standing disused dams

Historic and contemporary dams that are permanently out of service yet still remain standing.

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• Osage Mills Dam — A rural stone mill dam built around 1890 to power a grist mill on Little Osage Creek. The millrace survives only in part, and the dam itsel…
• Sloat's Dam and Mill Pond — Originally created in 1792 by Stephen Sloat and later reinforced, this dam powered a sawmill, tannery, and later textile operations on the…
• Fonte River Dam — Built in 1910, Fonte River Dam was part of the first organized U.S. Navy effort to provide a reliable modern water supply to Hagåtña. The N…
• Kebar Dam — Kebar Dam is an exceptionally early masonry arch dam, generally dated to around 1300. Its small reservoir is no longer used and is mostly f…
• Vajont Dam — One of the world's most infamous disused dams, Vajont is a concrete double-curvature arch dam designed by Carlo Semenza and begun in 1956.…
• Old Croton Dam — Built between 1837 and 1842, the Old Croton Dam was the first substantial masonry dam in the United States and a core element of New York C…
• Geddes Dam — Geddes Dam is a decommissioned hydroelectric barrage on the Huron River. Built in 1919 by Detroit Edison, it was taken out of hydro service…
• Newhalem Creek Diversion Dam — A small run-of-river hydroelectric diversion dating to 1921, built to help power construction of Gorge Dam and the company town at Newhalem…
• Rindge Dam — This thin-arch concrete dam across Malibu Creek opened in 1924 and is associated with landowner May Knight Rindge. Sediment filled the rese…
• Red Bluff Diversion Dam — A concrete gravity diversion dam on the Sacramento River, built in 1962–1964 for irrigation. It is formally decommissioned, and its gates a…