Hydroelectric Dams

2,099 dams in the US serve this purpose.

Dam Name Hazard Height Built Type State
Stillwater Penobscot Low Hazard 25 ft 1902 Concrete Maine
Stillwater - North Dam Herkimer High Hazard 55 ft 1924 Earth New York
St Louis Gratiot Significant Hazard 21 ft 1901 Gravity Michigan
Stockport Mill Country Inn Water Power Project Morgan High Hazard 20 ft 1891 Concrete Ohio
Stockton Dam Cedar High Hazard 1969 Rockfill Missouri
Stone Dam Penobscot High Hazard 27 ft 1900 Concrete Maine
Stone Dam - Dike 1 Penobscot Low Hazard 10 ft 1900 Earth Maine
Stone Dam - Dike 2 Penobscot Low Hazard 10 ft 1900 Earth Maine
Stone Dam - Dike 3 Penobscot Low Hazard 10 ft 1900 Earth Maine
Stone Dam - Dike 4 Penobscot Low Hazard 9 ft 1900 Earth Maine
Stone Dam - Dike 5 Penobscot Low Hazard 9 ft 1900 Earth Maine
Stone Dam - Dike 6 Penobscot Low Hazard 9 ft 1900 Earth Maine
Stone Dam - Dike 7 Penobscot Low Hazard 9 ft 1900 Earth Maine
Stone Dam - Dike 8 Penobscot High Hazard 9 ft 1900 Earth Maine
Stony Brook Oxford Low Hazard 12 ft 1976 Concrete Maine
Stoughton Dane Low Hazard 11 ft 1916 Earth Wisconsin
Strawberry Tuolumne High Hazard 143 ft 1916 Rockfill California
St. Regis Falls Franklin Low Hazard 10 ft 1947 Timber Crib New York
Strontia Springs Douglas High Hazard 292 ft 1982 Concrete Colorado
Stroudwater River Cumberland Low Hazard 16 ft 1849 Concrete Maine
St. Stephen Powerhouse Dam Berkeley High Hazard 128 ft 1985 Concrete South Carolina
Stump Lake Dam Douglas Low Hazard 17 ft 1953 Earth Oregon
Stump Pond Penobscot Low Hazard 12 ft 1936 Concrete Maine
Sturgeon Falls Marinette Low Hazard 38 ft 1906 Gravity Wisconsin
Sturgeon Falls Dickinson Significant Hazard 37 ft 1905 Concrete Michigan
Sturgeon Pool Dam Ulster High Hazard 109 ft 1922 Concrete New York
Sturgeon River Dam Dickinson Unknown 80 ft 1924 Gravity Michigan
Sturgis St. Joseph High Hazard 25 ft 1913 Buttress Michigan
Stuyvesant Falls Columbia Significant Hazard 13 ft 1900 Masonry New York
Sucker Brook Diversion Addison Significant Hazard 38 ft 1917 Earth Vermont
Sucker Creek Dam Ontonagon Low Hazard 15 ft Earth Michigan
Sugar Camp Oneida Low Hazard 10 ft 1908 Gravity Wisconsin
Sugar Hill Addison High Hazard 60 ft 1931 Earth Vermont
Sugar Island St. Lawrence Low Hazard 35 ft 1925 Gravity New York
Sugar River I Sullivan Significant Hazard 18 ft 1928 Concrete New Hampshire
Sugar River Ii Sullivan Significant Hazard 10 ft 2009 Concrete New Hampshire
Sullivan Lake Pend Oreille High Hazard 25 ft 1923 Gravity Washington
Summersville Dam Nicholas High Hazard 1965 Rockfill West Virginia
Sunapee Sullivan Significant Hazard 15 ft 1856 Masonry New Hampshire
Superior Dam Washtenaw High Hazard 25 ft 1919 Earth Michigan
Superior Falls Iron Low Hazard 28 ft 1917 Gravity Michigan
Superior Falls Iron Low Hazard 28 ft 1935 Gravity Wisconsin
Sutherland Lincoln High Hazard 30 ft 1935 Gravity Nebraska
Swan Falls Ada High Hazard 88 ft 1901 Concrete Idaho
Swan Lake Ketchikan Gateway Borough High Hazard 174 ft 1984 Arch Alaska
Swans Falls Oxford Low Hazard 10 ft 1923 Concrete Maine
Swanton Franklin Low Hazard 19 ft 1920 Concrete Vermont
Sweetwater Sullivan Significant Hazard 33 ft 1922 Concrete New Hampshire
Swift No. 1 Skamania High Hazard 412 ft 1958 Earth Washington
Swift No 2 Hydroelectric Project Cowlitz Low Hazard 106 ft 1959 Earth Washington