Summary of selected characteristics of large reservoirs

Description

This is a point coverage of dams in the United States and Puerto Rico, which originally was derived from the national inventory of dams data base (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1982). The coverage includes locations of and selected characteristics of approximately 2,700 reservoirs and controlled natural lakes that have normal capacities of at least 5,000 acre-feet or maximum capacities of at least 25,000 acre-feet and that were completed as of January 1, 1988.

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55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XWWH6E
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XWWH6E
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.e331b689-945c-4c08-b221-8e98f24719c4.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XWWH6E
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XWWH6E
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XWWH6E
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XWWH6E

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  • environment
  • reservoirs
  • surface-water
  • puerto-rico
  • dams
  • usgs-e331b689-945c-4c08-b221-8e98f24719c4
  • united-states
  • geoscientificinformation
  • reservoir-storage
  • reservoir-capacity
  • inlandwaters

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