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Why does pennsylvania have nothing listed on this page. I believe that pennsylvania should build a hydro electric dam to lower the expense of electric. does anyone have any info on what PA could do for hydro power. Thanks alot NL wide reciever

email me any info warner_8@steelersfan.net

I think "List of dams and reservoirs in the United States" or "List of dams and their reservoirs in the United States" would be far better titles--ID as a list, and match the format of the content. I'll probably do it sometime if I don't see/hear any objections. Niteowlneils 02:57, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Why does Oklahoma have nothing written here. They have the most of any state —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.251.100 (talk • contribs)

Because you haven't added them yet. --Kbh3^rd talk 00:10, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Number of major dams per state

Don't know if this could be worked into the article, but here is a list of the # of "major" dams per state in 2005 according to the same dataset used to draw that map (source cited on image description page):

Rank	# Dams	ST	Rank	# Dams	ST	Rank	# Dams	ST
1	687	CA	19	169	IL	37	92	SC
2	566	TX	20	168	WA	38	73	ND
3	384	CO	21	165	WV	39	71	MS
4	322	OK	22	162	MT	40	65	CT
5	300	PA	23	161	NE	41	61	NH
6	296	FL	24	155	UT	42	56	NJ
7	280	MO	25	140	WI	43	55	LA
8	244	NY	26	140	ME	44	55	SD
9	217	GA	27	134	WY	45	36	VT
10	216	MN	28	132	NV	46	34	MD
11	211	KS	29	123	MI	47	31	AK
12	209	KY	30	122	TN	48	29	PR
13	186	AR	31	120	AL	49	23	HI
14	185	OH	32	113	ID	50	18	?
15	185	IA	33	105	NM	51	6	RI
16	180	OR	34	105	AZ	52	1	DE
17	174	NC	35	98	IN
18	174	VA	36	96	MA

There are 52 entries because it includes Puerto Rico, and there are 18 dams w/o a state, or for which the data columns got messed up and which confused the automated count I used. That would bear further investigation before putting into the article. In any case, we can now tell the Okies that Oklahoma does not have the most of any state, though it is ranked up there at #5. --Kbh3^rd talk 08:05, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rename proposal

Please see a discussion here regarding the renaming of this article and similar ones.--NortyNort (Holla) 02:59, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

resource

Lake-Be-Gone Woes "Deterioration, Environmental Issues Threaten America's Dams—and Local Economies" November 19, 2011 Wall Street Journal by Jim M Carlton, excerpt ...

Now, as the waters recede, Burlington is joining dozens of other communities across the U.S. that must readjust as dams that once gave birth to new waterways and thriving economies based on tourism, irrigation farming and hydropower are altered or dismantled, reverting landscapes to the way they were decades ago.

99.56.120.136 (talk) 00:39, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Are breached dams dams?

That is, if a dam has been breached, should it still be listed here? Jar354 (talk) 00:32, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think so perhaps with a brief note giving the conditions of the breaching. Dam removal for fish habitat being the most popular right now, at least on the West Coast. —EncMstr (talk) 03:47, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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