Flood Risk Reduction Dams

17,618 dams in the US serve this purpose.

Dam Name	Hazard	Height	Built	Type	State
Beaverdam Creek WS Str # 17 Hart	High Hazard	38 ft	1968	Earth	Georgia
Beaverdam Creek WS Str # 21 Hart	Low Hazard	32 ft	1970	Earth	Georgia
Beaverdam Creek WS Str # 4 Hart	Low Hazard	29 ft	1972	Earth	Georgia
Beaverdam Creek WS Str # 5 Hart	Low Hazard	28 ft	1969	Earth	Georgia
Beaverdam Creek WS Str # 6 Hart	Low Hazard	30 ft	1969	Earth	Georgia
Beaverdam Creek WS Str # 8 Hart	High Hazard	32 ft	1968	Earth	Georgia
Beaverdam Creek WS Structure # 30 Elbert	Low Hazard	53 ft	1971	Earth	Georgia
Beaver Dam Run Levee Baltimore	Significant Hazard	15 ft	1970	Earth	Maryland
Beaverdam-Warrior Creek WCD Dam 1m Laurens	High Hazard	46 ft	1976	—	South Carolina
Beaverdam-Warrior Creek WCD Dam 2 Laurens	Low Hazard	50 ft	1974	—	South Carolina
Beaverdam-Warrior Creek WCD Dam 33 Laurens	Low Hazard	42 ft	1977	—	South Carolina
Beaverdam-Warrior Creek WCD Dam 4 Laurens	Significant Hazard	38 ft	1974	—	South Carolina
Beaverdam-Warrior Creek WCD Dam 5 Laurens	Low Hazard	51 ft	1980	—	South Carolina
Beaver Lake Dam Sullivan	Low Hazard	7 ft	1940	Earth	New York
Becker Lake Dam Franklin	High Hazard	30 ft	1971	Earth	Missouri
Beckwith Dam Kent	Low Hazard	28 ft	1999	Earth	Michigan
Bedford At Falls River Dam #1 Wake	High Hazard	—	2004	Earth	North Carolina
Bee Brook Detention Dam Middlesex	Low Hazard	11 ft	—	Earth	New Jersey
Bee Canyon Retention Basin Orange	Low Hazard	62 ft	1994	Earth	California
Beecham Lake Cleburne	High Hazard	39 ft	1964	Earth	Alabama
Beech Dam Henderson	High Hazard	44 ft	1963	Earth	Tennessee
Beecher Creek Flood Control Dam Chemung	High Hazard	63 ft	1999	Earth	New York
Beech Fork Dam Wayne	High Hazard	—	1976	Earth	West Virginia
Beechwood Lake (Pa-454) Tioga	High Hazard	63 ft	1963	Earth	Pennsylvania
Bee Jay Watershed Site 12 Pottawattamie	Low Hazard	26 ft	1964	Earth	Iowa
Bee Jay Watershed Site 16 Pottawattamie	Low Hazard	32 ft	1977	Earth	Iowa
Bee Jay Watershed Site 4 Pottawattamie	Low Hazard	31 ft	1977	Earth	Iowa
Behrendt Dam Washington	Low Hazard	39 ft	1945	Earth	Nebraska
Belews Creek Holding Basin Dam Stokes	High Hazard	—	2017	Concrete	North Carolina
Belews Creek Retention Basin Dam Stokes	High Hazard	—	2017	Concrete	North Carolina
Belf Coon Creek 1 Frontier	Low Hazard	12 ft	1950	Earth	Nebraska
Bella Lake West Dam Vermillion	Low Hazard	55 ft	1994	Earth	Indiana
Belle Creek R-1 Goodhue	Significant Hazard	47 ft	1979	Earth	Minnesota
Belle Creek R-2 Goodhue	Significant Hazard	55 ft	1983	Earth	Minnesota
Belle Creek R-4 Goodhue	Significant Hazard	52 ft	1977	Earth	Minnesota
Belle Creek R-5 Goodhue	Low Hazard	37 ft	1983	Earth	Minnesota
Belle Creek R-9 Goodhue	Low Hazard	34 ft	1983	Earth	Minnesota
Belle Creek S-2 Goodhue	Low Hazard	18 ft	1980	Concrete	Minnesota
Belle Creek S-3 Goodhue	Low Hazard	32 ft	1980	Earth	Minnesota
Bellefonte - Yard Drainage Pond Jackson	Low Hazard	12 ft	1988	Earth	Alabama
Belle Isle Station Pond Oklahoma	Low Hazard	12 ft	2001	—	Oklahoma
Bellevue Detention Pond 133 King	Low Hazard	—	1983	Earth	Washington
Bellevue Detention Pond 165 King	Low Hazard	—	1983	Earth	Washington
Bellevue Detention Pond 179 North King	Low Hazard	—	1977	Earth	Washington
Bellevue Detention Pond 197 King	Low Hazard	—	1983	Earth	Washington
Bellingham Airport Sw Detention Pond 3 Whatcom	High Hazard	—	2011	Earth	Washington
Bellwood 2-C Butler	Significant Hazard	50 ft	1993	Earth	Nebraska
Bellwood 3-A Butler	Low Hazard	34 ft	1965	Earth	Nebraska
Bellwood 3-B Butler	Low Hazard	39 ft	1974	Earth	Nebraska
Bellwood 3-C Butler	Low Hazard	22 ft	1966	Earth	Nebraska