Large dams in Canada and the United States that hold back rivers to generate electricity, such as the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. A facility belongs here when its cited article places a hydroelectric dam in North America. It excludes dams on other continents, which have their own groups, and pumped storage stations, which are filed as storage facilities.
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Hoover Dam - Wikipedia
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The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the boundary between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.
Grand Coulee Dam (Wikipedia)
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The Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water.
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