Flood Risk Reduction Dams

17,618 dams in the US serve this purpose.

Dam Name Hazard Height Built Type State
102 River Tributaries Dam C-5 Nodaway High Hazard 36 ft 1975 Earth Missouri
102 Riv Trib Wtrshd Strctr Lt-36 Nodaway High Hazard 30 ft 1975 Earth Missouri
108 Jackson Low Hazard 30 ft 2002 Earth Kansas
111 Wabaunsee Low Hazard 39 ft Earth Kansas
121 (Johnson) Osage Low Hazard 27 ft 2014 Earth Kansas
12-8 Brown Significant Hazard 38 ft 2004 Earth Kansas
131 Shawnee High Hazard 41 ft 2004 Earth Kansas
1-33 Coffey Low Hazard 23 ft Earth Kansas
13415 White Marsh Lane Dam Loudoun Unknown 18 ft Earth Virginia
15-27 Brown High Hazard 25 ft 2003 Earth Kansas
153 Wabaunsee High Hazard 32 ft 2007 Earth Kansas
#154 Wabaunsee Low Hazard 34 ft 2006 Earth Kansas
162 Wabaunsee Low Hazard 45 ft 2006 Earth Kansas
168th & Pioneers Road Dam Seward Low Hazard 21 ft 2016 Earth Nebraska
2008 Hartmann Dam Johnson Low Hazard 25 ft 2008 Earth Nebraska
204th Street Stormwater Detention Basin King Significant Hazard 2001 Earth Washington
205 Douglas Low Hazard 26 ft 2005 Earth Kansas
20776 Dockside Terrace Dam Loudoun Unknown 26 ft Earth Virginia
215 Nemaha Low Hazard 26 ft 2009 Earth Kansas
21st Street Dam Cloud High Hazard 25 ft 2015 Earth Kansas
248th Avenue Dam Will Low Hazard 10 ft 2003 Earth Illinois
28-10b Nemaha Low Hazard 28 ft 2005 Earth Kansas
2nd Broad River Watershed Dam #11-19 Rutherford Low Hazard 1994 Earth North Carolina
2nd Broad River Watershed Dam #11-24b Rutherford Low Hazard 1994 Earth North Carolina
2nd Broad River Watershed Dam #11-25 Rutherford Low Hazard 1994 Earth North Carolina
2nd Broad River Watershed Dam #13 Rutherford High Hazard 1990 Earth North Carolina
2nd Broad River Watershed Dam #14 Rutherford High Hazard 1982 Earth North Carolina
2nd Broad River Watershed Dam #16 Rutherford High Hazard 1979 Earth North Carolina
2nd Broad River Watershed Dam #2 Rutherford High Hazard 1995 Earth North Carolina
2nd Broad River Watershed Dam #22 Rutherford High Hazard 1978 Earth North Carolina
2nd Broad River Watershed Dam #23 Rutherford High Hazard 1979 Earth North Carolina
2nd Broad River Watershed Dam #4 Rutherford Significant Hazard 1987 Earth North Carolina
303 Woodson Low Hazard 16 ft 1972 Earth Kansas
30th Street Detention Basin Ward Significant Hazard 25 ft Earth North Dakota
369 Avenue County Road Dam Hayes Low Hazard 16 ft 1980 Earth Nebraska
40th Street Dentention Basin Pueblo Significant Hazard 21 ft 1998 Earth Colorado
4th Avenue Storm Detention Dam Buffalo High Hazard 19 ft 1989 Earth Nebraska
60th Street Stormwater Detention Dam Snohomish Significant Hazard 1988 Earth Washington
6th Avenue W. Pond #3 Jefferson Low Hazard 29 ft 1974 Earth Colorado
8 - North Sector Butler High Hazard 27 ft 2006 Earth Kansas
#9-249-12 Frog Creek Weston Low Hazard 39 ft 1954 Earth Wyoming
96 & Garnett Regional Detention Facility Tulsa Significant Hazard 20 ft 1988 Earth Oklahoma
96th St & Hoover Road Harvey High Hazard 12 ft 2010 Earth Kansas
A-3 Detention Goshen Low Hazard 30 ft 1969 Earth Wyoming
Aaron Way Detention Basin Dam Clark High Hazard 30 ft 1992 Earth Nevada
Abbey Detention Basin Fremont Significant Hazard 17 ft 2005 Earth Colorado
Abbey Lake Dam Berkshire High Hazard 40 ft 1967 Earth Massachusetts
Abbott Wash Detention Basin Dam Clark High Hazard 27 ft 2008 Earth Nevada
Aberdeen Development North Retention Dam Cuyahoga Significant Hazard 13 ft 1997 Earth Ohio
Abiaca Watershed Structure Y-34-01 Dam Carroll Low Hazard 36 ft 1965 Earth Mississippi