Debris Control Dams

1,275 dams in the US serve this purpose.

Dam Name	Hazard	Height	Built	Type	State
Nucla 3rd Ave Reservoir Montrose	Significant Hazard	13 ft	1940	Other	Colorado
Okie Draw Dam Natrona	Low Hazard	—	1964	Gravity	Wyoming
Oknoname Osage	Low Hazard	20 ft	—	—	Oklahoma
Olin Pond Calcasieu	Low Hazard	9 ft	1954	Earth	Louisiana
Oliver Ranch Dam Grady	Low Hazard	50 ft	—	—	Oklahoma
Olsen Gsd No 54 Brown	Low Hazard	19 ft	2003	Earth	Kansas
Otter Lake Low Flow Dam Macoupin	Low Hazard	6 ft	2008	Rockfill	Illinois
Palisades 1 Dam Eureka	Low Hazard	25 ft	1965	Earth	Nevada
Palisades 2 Dam Eureka	Low Hazard	—	—	Earth	Nevada
Palisades 3 Dam Eureka	Low Hazard	—	—	Earth	Nevada
Palisades 4 Dam Eureka	Low Hazard	—	—	Earth	Nevada
Palomas #7 Luna	Low Hazard	—	1957	Gravity	New Mexico
Palomas Red Hill Detention Luna	Low Hazard	—	1969	Gravity	New Mexico
Parker Delt Lake Dam Pulaski	Low Hazard	25 ft	1948	Earth	Kentucky
Parkman Disposal Johnson	Low Hazard	60 ft	1985	Earth	Wyoming
Parsons Lake Dam Warren	Low Hazard	30 ft	1976	Earth	Missouri
Patterson Farms Lake Dam-Sect 12 Nodaway	Low Hazard	30 ft	1962	Earth	Missouri
Patterson Farms Lake Dam-Sect 23 Nodaway	Low Hazard	30 ft	1960	Earth	Missouri
Peach Bottom Atomic Power York	Low Hazard	34 ft	1973	Rockfill	Pennsylvania
Pederson Gsd No 25 Brown	Low Hazard	28 ft	1956	Earth	Kansas
Pemberton Lake Dam-Sec 22 Cape Girardeau	High Hazard	30 ft	1971	Earth	Missouri
Pemberton Lake Dam-Us Survey 2283 Cape Girardeau	Low Hazard	25 ft	1970	Earth	Missouri
Perkins West Lake Dam Franklin	Low Hazard	28 ft	1970	Earth	Missouri
Pershing Dam El Paso	High Hazard	48 ft	1977	Earth	Texas
Peterson Betlach Group Pierce	Low Hazard	30 ft	1972	Earth	Wisconsin
Pinon Canyon Dam 4 Sandoval	Low Hazard	—	1953	Gravity	New Mexico
Pinon Canyon Dam 6 McKinley	Low Hazard	—	1953	Gravity	New Mexico
Pittsfield Dredge Disposal Pond Dam Pike	Low Hazard	35 ft	1997	Earth	Illinois
Pittsfield Sediment Trap Dam Pike	Low Hazard	11 ft	1997	Earth	Illinois
Pj #6 Detention Dam Socorro	Low Hazard	—	1969	Gravity	New Mexico
Plain Honey Creek 2 Sauk	Low Hazard	36 ft	1975	Earth	Wisconsin
Plain Honey Creek 3 Sauk	Low Hazard	45 ft	1970	Earth	Wisconsin
Plain Honey Creek 4 Sauk	Low Hazard	35 ft	1973	Earth	Wisconsin
Plum Creek 12 Pepin	Low Hazard	36 ft	1969	Earth	Wisconsin
Plum Creek 19 Pierce	Low Hazard	36 ft	1968	Earth	Wisconsin
Plum Creek 2 Pierce	High Hazard	88 ft	1973	Earth	Wisconsin
Plum Creek 3 Pierce	Low Hazard	46 ft	1974	Earth	Wisconsin
Poinsett Site 105 Poinsett	Low Hazard	26 ft	1979	Earth	Arkansas
Poinsett Site 106 Poinsett	Low Hazard	30 ft	1979	Earth	Arkansas
Poinsett Site 111 Poinsett	Low Hazard	31 ft	1981	Earth	Arkansas
Pond No. 3 Sweetwater	Low Hazard	37 ft	1981	Earth	Wyoming
Possum Point Ash Dam #D Prince William	High Hazard	140 ft	—	Earth	Virginia
Possum Point Ash Dam #E Prince William	Low Hazard	40 ft	—	Earth	Virginia
Potsdam - East Dam St. Lawrence	Low Hazard	7 ft	1903	Masonry	New York
Potsdam - West Dam St. Lawrence	Low Hazard	11 ft	1990	Concrete	New York
Private Dam Douglas	Low Hazard	24 ft	1996	Earth	Kansas
Project No. 1570 Butler	Significant Hazard	8 ft	—	Earth	Kansas
Pulsipher Wash Detention Basin Dam Clark	High Hazard	24 ft	2008	Earth	Nevada
Quinn&Fitzgerald Lake Dam Randolph	High Hazard	25 ft	1973	Earth	Missouri
Raciborski Taylor	Low Hazard	17 ft	1972	Earth	Wisconsin