Debris Control Dams

1,275 dams in the US serve this purpose.

Dam Name	Hazard	Height	Built	Type	State
Upper Gila Valley Site No. 9 Dam Grant	High Hazard	29 ft	1962	Earth	New Mexico
Upper Hackett Dam Natrona	Low Hazard	—	1967	Gravity	Wyoming
Upper Rio Hondo Site No. 1 Dam Lincoln	High Hazard	83 ft	1959	Earth	New Mexico
Upper Stetson Stream Penobscot	Low Hazard	10 ft	1853	Earth	Maine
Upton Wastewater Treatment Weston	Low Hazard	9 ft	1985	Earth	Wyoming
Veterans No. 95 Jackson	Low Hazard	25 ft	1941	Earth	Missouri
Village Walker Creek WS SCS Site 2 Dam Ellis	Low Hazard	27 ft	1968	Earth	Texas
Village Walker Creek WS SCS Site 3 Dam Ellis	Low Hazard	38 ft	1968	Earth	Texas
Village Walker Creek WS SCS Site 4 Dam Ellis	Low Hazard	33 ft	1968	Earth	Texas
Village Walker Creek WS SCS Site 5 Dam Ellis	Low Hazard	38 ft	1963	Earth	Texas
Village Walker Creek WS SCS Site 6 Dam Ellis	Low Hazard	22 ft	1963	Earth	Texas
Village Walker Creek WS SCS Site 7 Dam Ellis	Low Hazard	23 ft	1962	Earth	Texas
Village Walker Creek WS SCS Site 8a Dam Ellis	Low Hazard	28 ft	1963	Earth	Texas
Village Walker Creek WS SCS Site 8 Dam Ellis	Low Hazard	21 ft	1962	Earth	Texas
Waddell Dam Schuyler	Low Hazard	33 ft	1998	Earth	Illinois
Wadham Creek Luzerne	High Hazard	30 ft	1959	Earth	Pennsylvania
Waitman Lake Dam-Sect 30 Carroll	Low Hazard	23 ft	1972	Earth	Missouri
Wamsutter Wastewater Sweetwater	Low Hazard	8 ft	1979	Earth	Wyoming
Warnick Dam Leavenworth	Low Hazard	39 ft	—	—	Kansas
Watkins Lake Dam Grundy	Low Hazard	26 ft	1972	Earth	Missouri
Waubonsie Cr. Watershed Site 11-1 Mills	Low Hazard	71 ft	1977	Earth	Iowa
Wellington Nap B-21 Lafayette	Low Hazard	47 ft	1970	Earth	Missouri
Wellington Nap C-22 Lafayette	High Hazard	36 ft	1970	Earth	Missouri
Wellington Nap D-21b Lafayette	Low Hazard	43 ft	1973	Earth	Missouri
Wellington Nap Watrshed Site H-21 Dam Lafayette	Low Hazard	34 ft	1967	Earth	Missouri
Wellington-Nap Wtrshd F-21 Dam Lafayette	High Hazard	39 ft	1967	Earth	Missouri
Wellington-Nap Wtrshd V-21 Dam Lafayette	Low Hazard	36 ft	1973	Earth	Missouri
We Morris Dam Spartanburg	Low Hazard	25 ft	1967	—	South Carolina
Wenger Gsd No 39 Brown	Low Hazard	27 ft	2003	Earth	Kansas
Werges Lake Dam Montgomery	Low Hazard	22 ft	1968	Earth	Missouri
Wessel Sediment Basin Delaware	Low Hazard	35 ft	2005	Earth	Iowa
West Halfway Detention Dam Graham	Low Hazard	—	—	Gravity	Arizona
West Polk A-10 Polk	Low Hazard	40 ft	1971	Earth	Florida
West Polk A-4 Polk	Low Hazard	24 ft	1961	Earth	Florida
West Polk A-7 Polk	Low Hazard	30 ft	1965	Earth	Florida
West Polk A-8 Polk	Low Hazard	30 ft	1967	Earth	Florida
West Polk A-9 Polk	Low Hazard	36 ft	1968	Earth	Florida
West Polk K-1 Polk	Low Hazard	40 ft	1966	Earth	Florida
West Well Control Dam Cochise	Low Hazard	—	1966	Gravity	Arizona
Wheatheart Feeders Lake Dam Ochiltree	Low Hazard	42 ft	1970	Earth	Texas
Wheaton Dam Davis	Low Hazard	27 ft	—	Earth	Iowa
Wh Heatley Pond Dam Cottle	Low Hazard	24 ft	1986	Earth	Texas
White; H.R. & J.O. Gsd No 66 Brown	Low Hazard	29 ft	1956	Earth	Kansas
White Lake Dam Henry	Low Hazard	25 ft	1964	Earth	Missouri
Whitewater North Site #1 Pennington	Low Hazard	11 ft	2000	Earth	South Dakota
Wilhite Dam Pike	High Hazard	30 ft	1975	Rockfill	Missouri
Willer Lake Dam-Sec 20 Lewis	Low Hazard	17 ft	1970	Earth	Missouri
Willer Lake Dam-Sec 32 Lewis	Low Hazard	17 ft	1972	Earth	Missouri
William Leck Canadian	Low Hazard	30 ft	1978	Earth	Oklahoma
Williams Lake Dam Houston	Low Hazard	18 ft	1975	Earth	Georgia