The Lahontan Dam is a dam situated on the Carson River in the Carson Desert[2] between Carson City, Nevada and Fallon, Nevada in the United States. Its impoundment is known as the Lahontan Reservoir or Lake Lahontan. It is currently operated by the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District.
The Lahontan Dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Newlands Project. It is an earthen structure, 162 ft (49 m) high by 1,700 ft (520 m) long and contains 733,000 cu yd (560,000 m3) of fill. When it was completed in 1915, it was the largest earth-fill dam in the United States. The reservoir receives water from an area of 1,450 sq mi (3,800 km2) and provides a storage capacity of 295,500 acre⋅ft (364,500 dam3) at spillway crest. An additional 23,900 acre⋅ft (29,500 dam3) can be stored by raising the gates, bringing the total capacity to 319,400 acre⋅ft (394,000 dam3).
The primary purpose of the dam is to impound water for irrigation use. The site also includes hydroelectric generators with a total capacity of 4,000 kilowatts.[3]
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The LahontanDam is a dam situated on the Carson River in the Carson Desert between Carson City, Nevada and Fallon, Nevada in the United States. Its impoundment...
50 near the LahontanDam and off U.S. Route 95 in the town of Silver Springs. A corridor known as Carson River Ranches connects Lahontan with Fort Churchill...
includes the LahontanDam and two diversion dams, providing irrigation water for 55,000 acres (22,000 ha) of cropland mainly in the Lahontan Valley of western...
(24 m) in elevation, resulting in the near-extinction of the Lahontan cutthroat trout. The dam is operated by the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District. It...
Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi) is the largest subspecies of cutthroat trout, and the state fish of Nevada. It is one of three...
Authority. Retrieved 2021-01-28. "Hoover Dam". U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved 2021-01-28. "LahontanDam and Power Station". National Park Service...
the LahontanDam. Here, river flows are augmented by water from the Truckee River and stored in the Lake Lahontan reservoir. Downstream from the dam (in...
Department of the Interior. September 1, 1991. Retrieved January 3, 2016. Lahontan City Carlson, Helen S. (1985). Nevada place names : a geographical dictionary...
the Newlands Projects area. It is located five miles northeast of the LahontanDam on the Carson River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic...
Following the construction of LahontanDam on the Carson River in 1911–1916, the groundwater table rose in the Lahontan Valley downstream of the reservoir...
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Wells Station). The ruins were inundated by the Lahontan Reservoir created by the 1911 LahontanDam and were visible during a 1992 drought. "Williams...
county. …this station also has the use of the Churchill Flight Strip (LahontanDam) built by the Public Roads Administration. … two large free gunnery areas...
the threatened and endangered Pyramid Lake cui-ui (Chasmistes cujus) and Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawii) fishes. The Little Truckee...
Lake and Floating Island Lake, and eventually to the Mount Tallac trail. Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi) is the only trout species...
diversion of approximately one-third of the river flow at the Derby Dam to the Lahontan Valley to irrigate alfalfa and pastures. Truckee River water is also...
stocking the Spooner Lake with trout. Trout species include the native Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi), as well as multiple non-native...
the smaller Lake Mohave – reservoirs on the river created by Hoover Dam and Davis Dam, respectively – and the surrounding desert terrain and wilderness...
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