Debris Control Dams

1,275 dams in the US serve this purpose.

Dam Name	Hazard	Height	Built	Type	State
Lcra Powell Bend Mine Pond 1 Bastrop	Low Hazard	18 ft	1984	Earth	Texas
Lee Detention Otero	Low Hazard	—	1962	Gravity	New Mexico
Lescher Lake Dam Holt	High Hazard	30 ft	—	Earth	Missouri
Libby Brook Aroostook	High Hazard	53 ft	1965	Earth	Maine
Little Dalton Debris Basin Los Angeles	High Hazard	71 ft	1960	Earth	California
Little Rawhide Creek Sediment Campbell	Low Hazard	28 ft	1992	Earth	Wyoming
Little Robber Det. Dam X Carbon	High Hazard	—	1953	Gravity	Wyoming
Little Sage Creek Reservoir Carbon	High Hazard	—	1969	Gravity	Wyoming
Little Sni-A-Bar #22 Lafayette	High Hazard	40 ft	1975	Earth	Missouri
Little Sni-A-Bar #29 Lafayette	Low Hazard	41 ft	1972	Earth	Missouri
Little Sni-A-Bar Wtrsd #27 Dam Lafayette	Low Hazard	35 ft	1977	Earth	Missouri
Little Sni-A-Bar Wtrsd #44 Dam Lafayette	Low Hazard	36 ft	1974	Earth	Missouri
Little Sni-A-Bar Wtrsd #47 Dam Lafayette	Low Hazard	38 ft	1977	Earth	Missouri
Lopez Dam Los Angeles	High Hazard	50 ft	1954	Earth	California
Lost Creek 3 Pepin	Low Hazard	29 ft	1959	Earth	Wisconsin
Lost Creek 4 Pepin	Low Hazard	35 ft	1959	Earth	Wisconsin
Lost Creek 5 Pepin	Low Hazard	28 ft	1959	Earth	Wisconsin
Lost Creek F-3 Newton	High Hazard	39 ft	1977	Earth	Missouri
Lost Creek Watershed Dam F-1 Newton	High Hazard	31 ft	1977	Earth	Missouri
Lost Creek Watershed Dam F-2 Newton	High Hazard	32 ft	1977	Earth	Missouri
Lovins Lake Dam Stoddard	Low Hazard	24 ft	1972	Earth	Missouri
Lowe-Johannes Gsd No 79 Brown	Low Hazard	23 ft	—	Earth	Kansas
Lower Hackett Dam Natrona	Low Hazard	—	1967	Gravity	Wyoming
Lower Sunset Debris Basin Los Angeles	High Hazard	86 ft	1963	Earth	California
Luttrell Farms Dam Lewis	Low Hazard	23 ft	1956	Earth	Missouri
Lynch Dam Davis	Low Hazard	22 ft	2013	Earth	Iowa
Lynx Dam Natrona	Low Hazard	—	1956	Gravity	Wyoming
Madison Paper Corp Log Somerset	Low Hazard	18 ft	1900	Gravity	Maine
Magasco Lake Dam Sabine	Low Hazard	19 ft	1924	Earth	Texas
Maher Lake Dam Sullivan	Low Hazard	30 ft	1975	Earth	Missouri
Malvin Harrington Pond Dam Anson	Low Hazard	—	1991	Earth	North Carolina
Mann Lake Dam Shelby	Low Hazard	22 ft	1977	Earth	Missouri
Marks Lake Dam Lewis	Low Hazard	21 ft	1968	Earth	Missouri
Mark Steinbecker Perry	Low Hazard	28 ft	2002	Earth	Missouri
Marshburn Retarding Basin Orange	High Hazard	27 ft	1998	Earth	California
Maupin Lake Dam Johnson	Low Hazard	19 ft	1976	Earth	Missouri
Mccoy-Waits Lake Dam Atchison	Low Hazard	30 ft	1973	Earth	Missouri
Mckamy Dam Polk	Low Hazard	26 ft	1937	Earth	Tennessee
Mcleods Pond Dam Sumter	Unknown	9 ft	1960	—	South Carolina
Mcmordie Lake Dam Roberts	Low Hazard	18 ft	1965	Earth	Texas
Mcnairycypress Creek #14 McNairy	High Hazard	—	1980	Earth	Tennessee
Mcnairycypress Creek #15 McNairy	High Hazard	—	1982	Earth	Tennessee
Mcnairycypress Creek #16 McNairy	High Hazard	—	1982	Earth	Tennessee
Meadow Lake Sediment Detention Dam Adair	Low Hazard	23 ft	2010	Earth	Iowa
Mechlin Lake Dam Macon	Low Hazard	31 ft	1975	Earth	Missouri
Meek's Dam Lt-84 Harrison	Low Hazard	21 ft	1972	Earth	Missouri
Merenaught Farms Lake Dam Lincoln	High Hazard	25 ft	1975	Earth	Missouri
Metropolitan Avenue Wyandotte	High Hazard	25 ft	2001	Earth	Kansas
Metro West Dam (Sw) Polk	Low Hazard	20 ft	1996	Earth	Iowa
Meyer's Dam 1 Rock Island	Low Hazard	25 ft	1979	Earth	Illinois