Flaming Gorge Dam Flaming Gorge Dam Flaming Gorge Dam is a concrete thin-arch dam on the Green River, a major tributary of the Colorado River, in northern Utah in the United States. Flaming Gorge Dam forms the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which extends into southern Wyoming, submerging four distinct gorges of the Green River. The dam is a major component of the Colorado River Storage Project, which stores and distributes upper Colorado River Basin water. The dam takes its name from a nearby section of the Green River canyon, named by John Wesley Powell in 1869. It was built by the U.S. Bureau of
Mohale Dam of the LHWP, is designed to divert about per second of storage to the Katse Dam reservoir. The water supply meets the needs of the Gauteng region which encompasses the mining and industrial cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria. The regulated flow from the reservoir is per second which is transferred as gravity flow through the interconnecting concrete lined tunnel of length with an internal diameter of . Mohale Dam is categorized as a high dam, and at in height it is said to be the highest rock-fill concrete-face dam (CFRD) in Africa. It is built as an embankment dam with