ rcc/ projdata/ summaryengdat. pdf [10] http:/ / ipac. kacst. edu. sa/ eDoc/ 2006/ 157250_1. pdf [11] Surrounds sunken land in the middle of a lake [12] Encyclopdia Britannica Online (http:/ / www. britannica. com/ EBchecked/ topic/ 249657/ Guri-Dam). Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc.. 2011. . Retrieved 2012-06-25. [13] http:/ / www. swa. ca/ Publications/ Documents/ FS-308. pdf [14] "Embankment dams | Structurae" (http:/ / en. structurae. de/ structures/ stype/ index. cfm?id=1073). En.structurae.de. . Retrieved 2011-02-16. [15] Estimate based on structure volume and dimensions from Google Earth [16] Zero reservoir size because full of tailings

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