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The Gatun Dam is an earthen dam across the Chagres River in Panama, near the town of Gatun. The dam, constructed between 1907 and 1913, is a crucial element of the Panama Canal; it impounds the artificial Gatun Lake, which carries ships 33 kilometres (21 mi) of their transit across the Isthmus of Panama. In addition, a hydro-electric generating station at the dam generates electricity which is used to operate the locks and other equipment in the canal.
Construction of the dam was a great engineering achievement, eclipsed only by the parallel excavation of the Culebra Cut; at the time of completion, the dam was the largest earth dam in the world, and Gatun Lake was the largest artificial lake in the world.
The GatunDam is an earthen dam across the Chagres River in Panama, near the town of Gatun. The dam, constructed between 1907 and 1913, is a crucial element...
Panama. It was created June 27, 1913 when the gates of the spillway at GatunDam were closed. The water level was about 14.6 m (48 ft) above sea level...
river in the Panama Canal's watershed. The river is dammed twice, and the resulting reservoirs—Gatun Lake and Lake Alajuela—form an integral part of the...
each end lift ships up to Gatun Lake, an artificial fresh water lake 26 meters (85 ft) above sea level, created by damming up the Chagres River and Lake...
pair at Pedro Miguel lift ships from the Pacific up to Gatun Lake; then a triple flight at Gatun lowers them to the Atlantic side. All three sets of locks...
arm of Lake Gatun). The GatunDam is the main dam blocking the original course of the Chagres River, creating Gatun Lake. The Miraflores dams are an 825-metre...
Canal, which was originally addressed by the construction of GatunDam. Water from the dam's reservoir is also used to generate hydroelectric power and...
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deepened existing channels Raised the maximum operating water level of Gatun Lake Then-Panamanian President Martín Torrijos formally proposed the project...
of the GatunDam across the Río Chagres between 1907 and 1913. Once created, Gatun Lake was the largest man-made lake in the world, and the dam was the...
and dam builders. Government engineers adopted the method when building GatunDam, on which Mulholland was a consultant, in the Panama Canal Zone. In 1914...
planes, arm them with "special bombs", and then send them to attack the GatunDam. After completing the mission, the pilots would fly to a neutral country...
William H. Taft. Hazen specifically reported on the soundness of the GatunDam (an integral structure in the canal system), which he said was constructed...
Panama Canal, completed in 1914, required the construction of the massive GatunDam, about 7.2 miles (11.6 km) upriver from Chagres, permanently sealing off...
region of the Gatun Lake. The Island was created when the waters of the Chagres River were dammed by the GatunDam to create the Gatun lake. When the...
10 miniature bombs and theoretically "destroyed" the spillway of the GatunDam, ending the Fleet Problem. The exercise was widely regarded as a success...
richness in lakes with introduced peacock bass was observed in all of the Gatun-area lakes, regardless of the presence of macrophyte refugia. After initial...
(antimalarial drug) at a labor camp in old Gatun (now covered by 80 feet of rock and earth under GatunDam). It is not surprising he would be hired for...
engineers. The structure include GatunDam, the largest embankment dam in the world at the time, which formed Gatun Lake, then the largest artificial...
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Continental Divide in Panama. The cut forms part of the Panama Canal, linking Gatun Lake, and thereby the Atlantic Ocean, to the Gulf of Panama and hence the...
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Bayano River was dammed in 1976. In terms of surface area, Lake Bayano is the second largest lake in Panama, exceeded only by Lake Gatun. The lake and river...
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