Tailings Dams

1,362 dams in the US serve this purpose.

Dam Name	Hazard	Height	Built	Type	State
Pol37 Polk	Unknown	61 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol38 Polk	Unknown	9 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol39 Polk	Unknown	45 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol40 Polk	Unknown	149 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol41 Polk	Unknown	135 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol42 Polk	Unknown	24 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol43 Polk	Unknown	14 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol44 Polk	Unknown	6 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol45 Polk	Unknown	13 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol46 Polk	Unknown	9 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol47 Polk	Unknown	8 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol48 Polk	Unknown	25 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol49 Polk	Unknown	36 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol50 Polk	Unknown	9 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol51 Polk	Unknown	11 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol52 Polk	Unknown	20 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol53 Polk	Unknown	25 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol54 Polk	Unknown	6 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol55 Polk	Unknown	10 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol56 Polk	Unknown	10 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol57 Polk	Unknown	15 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol58 Polk	Unknown	10 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol59 Polk	Unknown	41 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Pol60 Polk	Unknown	9 ft	—	Earth	Florida
Poly Met Hrf Dam St. Louis	Significant Hazard	111 ft	—	Earth	Minnesota
Polymet-Ltv St. Louis	Significant Hazard	65 ft	1981	Earth	Minnesota
Pond 1 Sweetwater	Low Hazard	47 ft	1981	Earth	Wyoming
Pond 22 Washington	High Hazard	1 ft	—	Earth	Pennsylvania
Pond 2b Solano	Low Hazard	55 ft	1975	Earth	California
Pond # 3 Luzerne	Significant Hazard	45 ft	—	Earth	Pennsylvania
Pond 3 San Joaquin	High Hazard	80 ft	—	Earth	California
Pond #5a San Joaquin	Low Hazard	20 ft	—	Earth	California
Pond # 5 Process Water, Cells A Through D Monterey	Significant Hazard	30 ft	—	Earth	California
Pond C Cumberland	Unknown	10 ft	—	Earth	Pennsylvania
Pond K Amador	Low Hazard	22 ft	2006	Earth	California
Pond No 1 Chester	Low Hazard	71 ft	1970	Earth	Pennsylvania
Pond No 2 Chester	Low Hazard	36 ft	—	Earth	Pennsylvania
Pond No 3 Chester	Low Hazard	28 ft	—	Earth	Pennsylvania
Pond Spc-66 Robertson	Low Hazard	19 ft	2004	Earth	Texas
Pr 1-2 (Peace River) Polk	High Hazard	40 ft	1965	Earth	Florida
Pressnell Maury	Low Hazard	—	1979	Earth	Tennessee
Price Lake Dam At C.P. Mi.296.7 Watauga	High Hazard	36 ft	1964	Earth	North Carolina
Profile Products Number 2 Dam Tippah	Low Hazard	20 ft	2005	Earth	Mississippi
Quarry Pits Alameda	High Hazard	26 ft	1997	Earth	California
Queen Mary Dam Iron	High Hazard	66 ft	1959	Earth	Missouri
Questa Tailings Dam 1 Taos	High Hazard	280 ft	1980	Earth	New Mexico
Questa Tailings Dam 4 Taos	High Hazard	212 ft	1966	Earth	New Mexico
R 1 Dam Choctaw	Low Hazard	36 ft	1999	Earth	Mississippi
Racola Tailings Dam Washington	High Hazard	78 ft	1953	Earth	Missouri
Ragland Slurry Impoundment Mingo	High Hazard	370 ft	—	Earth	West Virginia