High Hazard Dams

Loss of human life is likely if the dam fails.

Dam Name	Hazard	Height	Built	Type	State
Winery Lane Dam Mecklenburg	High Hazard	—	—	Earth	North Carolina
Wingate Lake Dam Pulaski	High Hazard	16 ft	1941	Earth	Arkansas
Wings Lake Upper Dam Washington	High Hazard	40 ft	1998	Earth	Missouri
Wings Lower Lake Dam Washington	High Hazard	42 ft	1996	Earth	Missouri
Winnekeag Lake Dam Worcester	High Hazard	21 ft	1878	Masonry	Massachusetts
Winnetonka Lake Dam (Removed) Clay	High Hazard	20 ft	1913	Earth	Missouri
Winona Country Club Lake Dam Montgomery	High Hazard	18 ft	—	Earth	Mississippi
Winona Pond Dam Essex	High Hazard	23 ft	1971	Earth	Massachusetts
Winona Reservoir Powell	High Hazard	40 ft	1959	Earth	Kentucky
Winston Lake Dam Forsyth	High Hazard	—	1919	Concrete	North Carolina
Winston Lake Dam Richmond City	High Hazard	28 ft	—	Earth	Virginia
Winston-Salem Forsyth County Lagoon #1 Dam Forsyth	High Hazard	—	—	Earth	North Carolina
Winston-Salem Forsyth County Lagoon #2 Dam Forsyth	High Hazard	—	—	Earth	North Carolina
Winston-Salem Forsyth County Lagoon #3 Dam Forsyth	High Hazard	—	—	Earth	North Carolina
Winterbrooke Dam Mecklenburg	High Hazard	—	—	Earth	North Carolina
Winter Haven Lake Dam Jefferson	High Hazard	49 ft	1978	Earth	Missouri
Winter Lake Dam Franklin	High Hazard	40 ft	1969	Earth	Missouri
Winterle Road Dam Rutherford	High Hazard	—	—	Earth	North Carolina
Wintonbury Flood Control Site #1 Dam Hartford	High Hazard	23 ft	1963	Earth	Connecticut
Winward (Pete) Utah	High Hazard	—	1907	Earth	Utah
Wirtz Dam Burnet	High Hazard	118 ft	1951	Earth	Texas
Wisecarver Greene	High Hazard	35 ft	1931	Earth	Pennsylvania
Wise Forebay Placer	High Hazard	20 ft	1913	Earth	California
Wish You Enough Dam Neshoba	High Hazard	12 ft	1987	Earth	Mississippi
Wissota Chippewa	High Hazard	68 ft	1917	Gravity	Wisconsin
Wister Dam Le Flore	High Hazard	99 ft	1949	Earth	Oklahoma
Withrow Dam Mecklenburg	High Hazard	—	—	Earth	North Carolina
Witt Lake Wasatch	High Hazard	—	1926	Earth	Utah
Wittmer Road Detention Allegheny	High Hazard	25 ft	1990	Earth	Pennsylvania
W J Ellis Escambia	High Hazard	25 ft	1964	Earth	Alabama
W J Morris Pond Dam Lamar	High Hazard	15 ft	—	Earth	Mississippi
W. Kerr Scott Dam Wilkes	High Hazard	—	1963	Earth	North Carolina
Wm Davis Pond Dam Orangeburg	High Hazard	17 ft	1964	—	South Carolina
Wo Gross Jr Dam McLennan	High Hazard	15 ft	1930	Earth	Texas
Wohltman Lake Dam Montgomery	High Hazard	30 ft	1960	Earth	Missouri
Wolcott Lamoille	High Hazard	48 ft	1920	Concrete	Vermont
Wolf Creek Clearfield	High Hazard	34 ft	1971	Earth	Pennsylvania
Wolf Creek Humphreys	High Hazard	—	1991	Earth	Tennessee
Wolf Creek Union	High Hazard	125 ft	1974	Earth	Oregon
Wolf Creek Dam Russell	High Hazard	—	1951	Gravity	Kentucky
Wolf Creek Dam Summit	High Hazard	43 ft	1926	Concrete	Ohio
Wolf Creek Lake Dam Jackson	High Hazard	—	1955	—	North Carolina
Wolf Creek Lake Dam Anderson	High Hazard	28 ft	1919	Earth	Texas
Wolf Creek Reservoir Schuylkill	High Hazard	73 ft	1909	Earth	Pennsylvania
Wolf Den Dam Passaic	High Hazard	42 ft	1927	Concrete	New Jersey
Wolfden Lake Dam Scioto	High Hazard	27 ft	1936	Earth	Ohio
Wolfeboro Sewage Lagoon Dam Carroll	High Hazard	45 ft	1975	Earth	New Hampshire
Wolfe City Reservoir No 1 Hunt	High Hazard	20 ft	1926	Earth	Texas
Wolfe City Reservoir No 2 Hunt	High Hazard	32 ft	1957	Earth	Texas
Wolfe Farm Cumberland	High Hazard	28 ft	1966	Earth	Pennsylvania